SUPPORT THE WRIGHT LIBRARY PROCEEDS FROM EVERY SALE GOES TO SUPPORT THE WRIGHT LIBRARY. CLICK TO ORDER.         WE PROUDLY SUPPORT THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION       WE PROUDLY SUPPORT THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BUILDING CONSERVANCY     WE PROUDLY SUPPORT FALLINGWATER AND THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY   JAPAN     AUDIOVISUALS    BOOKS & PHOTOGRAPHS    DECORATIVE DESIGNS    FUKUHARA RESIDENCE    HAYASHI RESIDENCE    IMPERIAL HOTEL    JIYU GAKUEN GIRLS' SCHOOL    YAMAMURA RESIDENCE     ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM    CASA BRUTUS    ELVEHJEM    JAPANESE PRINTS     HEMISPHERES    JAPANESE ARCHITECT    ORIENTATIONS    VIEWS / FIGGE ART MUSEUM    AUDIOVISUALS   Date: 2007 Title: Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings and Legacy In Japan (Produced by Facets Video, Chicago) Author: Produced, directed, photographed, and edited by: Severns, Karen; Mori, Koichi Description: DVD. "A meticulous and eminently scholarly look boasting authenticity and intellectual integrity." Chicago Tribune. Frank Lloyd Wright was deeply indebted to Japan for its aesthetic inspiration. This is the story of how he repaid that debt. Wright sought refuge in Japan when he faced public condemnation at home. For six tumultuous years, he struggled to complete the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, an enormous commission that would help turn his career around. During the construction of the hotel, he forged lasting relationships with Japanese architects who went on to alter Japan's cityscapes and to mentor a new generation of architects. Against the backdrop of the most turbulent century in history, Wright's obsession with Japan "and Japan's own obsession with Wright" vividly reminds us that the creative spirit knows no borders." 126 Minutes. Size: 126 Minutes ST#: 2007.76.0516             BOOKS & PHOTOGRAPHS     Date: 1906 Title: Hiroshige: An Exhibition of Colour Prints from the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright (Published by The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago) Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: The Art Institute of Chicago. March the twenty-ninth, Nineteen hundred six. An exhibition catalog listing the prints in the exhibition. Introduction by Frank Lloyd Wright. While in Japan, Wright invested heavily in Japanese Prints as well as other items. One year later Wright exhibited over two hundred Hiroshige woodcut colour prints. He also purchased Japanese paper while in Japan which Wright used for the exhibition catalog. This solo exhibition was a first for Wright and for Hiroshige's work. Soft Cover. (First Edition)  (Sweeney 60) Size: 5.5 x 10 Pages: Pp 12 S#: 0060.00.0405     Date: 1907 Title: Art Institute of Chicago Broadside 1907-1908. Description: Announcement for an Exhibition of Japanese Prints on January 9th, 1908, by Frank Lloyd Wright. "Gallery Tours under the auspices of The Exhibition Committee of the Municipal Art League, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Program - 1907-1908. Second Thursday, at Four O'clock. January Ninth - Exhibition of Japanese Prints . . . . Frank Lloyd Wright." Printed on Laid paper. Size: 4.5 x 7 S#: 0080.27.0315     Date: 1908 Title: The Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Japanese Colour Prints March 5 to March 25 1908.  Catalogue for a major exhibition of 655 Japanese prints held at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Soft Cover)  (Published by The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago) Author: Art Institute of Chicago Description: Committee in charge and major contributors were Clarence Buckingham, Frederick W. Gookin, J. Clarence Webster and Frank Lloyd Wright. Introductory essay by Gookin. It was the largest exhibit of Ukiyo-e prints ever displayed in America. Included 205 Wright prints, 24 illustrations of prints of which Wright owned 7.  Wright designed the exhibition installation for the Art Institute.  (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 132 S#: 0080.02.0304     (Title Page) Date: 1912 Title: The Japanese Print: An Interpretation  (Hard Cover) (Published by The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., Fine Arts Building, Chicago) Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: Tan cover, text printed in dark blue or black, decorative crane design is printed in green. End paper is a thick fibrous paper. Text is printed on rice paper, both sides. Title page is a repeat of the cover, but text and crane appear to be printed in black. Title page verso: Copyright 1912, Ralph Fletcher Seymour Company. Sweeney indicated that three versions were printed by Seymour in 1912. Wright was displease with the first edition and all but a few copies were destroyed.        In 1905, Frank Lloyd Wright toured Japan. In 1906, Wright exhibits his collection of Japanese Hiroshige Prints at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1908, Wright and three other major collectors exhibit their Japanese Prints at the Art Institute of Chicago. It was the largest exhibit of Ukiyo-e prints ever displayed in America. Wright designed the exhibition installation for the Art Institute.        In 1910, Wright published Ausgefuhrte Bauten und Entwurfe von Frank Lloyd Wright, consisting of large unbound plates, 25.2" x 16". In 1911, Seymour published an English version of the introduction, as a seven page booklet, 4.5" x 6". The Japanese Print was the first book written, published and bound as a book by Frank Lloyd Wright .        "By 1912, Wright had become a nationally known expert on Japanese printmaking, well on his way to assembling what Clay Lanaster, a scholar of Japan's influence in the United States, called 'one of the most important collections... in the world.' " Frank Lloyd Wright Essential Texts, Twombly, 2009, pp 135-136.        Ralph Fletcher Seymour wrote, "Frank Lloyd Wright once wrote a monograph entitled "The Japanese Print" which appeared in a tall, thin 35 page book, printed on Japan paper. The first materialization of this essay did not please the author and with characteristic imperativeness he demanded its destruction and the production of a new edition more in accord with his notions. There are a few copies of the first bad lot, which like a batch of unwanted kittens sent out to be eliminated, nevertheless survived. They certainly belong in any Wright collection. " Some Went This Way, 1945, p. 125.        During the Imperial Hotel commission, Wright "functioned as an unofficial dealer during his trips to Japan, buying for his own collection and for others. He personally caused print prices to inflate, where Japanese authorities estimate he spent about $250,000 on prints alone." Robert Kostka, The Prairie School, No 4, 1967.        Wright wrote, "Japanese prints intrigued me and taught me much... Japanese art, I found, really did have organic charter, was nearer to the earth and a more indigenous product of native conditions of life and work therefore more nearly "modern" as I saw it, than any European civilization alive or dead." An Autobiography, 1932, pp. 194. (First Edition) (Sweeney 109) Size: 5.25 x 8.3 Pages: Pp 35 S#: 0109.00.0214     Date: 1917 Title: Antique Colour Prints from the Collection Frank Lloyd Wright  (Soft Cover)  (Published by The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago) Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Arts Club Description: (First Edition)  (Sweeney 137) Size: Pages: Pp 14 S#: 0137.00.1099     Date: Circa 1921 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright visits the Great Budda in Kamakura, Japan, Circa 1921. Description: Construction began on the Imperial Hotel in 1917 and on July 4, 1922 the first section of Imperial Hotel opened. In August 1923 the hotel was complete. Wright made several trips to Japan, including this one when he visited Kamakura, approximately 60 miles South of Tokyo and the Imperial Hotel. In the foreground, Frank Lloyd Wright (far left), Paul Mueller, (center, Wright's construction engineer) and the architect Antonin Raymond (far right). An unidentified man, possibly Endo Arata is in the background. Hand written on verso: "Frank Lloyd Wright in the Orient (left). Mag May 29 / 32." Published in the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, Spring 1995, p.3; Frank Lloyd Wright And the Art of Japan, Meech, 2001, p.158. Size: Original 8 x 10 B&W photograph. S#: 0144.13.0218     Date: 1927 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Japanese Antique Prints  (Soft Cover)  (Published by The Anderson Galleries, New York) Author: Anderson Galleries Description: Sale number 2120. To be sold by order of Bank of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. An auction catalogue, of 346 prints owned by Wright. Forward by Wright.  Original PB List Price "A Priced Copy of this Catalogue may be obtained for One Dollar for each Session of the Sale".  (First Edition)  (Sweeney 187) Size: Pages: Pp 163 S#: 0187.00.0104     Date: 1954 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover) (Published in Japanese by The Shokousha Publishing Co., Inc., Tokyo, Japan) Author: Edited by: Amano, Taro; Higuchi, Kiyoshi; Ikuta, Tutomu; Essay: Prof. Baldinger, Wallace Description: Published in Japanese. Frontispieces, Taliesin West (2), Friedman (1). Section I appears to include introductions, and 29 small B&W photographs with descriptions. . Section II includes 146 plates of Fallingwater, Hanna, Jacobs I, Cloverleaf (Project), Sturges, Pauson, Hartford Resort (Project), Broadacre, Florida Southern College, SC Johnson, Walter, Jacobs II, Friedman, A. Adelman, Pew, Mossberg, David Wright, V.C. Morris, Unitarian Meeting House, Guggenheim Drawings, Price Tower, Mr. & Mrs. Wright. Section III is an essay by Baldinger, including 11 B&W photographs. The book concludes with "The Language of Organic Architecture," 1953, possibly a reprint of Wright's publication "Organic Architecture: Language of Organic Architecture," 1953. Original list price Ą1200. (First Edition) Size: 8.5 x 8 Pages: Pp 158 S#: 0988.00.0515     Date: 1962 Title: Japanese Prints Exhibition (Soft Cover)  (Published by Los Angeles Municipal Art Commission, Los Angeles) Author: Frank Lloyd Wright, L.A. Municipal Art Department Description: Catalog for an exhibition of Wright's Japanese Prints at the L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, from January 10 - Feb. 4, 1962. Also includes a reprint from the 1917 Arts Club of Chicago, Sweeney 137.  (First Edition) (Sweeney 1495) Size: Pages: Pp 16 S#: 1495.00.1102     Date: 1966 Title: A Testament - (Hard Cover Slip Case) (Published by Shokokusha, Tokyo. Translated by Masami and Yoshiko Tanigawa.) Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: Japanese Edition. Frank Lloyd Wright separates this volume into two books. Book One - Autobiography. Unlike other volumes that Wright revised and updates, this does not appear to be a revision of his early "An Autobiography, but a fresh autobiography of his life. Book Two - The New Architecture. "Frank Lloyd Wright presents an illuminating synthesis of the nine great principles upon which he has unremittingly based his lifework. This is the basic account of his creative life and ideas "the Testament of a supreme master of his art." (U. S. Dust jacket.) Inscribed: "To Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Hasbrouck. (From) Masami Tanigawa." Acquired from the estate of Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck. Original cover price Y1400. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1149) Size: 6.25 x 8.75 Pages: Pp 257 S#: 1149.04.1017     Left: Slip Cover Front Right: Slip Cover Back     Boxed Slip Cover Date: 1966/67 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright (Soft Cover with Slip Cover) (Japanese) (According to Sweeney, published by Kajima Kenkyusho or Kajima Institute, Tokyo. Translated by a Japanese friend as: Kajima Institute Publishing Group, Tokyo) Author: Tanigawa, Masami Description: (Sweeney's description: "Not Seen. Cited in the bibliography published by the Oak Park Public Library.") It appears to be a biography on the life of Frank Lloyd Wright. Chapters include: Imperial Hotel Designer; Birth 1867 or 1869; Frubel's Benefits; To Chicago! Sullivan's Office; Chicago; First Golden Era; First Golden Era II; Misfortune, Adversity; Escape from the USA; Second Golden Era II; Light Positioning; Notes about Organic Architecture, Afterward; Reference Book Catalog; List of completed homes and building. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's work. (Side note: Dated by a Japanese friend: 1967.) Inscribed: "To Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Hasbrouck. (From) Masami Tanigawa." Acquired from the estate of Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1644) Size: 5.1 x 7.6 Pages: Pp 215 S#: 1644.00.1017     Date: 1967/1976 Title: F. LL. Wright 1, Contemporary Architects Series (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Bijutsu Shuppan - sha, Tokyo) Author: Photography: Futagawa, Yukio Text: Urabe, Sshizutaro; Amano, Taro Description: First published in 1967. Text is in Japanese and a some English. Number 1, a photographic essay of Frank Lloyd Wright designed Public Buildings. 