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Japanese children's book cover found in the NDLibrary. "Katakana Otogi Banashi," 1925

Here's my first real post in a long time. I'm glad to be back.

This old-school image dive pretends that Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest never existed. (And I've likely posted many of these images on my Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest accounts in the past year.)

"Katakana Otogi Banashi," 1925 (link)

circa 1910 Japan. From the NDLibrary via yajifun

Kobayashi Kaichi (1896-1968) via one of these collections of his work (my scan)

Simizu Yosio for Kodomo no Kuni c1929

1925, "Taishin name stories" via NDLibrary

1935 Japan book binding, from a lost highway of the Internet Archive

Settai Komura, 1935, via Dassaishooku

Collage from Black Magazine, Japan c.1971 (my scan)

Sibylle von Olfers, endpapers for Bellaroontje, het woud-prinsesje, 1913 via Geheugen van Nederland
Floris Books has some nice reprints of her work in English (see IndieBound). Previously: When the root children wake up

Ernst Kreidolf, from Gnomes' Winter Journey (Floris Book reprint / IndieBound)
Previously: The Dream Garden

Ana Sender, based on the traditional Russian tale "The Wolf." Ana has some great book proposals on her site.

Nika Goltz via Book Graphics

via In the Heather Bright. Aesop’s Fables translated by John Warrington, illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe (London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1961). Previously: Forgotten Illustrator Joan Kiddell-Monroe.

Ivar Arosenius (1878-1909), dated 1908, from an expired auction listing

Willy Pogany (Hungarian-American, 1882-1955), "The Circe," expired auction listing

From Ali Winstanley's studio visit with the great Estonian artist Jüri Arrak
Previously on this artist

Jozef Jankovič, Seriograph, 1970 via Robert Beatty's Toilet Paper Cosmos archive

"Unelma" - postcard circa 1905
From an exhibit at the Finnish Museum of Photography

Only found through Kuriosas

From a set of posters for The Mysterians

Pangolin from “Zoologia typica" (1849) via the Smithsonian

Previously: Image Dive 1

This post first appeared on January 22, 2018 on 50 Watts