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The long-awaited, essential illustration collection for fans of anime and the works of Senbon Umishima! This fascinating art collection showcases the illustrated works of the illustrator, animator and manga artist, Senbon Umishima, including the artist's anime characters, landscapes, and selections from Senbon's own original manga stories. In addition to Senbon's illustrations, Umishima worked as animation director for She & Her Cat, the first animated work by the award-winning animator Makoto Shinkai, and has contributed to The Heroic Legend of Arslan and other anime series. Umishima's drawings are known for the way they illustrate body movement beautifully, while also expressing a sense of sentimentality -a unique style that has inspired the artist's more than a hundred thousand followers on Twitter. This title is sure to be equally inspiring to Umishima fans and those who are new to Senbon's distinctive illustrated works.

Capturing the serene beauty of the passage of time, an original photo collection of stunningly beautiful ruins from the worldThis is a never-before-seen photography book compiling breathtakingly beautiful ruins of the world in their silent surroundings. All photos in this collection, which has been 3 years in the making, are by Yuto Yamada, a graphic designer and photographer who now lives in Berlin. Beautifully composed, dramatic and spectacular photos of factories, army bases, hospitals, airports, railway stations, bridges and so on, which remind you of a scene from a movie, are at the same time overwhelming and intriguing.

Paws! Paws! Paws! Alert for cat lovers--this is a book full of adorable cats and their paws.This is a collection of photographs of more than 40 cats and kittens from famous cat lovers' Instagram, Twitter, and blogs. Filled with tons of cute angle shots, this book will surely melt your heart.

A fascinating book on the elegant paintings of birds and flowers in Edo-Rinpa paintingThe Rinpa school is one of the historical schools in Japanese painting established in 17th century Kyoto. Later in 19th century Edo (old Tokyo), Hoitsu Sakai, who worshiped and was influenced by Korin Ogata, revived this genre with his elegant, poetic and refined taste. This book showcases not only the most popular works of the Edo-Rinpa style but also features unique and innovative works from Kiitsu Suzuki, Hoitsu Sakai's own disciple, and shows how Rinpa style has been passed on to the modern painters such as Shunso Hishida and Sekka Kamisaka. Written by Momo Miyazaki, a specialist in Edo period painting and the curator of The Museum Yamato Bunkakan, this book will be an informative must have treasury book for Japanese art lovers, creators, and artists.

Illustrations that bring back the romance of fairytale maidens and princesses from childhoodThis is the second collection of Macoto Takahashi's art following Dreaming Girls. Macoto Takahashi is the legendary artist known for his romantic images of female characters adorned with roses, flowers, ribbons, lace, stars and so on. Heavily influenced by Art Deco, Macoto Takahashi's work laid the foundation of female characters in Japanese Manga. This book reveals the history of Macoto's artworks and the stories behind the images.(mostly Japanese text, some English as supplementary)