74 plates, including 13 in color; 23 plans and sections. 68 photographs by Yukio Futagawa. F. LL. Wright 2 was published in 1968. An American edition of this volume was published in 1970, Frank Lloyd Wright, I: Public Buildings. Plated in B&W and color. (Second Edition) Size: 8 x 10.25 Pages: Pp 118 S#: 1680.01.0422     Date: 1968 Title: F. LL. Wright 2, Contemporary Architects Series (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Bijutsu Shuppan - sha, Tokyo) Author: Photography: Futagawa, Yukio. Text: Ikuta, Tsutomu ;Misawa, Hiroshi Description: Text is in Japanese. Number 2, a photographic essay of Frank Lloyd Wright designed private residences. The first, "F. LL. Wright, 1" a study of Wright public buildings, was published in 1967. Also includes a list of buildings in Oak Park and River Forest. Includes 66 plates, some in color. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1722) Size: 8 x 10.25 Pages: Pp 120 S#: 1722.00.0418     Boxed Slip Cover Cover Date: 1967 Title: The Japanese Print: An Interpretation (Hard Cover, Boxed Slip Case) (Published by Horizon Press, New York) Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: Revised Edition. The Japanese Print: An Interpretation was first printed in 1912 by Ralph Fletcher Seymour (S.109). In 1905, Frank Lloyd Wright toured Japan. In 1906, Wright exhibits his collection of Japanese Hiroshige Prints at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1908, Wright and three other major collectors exhibit their Japanese Prints at the Art Institute of Chicago. It was the largest exhibit of Ukiyo-e prints ever displayed in America. Wright designed the exhibition installation for the Art Institute.        Publisher's Note (page 6): "In addition to The Japanese Print: An Interpretation this volume contains Frank Lloyd Wright's other writings on the subject: the accounts of his adventures in pursuit of the Japanese print and his introductions to catalogues of his own collections. Those texts which were edited by Frank Lloyd Wright are here printed in full for the first time from the original versions revised in his own hand; the sources are given in a separate section; and the prints here reproduced are from his personal collection..."        Text: "The unpretentious colored wood-cut of Japan, a thing of significant graven lines on delicate paper which has kissed the color from carved and variously tinted wooden blocks, is helpful in the practice of the fine arts, and may be construed with profit in other life-concerns as great.        It is a lesson especially valuable to the West because, in order to comprehend it at all, we must take a viewpoint unfamiliar to us as a people, and in particular to our artists - the purely aesthetic viewpoint. It is a safe means of inspiration for our artists because, while the methods are true methods, the resultant forms are utterly alien to such artistic tradition as we acknowledge and endeavor to make effective..."         Pages 69-77: "Shibaraku." Frank Lloyd Wright's introductions from the exhibit catalogue, "Antique Colour Prints from the Collection of Frank Lloyd Wright, The Arts Club of Chicago Exhibition, Fine Arts Building. Beginning November Twelve, Ending December Fifteen (1917)." (S.137).        Pages 79-88: "In Trust For Posterity."ť Frank Lloyd Wright's introduction to The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Japanese Antique Prints, a catalogue for the sale of Wright Japanese Prints, held at The Anderson Galleries, New York, January Sith and Seventh, 1927.        Pages 89-96, 115-120: "The Ancient Journal of Japan." Passages from An Autobiography, Wright, 1932.        Pages 135-142: The Pursuit of The Print. From time to time I had collected superb Actor prints: Hosoye“ about eleven hundred Hosoye of the first rank - Shunsho, Shunko, Shunyei. Single sheets, diptychs, triptychs, pentytychs, and several septyptichs " iridian sheets of soft paper stained with soft colors portraying ancient famous actors in classical roles on the ancient Japanese stage. Any collector will know what that collection means. "Wrieto San"ť was already on the map of Tokyo as the most extensive buyer of the fine antique print. Already described to you is what an avocation the pursuit of the rare print made in ancient Yedo, had become to me in Tokyo. The prints extremely rare and expensive, were still going up in price at this time. It was often said“ "It is finished" and "Japan had been raked with a fine-tooth comb for a quarter of a century, so give it up..." From An Autobiography, Wright, 1932.        32 color plates from Frank Lloyd Wright's personal collection (7 on one large folding gatefold). Cover: cream linen stamped in red and gilt, published in a slipcase. Original HC List Price $30.00. Two copies. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1686) Size: Pages: Pp 144 S#: 1686.00.0102, 1686.00.1123     Date: 1967 Title: Oriental Art. Snuff Bottles. Bronzes, Jades. Pottery & Porcelains. Paintings. Furniture & Decorative Objects. (Produced by Parker, Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York) Author: Parker, Bernet Galleries, Inc. Description: Estate of the Late Senator Theodore Francis Green and other Owners. Public Auction December 14 and 15. A total of 499 items, which included 119 items sold by an "Arizona Educational Institution" (The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation). Item [148] "Japanese Carved and Lacquered Statue of Daruma" 22.5 inches tall, pictured on page 19, is clearly pictured in "Frank Lloyd Wright A Biography" Farr, 1961, plate 20, on the top shelf in the Studio at Taliesin. Purchased for $2,100 by Mrs. Mary Griggs Burke (husband was Jackson), a collector of Japanese art. According to a June 16, 2006 Release from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Mrs. Burke's first important purchase of Japanese art occurred in 1956 when she purchased an Edo period screen at auction that was once owned by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Burke collection now has holdings of more than 900 works of art, making it one of the largest privately held collections outside Japan. Her grandfather was Chauncey Wright Griggs (Tacoma, Washington). Chauncey Wright Griggs had a Grandson, Chauncey L. Griggs who Frank Lloyd Wright designed a home for in 1945. Catalog includes 28 photographs. Also includes auction results. Original cover price $1.00. (First Edition) Size: 7 x 10.25 Pages: Pp 92 S#: 1720.05.0110     Date: 1967 Title: The Natural House (Hard Cover Slip Case) (Published by Shokokusha, Tokyo,. Translated by Raku Endo) Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: Japanese Edition. Published in Japanese. This Japanese edition divides this volume in two parts, Book One: 1936-1953; and Book Two: 1954.        From the dust jacket, Horizon Publishing Edition, 1954: When Frank Lloyd Wright turns his attention to one of the most important personal problems now facing practically everyone in our society - it is a time for rejoicing.        The world's greatest architect here meets the urgent problem of suitable shelter for The Family in a democracy, in a magnificent and - as was to be expected - challenging book. Here, presented at last in full detail, is the natural house.        The moderate cost houses described in this book and profusely illustrated with 116 photographs, plans and draw-ings, are houses - of infinite variety for people of limited means - in which living has become for their owners a purposeful new adventure in freedom and dignity.        Original cover price Y2800. (First Edition) Size: 6 x 8.5 Pages: Pp 200 S#: 0992.11.0724     Left: Slip Cover Front Right: Slip Cover Back     Date: 1968 Title: The Living City (Hard Cover Slip Case) (Published by Shokokusha, Tokyo,. Translated by Masami and Yoshiko Tanigawa.) Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: Japanese Edition. In 1930 Wright gave his renowned lecture on The City at Princeton University. In 1932 he published his now classic indictment as "The Disappearing City". Wright continued to work on his thesis and in 1945 republished it as "When Democracy Builds". With this third and final version, "The Living City" he expanded and rewrote it completely. This edition is a translation of the third and final version. Inscribed: "To Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Hasbrouck. (From) Masami Tanigawa." Acquired from the estate of Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck. Original cover price Y1400.   (First Edition) (Sweeney 1218) Size: 6.25 x 8.75 Pages: Pp 295 S#: 1218.06.1017     Left: Front of Slip Case Right: Back of Slip Case     Boxed Slip Cover Cover Date: 1968 Title: Imperial Hotel 1921-67 (Hard Cover, Boxed) (Published by Kajima Institute Publishing Company, Tokyo.) Author: Watanabe, Yoshio Photographer. Text: Naito, Tachu; Akashi, Shindo; Yamamoto, Gakuji Description: Text in Japanese. A photo essay of the Imperial Hotel. 56 illustrations, nine color plates. Inscribed: "To Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Hasbrouck. (From) Masami Tanigawa." Acquired from the estate of Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck. Original list price Y2500. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1731) Size: 10 x 9.5 Pages: Pp 102 S#: 1731.00.1017     Date: 1969 Title: Fine Japanese Prints.  Auction catalog for the Estate of the late Blanche B. McFetridge, Property formerly in the Frank Lloyd Wright collection. November 20-21, 1969.  (Soft Cover)  (Published by Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. New York) Author: Parke-Bernet Galleries Description: Includes preface about Wright and prints. Auction includes 433 prints and catalog includes 36 illustrations. Also included is final bids.  Original SC List Price $3.00, By Mail $4.00. Two copies. (First Edition)  (Sweeney 1771) Size: 7 x 10.25 Pages: Pp 128 S#: 1771.00.0304, 1771.01.0512     Date: 1970 Title: An American Architecture (Hard Cover Slip Case) (Published by Shokokusha, Tokyo,. Translated by Masami and Yoshiko Tanigawa.) Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Ed Kaufmann, Edgar Description: Japanese Edition. "Wright in now universally regarded as one of history's great men - the man has liberated architecture, the man whose work is changing the face of the earth." His building designs " for dwellings and skyscrapers, industrial plants and housing projects, hotels and theatres " have enriched the world beyond measure; hardly a structure is now build anywhere that does not in some way bear the mark of his genius. And "organic architecture," the phrase long used by Mr. Wright to characterize his work, has now become a familiar term throughout the world. Heavily illustrated with photographs and illustrations. Inscribed: "To Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Hasbrouck. (From) Masami Tanigawa." Acquired from the estate of Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck. Original cover price Y1800. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1050) Size: 6.25 x 8.75 Pages: Pp 309 S#: 1050.04.1017     Left: Slip Cover Front Right: Slip Cover Back     Date: 1972 Title: F. L. Wright, Understanding the Yamamura House (Stiff Paper Covers) (Published by The Architectural Institute of Japan.) Author: I) Katsuki; Sakamoto; II) Tanigawa, Masami III) Many authors, including Tanigawa IV) Tanigawa Description: Japanese text. Six chapters related to the Yamamura House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1918.  I. On the Construction of the Yamamura House.  II. About Wright Architecture. Chapter II includes three photographs, Imperial Hotel, Jiyu Gakeun Girls' School, Hayashi Residence.  III. Preservation Problems.  IV. Wright Related Material. (A Bibliography)  V. Japanese Architectural Institute. VI. Includes 15 photographs, 4 blueprints, map, 4 floor plans. Acquired from the estate of Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck. The Tazaemon Yamamura Residence (1918 - S.212) was one of four buildings Frank Lloyd Wright designed in Japan. The others being: The Imperial Hotel (1915 - S.194); Aisaku Hayashi Residence (1917 - S.206); Arinobu Fukuhara Residence (1918 - S.207, destroyed 1923 earthquake); Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School (1921 - S.213). This volume includes a short biography on Wright, as-well-as a bibliography on published books by and about Frank Lloyd Wright, floor plans for each of the four floors, and 25 photographs and illustrations. Acquired from the estate of Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck. Size: 7.25 x 10.25 Pages: Pp 72 S#: 1909.51.1017     Date: 1974 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Research. Modern Architectural History Lecture Material. (Soft Cover) (Published by Nihon University Faculty of Engineering) Author: Tanigawa, Masami Description: Japanese text is hand written. Chapters include: Frank Lloyd Wright; The Industrial Revolution Runs Away; Yamamura House; Imperial Hotel Manager; Manson, The Lean, Lost Years & Significant Years; Yamamura House Memo; Fukuhara House Memo; Odawara Hotel; Motion Picture Theater (Barnsdall); A Bibliographical list of 59 books. Includes 14 photographs and illustrations. Acquired from the estate of Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck.  Size: 7 x 10 Pages: Pp 50 S#: 1963.20.1017     Date: 1976 Title: The World of Frank Lloyd Wright (Japanese) (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Gihodo Publishing Co., Ltd, Tokyo) Author: Tanigawa, Masami: Photography by Masuda, Akihisi Description: Tanigawa wrote in "The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsletter," Jan-Feb 1978: "The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan contains the results of my research from 1966 to 1976, concentrating on Wright's work in Japan. It's purpose is to focus attention on all his projects in Japan including the Imperial Hotel, and to check the authenticity of certain stories about his life and work here. In 1974 the Japanese government designated the Yumamura house an important cultural landmark. This is the most recent building among those so designated, and it illustrates that the greatness of Wright is now being recognized. Until 1974, the Yuma Maura house had been neglected, and even many Japanese architects did not know of its existence. When my university class measured the house along with all other existing Wright buildings in Japan I identified the year it was built and that it remains unaltered. Wright's work described in the new book include the Yuma Maura house, the Fukuhara house, which was destroyed in the 1923 earthquake, the Hayashi house (only the living room still exist), and many projects that were not executed." It is hoped that this book answers questions about the significant Japanese years and that it will foster a deeper appreciation of Wright's design intentions." Also included are many of Wright's homes in the U. S. It divides them into: Eastern States, Prairie, Desert, Pacific Ocean and Japan. Size: 10.25 x 13.1 Pages: Pp 206 S#: 2020.26.0917     Date: 1976 Title: The World of Frank Lloyd Wright (Japanese) (Delux edition, Labeled Box, Slip Cover, Hard Cover DJ, Chappteres are divided with tissue.) (Published by Gihodo Publishing Co., Ltd, Tokyo) Author: Tanigawa, Masami: Photography by Masuda, Akihisi Description: Tanigawa wrote in "The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsletter," Jan-Feb 1978: "The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan contains the results of my research from 1966 to 1976, concentrating on Wright's work in Japan. It's purpose is to focus attention on all his projects in Japan including the Imperial Hotel, and to check the authenticity of certain stories about his life and work here. In 1974 the Japanese government designated the Yumamura house an important cultural landmark.         This is the most recent building among those so designated, and it illustrates that the greatness of Wright is now being recognized. Until 1974, the Yuma Maura house had been neglected, and even many Japanese architects did not know of its existence. When my university class measured the house along with all other existing Wright buildings in Japan I identified the year it was built and that it remains unaltered. Wright's work described in the new book include the Yuma Maura house, the Fukuhara house, which was destroyed in the 1923 earthquake, the Hayashi house (only the living room still exist), and many projects that were not executed. It is hoped that this book answers questions about the significant Japanese years and that it will foster a deeper appreciation of Wright's design intentions." Also included are many of Wright's homes in the U. S. It divides them into: Eastern States, Prairie, Desert, Pacific Ocean and Japan. Size: 10.25 x 13.1 Pages: Pp 206 S#: 2020.54.1223      Top Left: Dust Jacket  Top Right: Hard Cover  Left: Slip Cover  Right: Labeled Box     Date: 1979 Title: Wrightian Architectural Archives Japan. Description: Join us as we breath new life into a lapsed legacy. "One hundred years after Frank Lloyd Wright made his seminal first trip to Japan in 1905, the nonprofit Wrightian Architectural Archives Japan was founded to ensure that his legacy of innovative, organic design would live on... Our goal is to create a living museum and national archives where Wright fans and scholars from around the globe can come together to make new discoveries..." Informational brochure for membership in the organization. Includes ten photographs. Gift from Kathryn Smith. Size: 5.8 x 8.25 Pages: Pp 4 ST#: 1979.29.0811     Date: 1980 Title: Measured Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright In Japan (Soft Cover) (Published by Gurafikku Sha, Tokyo) Author: Tanigawa, Masami Description: Published in Japanese and English. The study of the architectural works of Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan. The introduction includes photographs of Wright's work in Japan. Following the introduction there on four chapters which includes the Hayashi House (1917 - S.206), Yamamura House (1918 - S.212), Motion Picture Theater (1918 project) and the Jiyu Gakuen School (1921 - S.213). Each chapter includes photographs, perspective drawings and measured drawings. Chapter 3 includes photographs of the model for the Motion Picture Theater. Chapter five, Fukuhara House (1918 - S.207) destroyed in 1923 earthquake, includes only two perspective drawings and one photograph. Original list price 2500Ą. (First Edition) Size: 8.25 x 11.75 Pages: Pp 114 ST#: 1980.51.0419     Date: 1980 Title: Utagawa Kuniyoshi. An Exhibition of the Work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) (Soft Cover) (Published by The Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts) Author: Henning, Robert Jr. Description: Published for "An exhibition of the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), based on the Raymond A Bidwell Collection of Japanese Prints at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts Springfield, Massachusetts."        To fully understand Kuniyoshi and his art, one must have a clear picture of the times in which he lived and the forces which molded his character. In 1797, Edo was a bustling city with a population approaching one million. It had grown to these proportions from its beginning as a small fishing village in the 15th century. It became a city in the early years of the 17th century when  Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns, established a military base there in order to be away from the intrigues of the Imperial court in Kyoto. The Emperor had by then become no more than a figurehead; the real power was in the hands of the shogunate. In the days of Ieyasu, the majority of the population was roughly divided into three main classes. First in importance were the Shogun and the provincial lords or daimyo, with the samurai who were their retainers. The Shogun and his vassals ruled the country through the samurai, maintaining peace by force of arms. Next in importance were the farmers who worked the rice fields, providing the lords with their rice revenues, through which they maintained power..."        Note: This volume facilitated the dating of the Japanese Woodblock print "Woman Holding a Vase." The end of the volume identifies publisher's seals, and Kuniyoshi's signatures. Size: 7.25 x 10.5 Pages: Pp 253  (UnPaginated) ST#: 1980.66.1222       Publisher's seals for the Japanese Woodblock print "Woman Holding a Vase." Publisher by Masuda-ya Ginjir.       Utagawa Kuniyoshi's Signature for the Japanese Woodblock print "Woman Holding a Vase." Circa 1832.     Date: 1983 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese Prints: The Collection of Mrs. Avery Coonley (Soft Cover) (Published by The American Institute of Architects Foundation, The Octagon, Washington, D.C. This catalog has been made possible by the Waldron Faulkner Memorial Catalog Fund.) (Note: Mrs. Waldron (Elizabeth Coonley) Faulkner, is the daughter of Avery and Queene Ferry Coonley.) Author: Meech-Pekarik, Julia; Introduction: Stein, Susan R. Description: Catalog for the Exhibition held at The Octagon from April 26 through July 3, 1983. "In 1926, the Bank of Wisconsin foreclosed on Wright's mortgage, taking possession of Taliesin and its contents. To ward of bankruptcy, Wright was forced to sell many of his Japanese prints at auction through the Anderson Galleries in New York City, in 1927. Mrs. Coonley, impelled not only by the beauty of the Japanese prints but by the desire to be of financial assistance to Wright, purchased many of the prints shown in the present exhibition at the Anderson Sale and acquired others from the architect personally..." Includes five photographs, seven reprinted Japanese prints, and a list of 45 Objects in the Exhibition. (First Edition) Size: 4.24 x 12.9 Pages: Pp 14 ST#: 1983.30.0214     Date: 1988 Title: Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. From the collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden (Soft Cover) (Published by SDU Publishers, The Hague) Author: Forrer, Matthi Description: Back cover: The comprehensive corpus of preliminary drawings for prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) which has survived is unique. No other artist in the world of Japanese prints has left us such a large amount of preparatory drawings. Kuniyoshi's graphic oeuvre has, especially in recent times, been the subject of various studies and exhibitions. This attention did not include, however, his preparatory designs for woodblock prints. Yet Kuniyoshi's drawings clearly indicate his working method and his handling of subject matter and composition. They possess a spontaneity not encountered in the prints. Above all they confirm the image of a creative designer with great compositional power, a splendid imagination and wit, qualities only rarely found in the work of his contemporaries. The National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden holds the world's most comprehensive collection of Kuniyoshi's drawings. Matthi Forrer, curator of the Japanese department of this museum, and specialist in the field of Japanese prints, drawings and illustrated books, is the author of this study in which is shown that Kuniyoshi's drawings alone are the authentic records of the artist's intentions, and the only relevant documentation of the creative process preceding the prints on which his fame rests. Size: 9.6 x 8.25 Pages: Pp 146 ST#: 1988.136.1222     Date: 1990 Title: Japanese Prints and Textiles: Phoenix Art Museum. Description: A brochure for two simultaneous exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum. A) "Surimono: Japanese Prints from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives" October 6, 1990 - January 27, 1991. "Early in his century, architect Frank Lloyd Wright formed a large collection Japanese prints. From this collection some 750 surimono survive in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives; 60 of these prints are on view here in their first public showing." B) "Japanese Textiles from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives" October 9, 1990 - January 13, 1991. "This is he first public exhibition of Edo period (1615-1868) textiles and garments purchased by Frank Lloyd Wright during his many visits to Japan, including the time he was supervising the construction of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (1913-22)." Three illustrations including varnished illustration in background of front and back cover. Gift from Kathryn Smith. Size: 4 x 9 Pages: Pp 4 ST#: 1990.85.0711     Date: 1992 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and Hiroshige (Hard Cover) Published by Kyoto Shoin, Co., Ltd, Kyoto, Japan) Author: Introduction: Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks; Essay: Meech, Julia; Edited by Alpha Cubic Gallery Description: Published in English and Japanese. "Introduction to the Publication of Hiroshige's "Edo Meisho Harimaze Zue." In 1987 Mr. Roger Keyes and his wife visited Taliesin West to study and Identify more than 700 surimono that had been stored for over 75 years. In Frank Lloyd Wright's collection they were thrilled to find an almost complete set of Hiroshige" Edo Meisho Harimaze Zue. They made arraignments to be brought to Japan and prepared for an edition of 220 books, containing ten prints each. This volume contains ten prints, each consisting of three to five illustrations, for a total 35 illustrations. Section two includes 21 photographs and illustrations related to Frank Lloyd Wright's work and interest in Japanese prints. (First Edition) Size: 8.5 x 12 Pages: Pp 88 ST#: 1992.142.0322     Date: 1993 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan, The Role of Traditional Japanese Art and Architecture in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright. (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York) Author: Nute, Kevin Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright's admiration for traditional Japanese pictorial art is well known, as is his insistence that neither the art nor the architecture of Japan had any direct formal influence on his won work. This book examines the evidence that, quite apart from their philosophical lessons, certain forms of Japanese art and architecture did in fact have a significant formal impact on Wright's early work, and one which would appear to cast light on his general approach to design. More specifically, the study sets out to clarify the particular nature of Wright's artistic originality by illustrating how he brought together disparate philosophical and formal ideas into entirely new creative syntheses. Eight primary channels of influence, from woodblock prints to publications and individual buildings, are examined in detail, and the evidence of their impact on Wright's work is illustrated through a combination of textual and graphic analyses." (Back Cover)  (First Edition) Size: 8.25 x 12 Pages: Pp 244 ST#: 1993.88.1017     Date: 2000 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan, The Role of Traditional Japanese Art and Architecture in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright. (Soft Cover) (First published in 1993 by E & FN Spook. This edition published by Routledge, London and New York.) Author: Nute, Kevin Description: "Frank Lloyd Wright's admiration for traditional Japanese pictorial art is well known, as is his insistence that neither the art nor the architecture of Japan had any direct formal influence on his won work. This book examines the evidence that, quite apart from their philosophical lessons, certain forms of Japanese art and architecture did in fact have a significant formal impact on Wright's early work, and one which would appear to cast light on his general approach to design. More specifically, the study sets out to clarify the particular nature of Wright's artistic originality by illustrating how he brought together disparate philosophical and formal ideas into entirely new creative syntheses. Eight primary channels of influence, from woodblock prints to publications and individual buildings, are examined in detail, and the evidence of their impact on Wright's work is illustrated through a combination of textual and graphic analyses." (Back Cover)  (First Edition) Size: 8.25 x 11.75 Pages: Pp 244 ST#: 2000.77.1016     Date: 1995 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono  (Hard Cover - DJ) Author: Mirviss, Joan B. Description: Original HC List Price $70.00.  (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 313 ST#: 1995.04.1000     Date: 1995 Title: Measured Drawings of Wright's Japanese Work (Stiff Cover DJ) (Published by Shokousha Publishing Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) Author: Tanigawa, Masami Description: Published in Japanese and English. Translated by Yoshiko Tanigowa and Margo Stipe. "Frank Lloyd Wright is best known in Japan as the architect of the Imperial Hotel. Located in the center of Tokyo, the hotel faced Hibiya Park and was within view of the Imperial Palace compound. When the hotel company announced plans in 1967 to demolish the aging building a concerted effort was mounted to save it. These efforts were in vain, however, and in January 1968, less than half a century after its completion, the Imperial Hotel was completely demolished. The entrance and lobby have been reconstructed, however, at the Meiji-mura, and open air architectural museum in a Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture..." Includes photographs and drawings for: The Imperial Hotel, 1912; Imperial Hotel Annex, 1916; Aisaku Hayashi House, 1917; Odawara Hotel (project), 1917; Arinobu Fukuhara House, 1918; Tazaemon Yamamura House, 1918; Viscount Tadashiro Inoue House (project), 1918; Motion Picture Theater (project, 1918; Baron Shinpei Goto House (project), 1921; Jiyu Gakuen, School of Free Spirit, 1921; United States Embassy (project), 1914; Mihara House (project), 1918. 8.25 x 11.5 (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 110 ST#: 1995.92.0618     Date: 1995 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese Art. March 11 - June 1995. Phoenix Art Museum. Description: "Japanese art and culture played an important role in Frank Lloyd Wright's career. Over his lifetime (1967-1959) he amassed a tremendous collection of Asian art for himself and assisted with the development of other major Japanese print collections... Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese Art gathers together for the first time prints, screens, textiles and ceramics once owned by Wright. As a whole, they provide insight to Frank Lloyd Wright's taste and an opportunity to enjoy Japanese art through his eyes." Includes eight lectures and seminars concerning Wright. Three were held at Taliesin West, and presented by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Penny Fowler and Margo Stipe. Gift from Kathryn Smith. Size: 4.25 x 10.4 Pages: Pp 8 ST#: 1995.56.0711     Date: 1996 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fifty Views of Japan (Soft Cover) (Published by Promegranate Artbooks) Author: Edited by Birk, Melanie Description: (1905 Photo Album)  Original SC List Price $20.00. (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 128 ST#: 1996.11.0199     Date: Circa 2000 Title: Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright under Preservation (1). Description: Folder of five postcards, published by the Frank Lloyd Wright Association, Setagaya, Japan. Architectural renderings by Takashi Satoh. Not Dated. A folder of 10 postcards of the Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School was published in 2003, rendered by Takashi Satoh.         A second set was also published: Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright under Preservation (2). Paul R. Hanna House, Darwin D. Martin House, Frank Lloyd Wright House and Studio, A.D. German Warehouse, Imperial Hotel. Size: Folder: 7.25 x 4.5. Postcards: 5.8 x 3.9. ST#: 2000.102.0624 (A-E)     1) Robie House. Text on verso: “Post Card. Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, Ill., 1909. (Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs.) Frank Lloyd Wright Association, Japan.”  2) Aline Barnsdall House, Hollyhock. Text on verso: “Post Card. Aline Barnsdall House, (Hollyhock) Los Angeles, Cal., 1920 (Cultural Research, Olive Hill Foundation.) Frank Lloyd Wright Association, Japan.”      3) Tazaemon Yamamura House. Text on verso: “Post Card. Tazaemon Yamamura House, Ashiya, Japan, 1924 (Guest House, Yodogawa Steel Works Ltd.) Frank Lloyd Wright Association, Japan.” 4) Fallingwater. Text on verso: “Post Card. Edgar J. Kaufmann House, (Fallingwater) Mill Run, Pa., 1936 (Kaufmann Conservation, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.) Frank Lloyd Wright Association, Japan.”     5) Loren Pope House. Text on verso: “Post Card. Loren Pope House, Mount Vernon, Va., 1940 (Pope-Leighey House, National Trust for Historic Reservation.) Frank Lloyd Wright Association, Japan.”     Date: 2001 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan, The Architect's Other Passion. (Hard Cover DJ) (Published by the Japan Society and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York) Author: Meech, Julia Description: Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, March 29-July 15, 2001, in association with the FLW Foundation. Dust jacket: "This is the untold story of the role played by architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) in the world of Asian art, particularly the art of Japan. It is the saga of Wright's other passion, and of a set of clients who never considered commissioning a building from him. Wright's career as a dealer at one time rivaled his architectural practice in terms of both the attention he devoted to it and his financial gain. This book reveals his intense admiration for some of the most beautiful art in the world, but it is also a tale of rivalry, greed, double-crossing, devious dealings, and acquisition fever..." Original hard cover list price $60.00. (First Edition) Size: 9.25 x 11.25 Pages: Pp 304 ST#: 2001.34.0704     Date: 2001 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan. The Architect's Other Passion. March 28 - July 15, 2001. Description: Brochure for the exhibition held at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, March 29-July 15, 2001, in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. "This exhibition introduces Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959) as collector, teacher, and dealer of Japanese art. It explores Wright's self-described obsession with Japanese art and reveals the historic relationship between America's pioneer modernist and the aesthetics of traditional Japanese design that shaped much of his artistic and intellectual life..." This eight page brochure opens to a full size poster when unfolded. Size: Folded 5.25 x 7.5, unfolded 21 x 15. ST#: 2001.81.0818  Inside     Cover without green wrap-around band. Date: 2000 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright Tour (Soft Cover DJ) (Published by The Japan Architectural Museum, Tokyo, Japan) Author: Hatta, Minoru Description: A record of the 10th anniversary tour of the Travel Plan Co., Frank Lloyd Wright. It appears to document the tours of Wright sites in the United States. Published in Japanese, and includes photographs and hand sketches. Original list price Y950. (First Edition) Size: 6 x 8.25 Pages: Pp 223 ST#: 2000.86.0718     Date: 2001 Title: Who Is Frank Lloyd Wright (Hard Cover DJ, with additional orange band over dust jacket) (Published by Matsudo: Okokusha) Author: Tanigawa, Masami Description: Titled "Furanku Roido Raito Towa Dareka" by Amazon. Possible translation of chapters: 1) Wright Myth is Alive. 2) Real image of Architect Wright. 3) Imperial Hotel Drama of Flowing Space. 4) Wright in Japan. 5) The Future of Wright Buildings . Includes many photographs and illustrations. Original list price Ą1800. Size: 5.4 x 7.75 Pages: Pp 205 ST#: 2001.77.1117     Date: 2005 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architecture of Japanese Prints. October 22, 2005 - January 22, 2006. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (Published by The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, University of California, Los Angeles.) Author: Peter, Carolyn Description: Catalog for the exhibition held at the Hammer Museum of Art. "Late in life, the legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) reminisced with group of apprentices at Taliesin: "I remember when I first met the Japanese prints. The art had a great influence on my feelings and thinking... When I saw the print and I saw the elimination of the insignificant and simplicity of vision, together with the sense of rhythm and the importance of design, I began to see nature in a totally different way."  Included one photograph and five Japanese prints. (First Edition) Gift from Kathryn Smith. Size: 7.75 x 9 Pages: Pp 6 ST#: 2005.30.0711     Date: 2023 Title: The Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the World (Soft Cover) (Published by Kajima Institute Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) Author: Gray, Jennifer; Oshima, Ken Tadashi; Essays: Mizukami, Yutaka; Tanaka, Atsuko; Tane, Tsuyoshi; Skjonsberg, Matthew Description: Published in Japanese and English. Official catalogue, published in conjunction with the exhibition “The Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the World.” October 21 - December 24, 2023: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art; January 11 - March 10, 2024: Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art; March 20 - May 12, 2024: Aomori Museum of Art Organizers.        Foreword: We are pleased to present this retrospective of the architectural work by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), known as one of the great masters of modern architecture. This is the first such exhibition to be held in Japan in twenty-six years. Wright, an advocate of "organic architecture" in which nature and humans coexisted, left a magnificent legacy including Fallingwater and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as one of the greatest American architects. The tremendous structures he created during a time of ongoing cultural and technological change feature vibrant ornament and distinctive forms, and demonstrate the innovative use of materials and construction methods. Wright's true acumen is evident in his futuristic vision expressed through architecture. Japan is the only country outside of the United States fortunate to have surviving buildings designed by Wright. It was also the country he had extraordinarily close ties with, not only as an architect but also as an avid ukiyo-e collector and dealer... (First Edition) Size: 7.25 x 10.1 Pages: Pp 254 ST#: 2023.28.0724             DECORATIVE DESIGNS   Date: 1908 Title: 1908 Japanese Print Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago. Description: Wright loaned over two hundred prints to an extensive exhibition of Japanese Colour Prints from March 5-25, 1908, at The Art Institute of Chicago, titled A Loan Exhibition of Japanese Colour Prints. The committee in charge, and major contributors, were Clarence Buckingham, Frederick W. Gookin, J. Clarence Webster and Frank Lloyd Wright. It was the largest exhibit of Ukiyo-e prints ever displayed in America. Wright designed the exhibition installation for the Art Institute. Wright's display consisted of a long horizontal panel suspended above the ground, held up on each end by a pair of vertical pedestals. Included with the designs for the exhibition was a Japanese Print Easel or Stand. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago. For more information see our Wright Study on the Japanese Print Stand. Size: 10 x 6.5 B&W print. S#: 0085.16.1211         Date: 1908 Title: 1908 Japanese Print Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago. Description: Wright loaned over two hundred prints to an extensive exhibition of Japanese Colour Prints from March 5-25, 1908, at The Art Institute of Chicago, titled A Loan Exhibition of Japanese Colour Prints. The committee in charge, and major contributors, were Clarence Buckingham, Frederick W. Gookin, J. Clarence Webster and Frank Lloyd Wright. It was the largest exhibit of Ukiyo-e prints ever displayed in America. Wright designed the exhibition installation for the Art Institute. Included with the designs for the exhibition was a Japanese Print Easel or Stand. The print was held in a tall vertical frame that intersected the base, and floated above the surface it was placed on. The low base was designed to hold a small vase for flower arrangements or other decorative items. The overall design was very consistent with Wright's prairie style. Although very vertical in appearance, this first Print Stand appears to be about three feet in height and was designed to be placed off the ground at eye level. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago. For more information see our Wright Study on the Japanese Print Stand. Size: 7.25 x 9 B&W print. S#: 0085.17.1211     Date: Circa 1908 Title: 1908 Japanese Print Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago. Description: Wright loaned over two hundred prints to an extensive exhibition of Japanese Colour Prints from March 5-25, 1908, at The Art Institute of Chicago, titled A Loan Exhibition of Japanese Colour Prints. The committee in charge, and major contributors, were Clarence Buckingham, Frederick W. Gookin, J. Clarence Webster and Frank Lloyd Wright. It was the largest exhibit of Ukiyo-e prints ever displayed in America. Wright designed the exhibition installation for the Art Institute. Included with the designs for the exhibition was a Japanese Print Easel or Stand. The print was held in a tall vertical frame that intersected the base, and floated above the surface it was placed on. The low base was designed to hold a small vase for flower arrangements or other decorative items. The overall design was very consistent with Wright's prairie style. Although very vertical in appearance, this first Print Stand appears to be about three feet in height and was designed to be placed off the ground at eye level. For more information see our Wright Study on the Japanese Print Stand. Size: 5.75 x 9.75 B&W print. S#: 0085.18.1211     Date: 1914 Title: Marionette Theatre 1914. Description: The Marionette Theatre was displayed at an exhibition of Wright's work entitled "The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright" at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1914. The Marionette Theatre was designed in 1908 for his son Llewellyn. The engraved masque reads, "To Fashion Worlds in Little - Making Form As God Does One With Spirit - So God Makes Use Of Poets", an adaptation of a passage from Richard Harvey's "Taliesin". This quote was used three years before Wright began building Taliesin I in 1911. Also visible in the photograph is a Coonley Playhouse window (1912 - S.1912) and three Print Stands. The shorter version seen on the left behind the Puppet Theater and the taller version seen on the right. A smaller desk top Print Stand can be seen in the center. Also seen behind the print stands center right are small models of the Midway Garden Sprites. Published in Taliesin 1911-1914, Menocal, 1992, p.49. Text bottom left: "12024." Hand written on verso: "F. L. Wright. An exhibition of his architectural designs, Sept. 25 to Oct 12, 1930 (sic) at the Chicago Art Institute, shown concurrently with an exhibition of Japanese prints, from Buckingham called, By Utagaina Toyakuni." Stamped on verso: "Photographic Archive, Art History Department, University of Minnesota." Acquired from the achieves of the University of Minnesota.  For more information see our Wright Study on the Japanese Print Stand. Size: Original 7.5 x 10 B&W photograph. S#: 0124.41.0420     Date: 1914 Title: Puppet Theater 1914. Description: The Marionette Theatre was displayed at an exhibition of Wright's work entitled "The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright" at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1914. The Marionette Theatre was designed in 1908 for his son Llewellyn. The engraved masque reads, "To Fashion Worlds in Little - Making Form As God Does One With Spirit - So God Makes Use Of Poets", an adaptation of a passage from Richard Harvey's "Taliesin". This quote was used three years before Wright began building Taliesin I in 1911. Also visible in the photograph is a Coonley Playhouse window (1912 - S.1912) and three Print Stands. The shorter version seen on the left behind the Puppet Theater and the taller version seen on the right. A smaller desk top Print Stand can be seen in the center. Courtesy of The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. For more information see our Wright Study on the Japanese Print Stand. Size: 7.75 x 10 B&W photograph. S#: 0124.13.1211     Date: 1914 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright at Exhibition 1914. Description: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright at The 27th Annual Exhibition of the Chicago Architectural Club, held at the Art Institute of Chicago in the Spring of 1914. Midway Gardens model is in the foreground on the right. The reverse side of the Marionette Theatre, designed in 1908 for his son Llewellyn, is in the center. There are five Print Stands visible in this image. The two taller floor versions are seen on the far left and the right. The shorter table top version is to the right of center. Not seen before are the two desk top versions seen in the foreground on the left, and behind it in the background. Drawings are on the wall in the background. Three Midway Gardens Sprite maquettes are visible, two on the ledge to the left, and on in the background in the center. Published in Wright on Exhibit, Smith, 2017, p.38; The Chicago Architectural Club, Hasbrouck, 2005, p.425. Photographed by Henry Fuermann & Sons. Size: 7.5 x 10 B&W photograph. S#: 0124.42.0420     Date: 2010 Title: Japanese Print Stand adaptation, 2010. Description: In 1908 Wright loaned over two hundred prints to an extensive exhibition of Japanese Colour Prints, March 5-25, 1908, at The Art Institute of Chicago, entitled A Loan Exhibition of Japanese Colour Prints. The committee in charge, and major contributors, were Clarence Buckingham, Frederick W. Gookin, J. Clarence Webster and Frank Lloyd Wright. It was the largest exhibit of Ukiyo-e prints ever displayed in America. Wright designed the exhibition installation for the Art Institute. Included with the designs for the exhibition was a Japanese Print Easel or Stand. In November, 2010 my son-in-law, James C. Rust gave us a table top version of the Print Stand. Not having original plans to work with, he created a very accurate adaptation of the shorter table top Print Stand. Thirty-six inches in height, eight in width and twelve inches in depth, it is made of oak, stained with walnut, and coated with a satin finish. What once was an obscure two dimensional element, comes to life as a detailed three dimensional object illustrating the mind of Frank Lloyd Wright. Gift from James C. Rust. For more information see our Wright Study on the Japanese Print Stand. Size: 36H x 8W x 12D ST#: 2010.06.1110             JIYU GAKUEN GIRLS' SCHOOL, TOKYO (1921 - S.213)   Photograph circa 1930, courtesy of "Our Life in the Jiyu Gakuen". Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School (1921 - S.213). The Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School began on April 15th, 1921 with thirty students. "The name's literal translation "school-garden of liberty", was given to the school by Mr. And Mrs. Hani. It may be added that the name, which truly represents the spirit of the school, was taken from a passage in the Bible, "The truth shall make you free". "Our Life in the Jiyu Gakuen" 1930, pp 2-3. While working on the Imperial Hotel (1915-1923 - S.194), Wright was contacted by Mr. And Mrs. Hani in 1921. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor. Two classrooms where on either side of the main building. Additional classrooms were added later creating a U-Shaped building seen today. Arata Endo was Wright's assistant on the Imperial Hotel. He was most likely responsible for the additional classrooms. Arata Endo pasted way in 1951. An effort began in 1990 to save and restore the building. In 1997 it was designated a National Important Cultural Status. Restoration began n January 1999 and was completed in September 2001.     Date: 1930 Title: Our Life in the Jiyu Gakuen (Soft Cover) Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School, Class of 1923.  Introduction by Wright. Includes history of School as well as photos of the school. (First Edition) Size: 7 x 10 Pages: Pp 64 S#: 0229.01.0405     Date: 1990 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School, Tokyo, Japan, 1990 (1921 - S.213). Description: Label taped on verso: "APN Illustrations, New York. (For use Sun., Dec. 9, 1990 with Michael Hirsh's Tokyo APN story slugged Japan-Land.) Building of Tomorrow. Yuko Hani stands in front of the "Building of Tomorrow," the Jiyu Gakuen school house Frank Lloyd Wright built 69 years ago near the northwestern section of metropolitan Tokyo. Ms. Hani heads a group of Jiyu Gakuan alumni, who are seeking to raise funds to save the building from its sagging foundation. 11/20/90. Stf/Katsumi Kasahara." Acquired from the archived of the Associated Press. Size: Original 11 x 8 B&W photograph. ST#: 1990.90.0911     Date: 1993 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School, Tokyo, Japan, 1993 (1921 - S.213). Description: Caption on face: "07 May 93 -- Tokyo: Front view of Myonichikan 07 May, a former women's school was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright before WWII. AFP Photo. Junji Kurokawa - 07/05/93." After completing the Imperial Hotel, Frank Lloyd Wright designed three residences and this school between 1917-1921. The Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School was his final project in Japan. Photographed by Junji Kurokawa. Acquired from the archived of the Chicago Tribune. Size: Original 10 x 8.25 B&W photograph. ST#: 1993.69.0811     Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School, undated set of seven photographs circa 1995 Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School, Circa 1995 (1921 - S.213). Undated set of seven photographs, descriptive sheet and envelop. The Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School began on April 15th, 1921 with thirty students. While working on the Imperial Hotel (1915-1923 - S.194), Frank Lloyd Wright was contacted by Mr. And Mrs. Hani. "This little school building was designed for the Jiyu-Gakuen - in the same spirit implied by the name of the school - a free spirit. It was intended to be simple happy place for happy children - unpretentious - genuine. It is built in no certified style. It has style all its own. Whether one likes or dislikes it, the style is harmoniously founded on right principles... The architects have felt this in working out this design with Mr. And Mrs. Hani, and are happy to see the building carrying its children as a tree carries its blossoms. The children seem to belong to the building in quite the same way as the flowers belong to the tree, and the building belongs to them as the tree belongs to its flowers... Frank Lloyd Wright, Arata Endo." Text reprinted from "Our Life in the Jiyu Gakuen" 1930. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor. Two classrooms where on either side of the main building. Additional classrooms were added later creating a U-Shaped building seen today. Arata Endo was Wright's assistant on the Imperial Hotel. He was most likely responsible for the additional classrooms. Arata Endo pasted way in 1951. An effort began in 1990 to save and restore the building. In 1997 it was designated a National Important Cultural Status. Restoration began in January 1999 and was completed in September 2001. Photographs by Raku Endo, son of Arata Endo. He was born in 1927. He attended the Jiyu Gakuen School after it became coed. He worked with his father, and at 30 years old, in 1957 became Wright's last apprentice from Japan. After returning to Japan he became an architect. He past away in 2003. These photographs were most likely taken in the 1990s before renovations were competed in 2001.     Date: Circa 1995 Title: Photo 1 Description: Birds-eye view of complex in the spring. Most likely taken in the 1990s. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor, and two classrooms on either side. Additional classrooms were added later creating a U-Shaped building seen today. Arata Endo was Wright's assistant on the Imperial Hotel. He was most likely responsible for the additional classrooms. Directly across the street, out of view on the left, is the Auditorium designed by Arata Endo. Photograph by Raku Endo, son of Arata Endo. Size: 6 x 4.     Date: Circa 1995 Title: Photo 2 Description: Front view in the spring. Most likely taken in the 1990s. Balcony roof overhang has been braced. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor, two classrooms on either side. Photograph by Raku Endo, son of Arata Endo. Size: 6 x 4.     Date: Circa 1995 Title: Photo 3 Description: Front view in the spring. Most likely taken in the 1990s. Balcony roof overhang has been braced. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor, two classrooms on either side. Photograph by Raku Endo, son of Arata Endo. Size: 6 x 4.     Date: Circa 1995 Title: Photo 4 Description: Front view in the spring. Most likely taken in the 1990s. Balcony roof overhang has been braced. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor, two classrooms on either side. Photograph by Raku Endo, son of Arata Endo. Size: 6 x 4.     Date: Circa 1995 Title: Photo 5 Description: Interior view of Class Room. Most likely taken in the 1990s. Wright's design included two classrooms where on either side of the main building. Photograph by Raku Endo, son of Arata Endo. Size: 6 x 4.     Date: Circa 1995 Title: Photo 6 Description: Side view in the spring of the additional classrooms on the left. Most likely taken in the 1990s. These additional classrooms were added later creating a U-Shaped building seen today. The Auditorium can be seen in the background across the street. Arata Endo was Wright's assistant on the Imperial Hotel. He was most likely responsible for the additional classrooms, and also responsible for the design of the Auditorium which was designed in the late 1920s. Photograph by Raku Endo, son of Arata Endo. Size: 6 x 4.     Date: Circa 1995 Title: Photo 7 Description: Auditorium designed in the late 1920s. Arata Endo was Wright's assistant on the Imperial Hotel. He was responsible for the design of the Auditorium. Photograph by Raku Endo, son of Arata Endo. Size: 6 x 4.     Date: Circa 1995 Title: Description Description: Descriptive sheet and envelope. "This little school building was designed for the Jiyu-Gakuen - in the same spirit implied by the name of the school - a free spirit. It was intended to be simple happy place for happy children - unpretentious - genuine. It is built in no certified style. It has style all its own. Whether one likes or dislikes it, the style is harmoniously founded on right principles... The architects have felt this in working out this design with Mr. And Mrs. Hani, and are happy to see the building carrying its children as a tree carries its blossoms. The children seem to belong to the building in quite the same way as the flowers belong to the tree, and the building belongs to them as the tree belongs to its flowers... Frank Lloyd Wright, Arata Endo." Text reprinted from "Our Life in the Jiyu Gakuen" 1930. Text in English and Japanese. Size: Descriptive sheet 16.5 x 5.8 folded to 4.1 x 5.8. White envelope 6.4 x 4.5.     Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School, undated set of eight postcards   Date: Circa 2001 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School (1921 - S.213). Undated set of eight postcards, descriptive sheet and envelop. Description: The Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School began on April 15th, 1921 with thirty students. While working on the Imperial Hotel (1915-1923 - S.194), Frank Lloyd Wright was contacted by Mr. And Mrs. Hani. "This little school building was designed for the Jiyu-Gakuen - in the same spirit implied by the name of the school - a free spirit. It was intended to be simple happy place for happy children - unpretentious - genuine. It is built in no certified style. It has style all its own. Whether one likes or dislikes it, the style is harmoniously founded on right principles... The architects have felt this in working out this design with Mr. And Mrs. Hani, and are happy to see the building carrying its children as a tree carries its blossoms. The children seem to belong to the building in quite the same way as the flowers belong to the tree, and the building belongs to them as the tree belongs to its flowers... Frank Lloyd Wright, Arata Endo." Text reprinted from "Our Life in the Jiyu Gakuen" 1930.  Gift from Randolph Henning. Size: Postcards 5.9 x 4.1. Descriptive sheet 5.9 x 12 folded to 5.9 x 4. Envelope 4.75 x 6.7. ST#: 2001.55.1111     Date: Circa 2001 Title: Postcard 1: Early Birds-eye View. Description: Possibly the winter of 1950-1960s. Original entry gate has been replaced. Balcony roof overhang has been braced. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor, two classrooms on either side. Additional classrooms were added later creating a U-Shaped building seen today. Arata Endo was Wright's assistant on the Imperial Hotel. He was most likely responsible for the additional classrooms. Size: 5.9 x 4.1     Date: Circa 2001 Title: Postcard 2: Front view in the spring. Description: The trees seen above have matured. Original entry gate has been restored. Balcony roof overhang has been braced. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor, two classrooms on either side. Size: 5.9 x 4.1     Date: Circa 2001 Title: Postcard 3: Front view in the summer. Description: Most likely taken after the 2001 restoration. Balcony roof overhang brace has been removed. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor, two classrooms on either side. Size: 5.9 x 4.1     Date: Circa 2001 Title: Postcard 4: Side view in the summer of the additional classrooms on the right. Description: Most likely taken after the 2001 restoration at the same time as PC3. These additional classrooms were added later creating a U-Shaped building seen today. Arata Endo was Wright's assistant on the Imperial Hotel. He was most likely responsible for the additional classrooms. Size: 5.9 x 4.1     Date: Circa 2001 Title: Postcard 5: View of the two-story Living Room/Classroom from under the second floor balcony. Description: Most likely taken after the 2001 restoration. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating this two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included the Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor. The light fixtures and furniture were designed by Wright. Size: 5.9 x 4.1     Date: Circa 2001 Title: Postcard 6: View of the two-story Living Room/Classroom windows. Description: Most likely taken after the 2001 restoration. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating this two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included the Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor. The furniture were designed by Wright. Size: 5.9 x 4.1     Date: Circa 2001 Title: Postcard 7: View of the Dining Hall. Most likely taken after the 2001 restoration. Description: Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included the Assembly Hall on the first floor and this Dining Hall on the second floor. The light fixtures were designed by Wright. Size: 5.9 x 4.1     Date: Circa 2001 Title: Postcard 8: View of Class Room. Description: Most likely taken after the 2001 restoration. Wright's design included two classrooms where on either side of the main building. Size: 5.9 x 4.1     Date: Circa 2001 Title: Descriptive sheet. Description: "This little school building was designed for the Jiyu-Gakuen - in the same spirit implied by the name of the school - a free spirit. It was intended to be simple happy place for happy children - unpretentious - genuine. It is built in no certified style. It has style all its own. Whether one likes or dislikes it, the style is harmoniously founded on right principles... The architects have felt this in working out this design with Mr. And Mrs. Hani, and are happy to see the building carrying its children as a tree carries its blossoms. The children seem to belong to the building in quite the same way as the flowers belong to the tree, and the building belongs to them as the tree belongs to its flowers... Frank Lloyd Wright, Arata Endo." Text reprinted from "Our Life in the Jiyu Gakuen" 1930. Text in English and Japanese. Includes illustration of Floor Plan. Size: 5.9 x 12 folded to 5.9 x 4.     Date: Circa 2001 Title: Envelope Description: Envelope for containing eight Postcards and Descriptive sheet. Size: 4.75 x 6.7.     Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School 2003, Set of Eight Postcards Set of eight illustrated postcards of the Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School that Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1921. Includes envelope and descriptive sheet. The Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School began on April 15th, 1921 with thirty students. From the descriptive sheet: "The Myonichikan of Jiyu Gakuen (1921 "). Myonichikan is the school building where Jiyu Gakuen began. Yoshikazu dnd Motoko Hani founded Jiyu Gakuen (Freedom School) on this site in 1921. The building was designed by the famous American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, who was at the time in Japan working on designing the Imperial Hotel. Wright was introduced to the couple by their friend Arata Endo, who was also engaged in the hotel project as an assistant to Wright. After hearing the Motoko's idea of initiating their own school, Wright undertook the design of the school in collaboration with Endo. He wholeheartedly sympathized with Motoko's educational philosophy and incorporated it into the fundamental design concept. In a letter signed jointly by Endo, Wright wrote the following to the Hanis after completing completion of the building. "This little school building was designed for the Jiyu-Gakuen - in the same spirit implied by the name of the school - a free spirit. It was intended to be simple happy place for happy children - unpretentious - genuine.' ..." (2003.59.0519  1-10)     Date: 2003 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Envelope 2003 (1921 - S.213). Description: 1) Envelope: "Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan. Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright. Architectural renderings by Takashi Satoh." Verso: "Printed March 2003." Text in English and Japanese. Size: 4.7 x 6.6 ST#: 2003.59.0519 -1     Date: 2003 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). Description: 2) Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). View of the Main Building. Text on verso: "Main Building. Postcard. Architect: F. L. Wright. Architectural renderings by Takashi Satoh. Important Cultural Property, Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan." Text in English and Japanese. Size: 5.9 x 3.9 ST#: 2003.59.0519 -2     Date: 2003 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). Description: 3) Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). View of the Auditorium. Text on verso: "Auditorium. Postcard. Architect: F. L. Wright. Architectural renderings by Takashi Satoh. Important Cultural Property, Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan." Text in English and Japanese. Size: 5.9 x 3.9 ST#: 2003.59.0519 -3     Date: 2003 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). Description: 4) Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). View toward the Auditorium Stage. Text on verso: "Stage in Auditorium. Postcard. Architect: F. L. Wright. Architectural renderings by Takashi Satoh. Important Cultural Property, Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan." Text in English and Japanese. Size: 5.9 x 3.9 ST#: 2003.59.0519 -4     Date: 2003 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). Description: 5) Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). View toward the rear of the Auditorium. Text on verso: "Rear Side of Auditorium. Postcard. Architect: F. L. Wright. Architectural renderings by Takashi Satoh. Important Cultural Property, Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan." Text in English and Japanese. Size: 5.9 x 3.9 ST#: 2003.59.0519 -5     Date: 2003 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). Description: 6) Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). View of the Dining Hall. Text on verso: "Rear Dining Hall. Postcard. Architect: F. L. Wright. Architectural renderings by Takashi Satoh. Important Cultural Property, Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan." Text in English and Japanese. Size: 5.9 x 3.9 ST#: 2003.59.0519 -6     Date: 2003 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). Description: 7) Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). Detail of the lighting fixture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Text on verso: "Lighting Fixture. Postcard. Architect: F. L. Wright. Architectural renderings by Takashi Satoh. Important Cultural Property, Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan." Text in English and Japanese. Size: 5.9 x 3.9 ST#: 2003.59.0519 -7     Date: 2003 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). Description: 8) Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). View of the entrance to the Lounge Hall. Text on verso: "Entrance in the side of the Lounge Hall. Postcard. Architect: F. L. Wright. Architectural renderings by Takashi Satoh. Important Cultural Property, Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan." Text in English and Japanese. Size: 5.9 x 3.9 ST#: 2003.59.0519 -8     Date: 2003 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). Description: 9) Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Postcard 2003 (1921 - S.213). View of the Lounge Hall. Text on verso: "Lounge Hall. Postcard. Architect: F. L. Wright. Architectural renderings by Takashi Satoh. Important Cultural Property, Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan." Text in English and Japanese. Size: 5.9 x 3.9 ST#: 2003.59.0519 -9     Date: 2003 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School Descriptive Sheet 2003 (1921 - S.213). Description: 10) Descriptive sheet included in the postcard set. "The Myonichikan of Jiyu Gakuen (1921 "). Myonichikan is the school building where Jiyu Gakuen began. Yoshikazu dnd Motoko Hani founded Jiyu Gakuen (Freedom School) on this site in 1921. The building was designed by the famous American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, who was at the time in Japan working on designing the Imperial Hotel. Wright was introduced to the couple by their friend Arata Endo, who was also engaged in the hotel project as an assistant to Wright. After hearing the Motoko's idea of initiating their own school, Wright undertook the design of the school in collaboration with Endo. He wholeheartedly sympathized with Motoko's educational philosophy and incorporated it into the fundamental design concept. In a letter signed jointly by Endo, Wright wrote the following to the Hanis after completing completion of the building. "This little school building was designed for the Jiyu-Gakuen - in the same spirit implied by the name of the school - a free spirit. It was intended to be simple happy place for happy children - unpretentious - genuine.' ..." Text on verso in Japanese. Size: 5.9 x 7.8. Folded to 5.9 x 3.9 ST#: 2003.59.0519 -10     Date: 2007 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School exterior, 2007. (1921 - S.213). Description: While working on the Imperial Hotel (1915-1923 - S.194), Wright was contacted by Mr. And Mrs. Hani. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor. Two classrooms where on either side of the main building. Additional classrooms were added later creating a U-Shaped building seen on the far left. Arata Endo was Wright's assistant on the Imperial Hotel. He was most likely responsible for the additional classrooms. An effort began in 1990 to save and restore the building. In 1997 it was designated a National Important Cultural Status. Restoration began in January 1999 and was completed in September 2001. Photograph by Jmho, August 21, 2007. Size: Original 10 x 5.6 photograph. ST#: 2007.64.1111     Date: 2007 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School two-story Living Room/Classroom exterior, 2007. (1921 - S.213). Description: While working on the Imperial Hotel (1915-1923 - S.194), Wright was contacted by Mr. And Mrs. Hani. Wright's design consisted of the larger building in the center incorporating a two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. The rear included an Assembly Hall on the first floor and a Dining Hall on the second floor. Two classrooms where on either side of the main building. An effort began in 1990 to save and restore the building. In 1997 it was designated a National Important Cultural Status. Restoration began in January 1999 and was completed in September 2001. Photograph by Jmho, August 21, 2007. Size: Original 10 x 7 photograph. ST#: 2007.65.1111     Date: 2008 Title: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School two-story Living Room/Classroom interior from the second floor balcony, 2008. (1921 - S.213). Description: The glass and furniture were designed by Wright. While working on the Imperial Hotel (1915-1923 - S.194), Wright was contacted by Mr. And Mrs. Hani. Wright's design consisted of a larger building in the center incorporating this two-story Living Room/Classroom in the front. An effort began in 1990 to save and restore the building. In 1997 it was designated a National Important Cultural Status. Restoration began in January 1999 and was completed in September 2001. Photographed August 27, 2008. Size: Original 10 x 7 photograph. ST#: 2008.15.1111     Date: 2016 Title: Jiyu Gakuen, School of The Free Spirit, 1921 (Soft Cover) (Published by Hideyuki Kudo, Transview Co., Ltd., Tokyo) Author: Tanigawa, Masami Description: Text in Japanese and English. Photos of the Juyu Gakuen, p.4-27. Drawings, p.28-31. Detailed photographs, p.32-37. Inheriting Wright's Heritage, text and photographs, p.41-63. Photographs by Kazuyoshi Miyamoto. Original list price Y1700. (First Edition) Size: 6 x 8.25 Pages: Pp 63 ST#: 2016.45.0420             TAZAEMON YAMAMURA RESIDENCE (1918 - S.212)     Date: 1972 Title: F. L. Wright, Understanding the Yamamura House (Stiff Paper Covers) (Published by The Architectural Institute of Japan.) Author: I) Katsuki; Sakamoto; II) Tanigawa, Masami III) Many authors, including Tanigawa IV) Tanigawa Description: Japanese text. Six chapters related to the Yamamura House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1918.  I. On the Construction of the Yamamura House.  II. About Wright Architecture. Chapter II includes three photographs, Imperial Hotel, Jiyu Gakeun Girls' School, Hayashi Residence.  III. Preservation Problems.  IV. Wright Related Material. (A Bibliography)  V. Japanese Architectural Institute. VI. Includes 15 photographs, 4 blueprints, map, 4 floor plans. Acquired from the estate of Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck. The Tazaemon Yamamura Residence (1918 - S.212) was one of four buildings Frank Lloyd Wright designed in Japan. The others being: The Imperial Hotel (1915 - S.194); Aisaku Hayashi Residence (1917 - S.206); Arinobu Fukuhara Residence (1918 - S.207, destroyed 1923 earthquake); Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School (1921 - S.213). This volume includes a short biography on Wright, as-well-as a bibliography on published books by and about Frank Lloyd Wright, floor plans for each of the four floors, and 25 photographs and illustrations. Acquired from the estate of Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck. Size: 7.25 x 10.25 Pages: Pp 72 S#: 1909.51.1017     Date: 1994 Title: The World of F.L. Wright. Yodogawa Steel Mill State Guest House Restoration Commemoration (Hard Cover) (Published by the Yodogawa Steel Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan) Author: Yodogawa Steel Co., Ltd.; Commentary by Masami Tanikawa Description: Published in Japanese. First published in 1989. This volume was published to commemorate the restoration of the Yamamura Residence (1918 - S.212)        Page 1 (Google Translation): Wright, who designed the "Yodokou State Guest House", built his own residence and design office and named it “Taliesin.” “Taliesin" means "shining brow" in Welsh. To build a building around the forehead without losing the ridgeline of the mountain. And the building should be in harmony with the natural landscape. On the contrary, when the building shines brightly like a jewel that decorates the forehead, the surrounding wind and light will finally increase the brilliance.        It should be said that the "Yodokou State Guest House" was built on the same intention as "Taliesin". It blends with the environment without blocking the ridgeline of the hill, and the scenery around here is alive because this building is built.        It is not just a lump of concrete, but the geometric pattern attached to the key points of the outer wall is an abstraction of the surrounding plants, but it contributes to the moisture of life and gives a sense of closeness. (Sixth Edition) Size: 8.75 x 8.4 Pages: Pp 32 ST#: 1994.151.0724     Date: 2008 Title: Yamamura House, Yodoko Guest House, 1924 Japan. Frank Lloyd Wright. (Soft Cover) (Published by Shuichi Ishihara, Banana Books, Tokyo, Japan) Author: Tanigawa, Masami Description: The miracle of the surviving Oya Stone House. Western-style building visible from the Train Platform.        Take the Hankyu Kobe line from Umeda (Osaka) to Ashiyagawa. But don't rush down the stairs to the exit. Why not walk over to the Osaka side of the platform and take a look at the Ashiya river running beneath the platform?        Hidden among lush growth at the skirts of the Rokko mountain range, you will see a western-style edifice. Although I used the term "edifice," it is not a formal or ostentatious building. This chateau made of reinforced concrete and Oya stone creates a peaceful atmosphere, integrated with the fresh green of the surrounding rich natural environment. Curiously, even someone seeing it for the first time would feel a sense of affinity with this building. This may be one of best views in Ashiya City, which is notable as an international, cultural and residential city of the Hanshin (Osaka-Kobe) area.        Frank Lloyd Wright, the master American architect, designed this building in 1918 as a retreat for Tazaemon Yamamura the 8th..        Photography by Kazuyoshi Miyamoto. Original list price Y1333. (First Edition) Size: 5.8 x 8.25 Pages: Pp 63 ST#: 2008.53.0324     Date: 2018 Title: Yamamura House, Yodoko Guest House, 1924 Japan. Frank Lloyd Wright. (Soft Cover) (Published by Hideyuki Kudo, Banana Books, Tokyo, Japan) Author: Tanigawa, Masami Description: The miracle of the surviving Oya Stone House. Western-style building visible from the Train Platform.        Take the Hankyu Kobe line from Umeda (Osaka) to Ashiyagawa. But don't rush down the stairs to the exit. Why not walk over to the Osaka side of the platform and take a look at the Ashiya river running beneath the platform?        Hidden among lush growth at the skirts of the Rokko mountain range, you will see a western-style edifice. Although I used the term "edifice," it is not a formal or ostentatious building. This chateau made of reinforced concrete and Oya stone creates a peaceful atmosphere, integrated with the fresh green of the surrounding rich natural environment. Curiously, even someone seeing it for the first time would feel a sense of affinity with this building. This may be one of best views in Ashiya City, which is notable as an international, cultural and residential city of the Hanshin (Osaka-Kobe) area.        Frank Lloyd Wright, the master American architect, designed this building in 1918 as a retreat for Tazaemon Yamamura the 8th...        Photography by Kazuyoshi Miyamoto. Original list price Y1500. (Third Edition) Size: 5.8 x 8.25 Pages: Pp 63 ST#: 2018.55.0424             ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM     Date: 1972 Title: Architecture and Urbanism Vol-2 - February 1972 (Published monthly by A & U Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) Author: Higuchi, Kiyoshi Description: "F. L. Wright and Le Corbustier." Text in Japanese. Part One of an eleven part series which ran from February through December. Includes one photograph of the Romeo and Juliet Windmill. Original cover price $3.20.  (Sweeney 1894-A) Size: 8.6 x 11.5 Pages: Pp 7-8 S#: 1894.00.0719-A     Date: 1979 Title: Architecture and Urbanism July 1979, No 106, 79:07 (Published monthly by A & U Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) Author: Antoniades, Anthony C. Description: Printed in Japanese and English. Extensive article that includes many sections about Frank Lloyd Wright. "Architecture From Inside Lens." Sections on Wright include: 1) Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Lloyd Wright. 2) Mendelsohn's Evaluation of Wright. 3) Wright's Aesthetic Appraisals. 4) Interview of a Great Architect and a Poet. (Sandburg). 5) Frank Lloyd Wright and His Disciples. 6) Excellence of Die. (Wright and Goff) 7) Not Afraid of Anybody. (Wright and Goff) 8) Everybody Has a mother. (Wright and Goff) 9) Wright's Opinion on Hotel. 10) Frank Lloyd Wright and Women. 11) Frank Lloyd Wright and the AIA. 12) Wright's Very Good Dinner. 13) Frank Lloyd Wright. (Mies van der Rohe) 14) The arrogance of Frank Lloyd Wright. 15) Building Facades. 16) The Washington Comfort Station. 17) Leaking Roofs. 18) Edgar Kaufmann's Position on Architecture. 19) The Movie Star That Did Not Become an Architect. Includes two photographs of Wright on the cover, and seven photographs of Wright and his work. Size: 8.6 x 11.5 Pages: Pp 3-22 ST#: 1979.45.0819     Date: 1980 Title: Architecture and Urbanism July 1980 No 118, 80:07 (Published monthly by A & U Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) Author: Hoesli, Bernhard Description: Printed in Japanese and English. Extensive article on Fallingwater. "Frank Lloyd Wright: Falling Water (sic Fallingwater). Why Falling Water? One may indeed ask if this once remarkable work of the Modern Movement can still attract our interest and if so, for what reason, at a time it has been a claimed as Post-Modern. Today it seems no doubt a classic as remote as the Capella Pazzi, as a Santa Maria della Consolazione at Todi, as l'Arlesinne of Picasso or a still life of 1913 Braque. I remember that I first saw photographs of it shown after World War II in the exhibit USA Builds that was shown in 1946 in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. I found it also in Built in USA, a Survey of Contemporary American Architects, from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1945..." Includes 67 photographs and illustrations. Photographs by John Nicolais. Size: 8.5 x 11.5 Pages: Pp Cover, 147-166 ST#: 1980.55.0320     Date: 1981 Title: Architecture and Urbanism - January 1981 No 124 (Published monthly by A & U Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) Author: 1) Uchii, Shozo Author: 2) Fujii, Yoshimasa     Description: Printed in Japanese and English. 1) "Frank Lloyd Wright, an Architect for Human settlement." Text in Japanese. Includes 24 photographs, Fallingwater (4), S. C. Johnson (4), Wright Home and Studio (2), Charnley (1), Moore (1), Thomas (1), Gale (1), Winslow (1), Heurtley (1), Robie (4), Guggenheim (1), Dallas Theater (1), V. C. Morris (1), Scoville Fountain (1). Description:  2) "A Letter From Taliesin." Text in Japanese. Includes 9 photographs of Taliesin West. Size: 8.6 x 11.5 Pages: Pp 205-220 ST#: 1981.149.1219             CASA BRUTUS     Date: 2001 Title: Casa Brutus - December 2001 - (Published by Hearst Holdings, Inc.) Author: Zenno, Yasushi; Fujiskai, Keiichiro Description: Published in Japanese. Extensive article on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. (Google translator.)        Pages 28-29: The Frank Lloyd Wright you know. This is Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece. But... This spread includes a photograph of the Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater.        Pages 30-68: The one you don't... Such a surprising architecture is also light.        Frank Lloyd Wright: Sometimes it's a "buyer of Ukiyo-e", sometimes it's "Japan's first design hotel designer", and sometimes "Playboy" who touches the owner's wife. What is its identity!?        The Phantom Discovered. A special feature on the Phantom of the Architectural World.        Includes approximately 165 photographs and illustrations of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Size: 9 x 11.25 Pages: Pp Cover, 29-68, 163-169 ST#: 2001.93.0724     Date: 2002 Title: Casa Brutus - 2002 Special Issue - (Published by Hearst Holdings, Inc.) Author: Editor: Shirai, Yoshikuni Description: Published in Japanese, reads back to front. An issue devoted to the work of “LeCorbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe.” There is an erxtensive section devoted to the work of each architect. Size: 9 x 11.25 Pages: Pp 1-186 ST#: 2002.151.0524     Date: 2023 Title: Casa Brutus - November 2023 - (Published by Hearst Holdings, Inc.) Author: Text: Yamada, Yoshinao; Mizukami, Yutaka; Akune, Sawako; Yoshida, Mika; Photos: Nagare, Satoshi Description: Published in Japanese, reads back to front. An issue devoted to the work of “Frank Lloyd Wright.” Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan. Sections includes: Imperial Hotel; Biography; F. L. Wright Education 1: Architecture; Fallingwater; Guggenheim Museum; F. L. Wright Education 2 - Personality; Origin, Taliesin; Robie House; SC Johnson; Unity Temple; Home and Studio; The Rookery; Jacobs (1) House; Unitarian Meeting House; Mona Terrace; F. L. Wright Education 3 - Japan; Yamamura House; Jiyugakuen Myonichikan; Exhibition; Taliesin Light Fixtures; Sidekick; Portrait; Imperial Hotel. Size: 9 x 11.25 Pages: Pp 33-125 ST#: 2023.24.0524             ELVEHJEM MUSEUM OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON   Date: March 5, 1981 Title: Wisconsin State Journal - March 5, 1981 Author: Anonymous Description: Elvehjem acquires 2,800 Japanese prints.  Bequested from Nobel Prize winner John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Size: Pages: Pp 5, Section 2 ST#: 1981.07.1004         Date: 1982 Title: Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo Author: Mead, Katherine Harper Description: Catalog for exhibition by the Elvehjem Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Elvehjem gifted 2,800 Japanese prints.  Many came from Frank Lloyd Wright collection.  (First Edition)  See"Fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge" Size: Pages: Pp 49 ST#: 1982.18.1004     Date: 1985 Title: The Elvehjem Author: Anonymous Description: Exhibitions: Japanese Woodblock Prints and Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection.  (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 4 ST#: 1985.12.1004     Date: 1988 Title: Artscene - September/October 1988 (Published by the Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Author: Elvehjem Museum of Art Description: 1) "After almost ten years of research and more than two years of planning, Frank Lloyd Wright and Madison: Eight Decades of Artistic and Social Interaction opens on September 2..." 2) Hiroshige Color Woodblock Prints. 3) Exhibitions. 4) Education. 5) Frank Lloyd Wright Madison Tour. Includes 13 photographs and illustrations related to Wright. Size: 11 x 17 Pages: Pp 9 ST#: 1988.99.0617             JAPANESE PRINTS   Date: Circa 1832 Title: Original Vintage Japanese Woodblock Scroll Print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Circa 1832 (1798 - 1861). Description: "Woman Holding a Vase," Original Japanese woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798 - 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese Ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting, and a member of the Utagawa school. Ukiyo-e was a style of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of subjects that included female beauties, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, scenes from history, folk tales, travel scenes and landscapes. Publisher: Masuda-ya Ginjir. Acquired from the estate of Thomas & Suzanne Miller, owners of the K. C. DeRhodes Residence from 1978 - 2021, South Bend, Indiana (1906 - S.125).        The K. C. DeRhodes Residence was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1906. Upon the DeRhodes death in 1952, the house was given to the First Methodist Church of South Bend to be used as a parsonage. In 1954 the Methodist Church sold the house to the Masonic lodge and was used as the Avalon Grotto Clubhouse until 1978. In 1978, Thomas and Suzanne Miller bought the home, and restored it over the next few decades. Tom Miller died in 2018 and Suzanne Miller died on May 10, 2021.        Printed on beige paper. Printed colors are solid scroll as has the brown bars at the top and bottom. It has also been cut and overlapped horizontally at the center. Identifying marks are on the center right. We did not un-frame the print to examine it. Signed center right.        Side note: We began researching this piece by contacting a Japanese friend who told us it was an old Japanese text. We also confirmed that it was not Chinese. As we began to contact translators, we were told that the text was ancient Japanese. Further research lead us to a translator that not only was able to translate the text, but also identified the artist and the publisher. Thank you Kazumasa Aoyama.        This print is not dated. For dating this print see Utagawa Kuniyoshi. An Exhibition of the Work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861). Acquired at auction from Liberty & 33rd Furniture Company, South Bend in 2022. Size: Exposed print size: 10.5 x 29.5. Frame: 18 x 47. ST#: 0000.46.1022             Date: 1858 Title:"Fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge" from the series"One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" Artist: Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige Description: Original Japanese woodblock print, first printed 1858.  This was part of the last series of landscapes produced by the Japanese woodblock-print artist Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (1797-1858). These designs of Edo, or modern Tokyo, are among the most familiar images of Japanese art in the world, which ultimately numbered 118.  Many copies were printed until the wooden blocks wore out.  Unknown printing date of this print.  8.5 x 13.25.  Wright owned one of these prints.  See "The Japanese Print." Wright 1967, Plate 2, Page 35.  "Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo" Page 45, Plate 98. Size: Image area 8.5 x 13.25. ST#: 2006.07.0706             HEMISPHERES   Date: 2005 Publication: Hemispheres - Feb 2005 (United Airlines in-flight magazine. Published Monthly by Pace Communications, Inc. Greensboro, NC)  Author: Illingworth, Montieth, M. Description: A)"Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan." On the centennial of Wright's first visit to Japan, author reveals the underappreciated impact of the East on this icon of Western architecture.  Includes six photos and illustrations. B) "Tour Wright's Japan."  12-day guided tour. C) "Wright Angles."  List of Wright books. D) "It's All Wright."  Wright as a collector of Japanese prints. Original cover price 7.50. Size: 8 x 11 Pages: Pp 6, 46-51 ST#: 2005.03.0405             JA - JAPAN ARCHITECT   Date: 1967 Title: Japan Architect - November 1967 (Published monthly in English by Shinkenchiku-Sha Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) Author: Higuchi, Kiyoshi Description: "The Significance for Today of Wright's Architecture (Part 2). Residential building is one of the main themes of contemporary architecture. Before the emergence of modern architecture, designers concerned themselves with memorial buildings like shrines and temples and with the residence of the ruling classes... Both Wright and Le Corbusier began their creative lives in residential design work, and each drew up his own ideal image f the city... Wright developed his great architectural system from the nature and society of the United Stated; we too... must give birth to our own great system..." Original cover price US $1.75.  (Sweeney 1698) Size: 8.75 x 11.75. Pages: Pp 17-20 S#: 1698.00.0912             ORIENTATIONS   Date: March 1995 Publication: Orientations Author: Meech, Julia Description: The Spaulding Brothers & Frank Lloyd Wright: Opportunity of a Lifetime (Japanese print Collection) Size: Pages: Pp 36-49 ST#: 1995.10.0501             VIEWS FROM THE FIGGE ART MUSEUM   Date: 2009 Publication: Views from The Figge Art Museum - Fall 2009 (Published by The Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA) Author: Anonymous Description: The Wright Stuff. Starting November 21, exhibition on works by Frank Lloyd Wright. A large selection of his work will be on display, including Imperial Hotel coffee service and drapery from the Hurtley House, Oak Park, Illinois, c. 1902. The collection will include an array of architectural drawings, stained glass, furniture, vases, carpets and other works. Includes one photograph of the Imperial Hotel Coffee Service. Digital and printed version. Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pg 4 ST#: 2009.11.1209

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