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The definitive collection of background art from all the Studio Ghibli’s theatrical releases in one book.This book features more than 800 pieces of background art from 27 theatrical releases from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind to the latest film The Boy and the Heron. This large volume with over 500 pages is the complete and enduring commemorative edition that allows you to thoroughly enjoy backgrounds from each and every scene from these masterpieces.

This book celebrates the background art that creates the worlds of Studio Ghibli's films, offering 844 representative pieces handpicked from the thousands of backgrounds created for each feature film. Art director Yoji Takeshige supervised the selection, which includes art from each of Studio Ghibli's twenty-seven films, from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) to The Boy and the Heron (2023).These pages offer a glimpse into techniques that bring depth and life to these cherished cinematic worlds, quietly revealing mastery of brushwork, color, perspective, and the delicate balance of light and shadow.Studio Ghibli is delighted to invite you to immerse yourself in Painting the Worlds of Studio Ghibli. Enjoy the view. (From the Introduction)

?Featured TitlesNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)Castle in the Sky (1986)My Neighbor Totoro (1988)Grave of the Fireflies (1988)Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)Only Yesterday (1991)Porco Rosso (1992)Ocean Waves (1993)Pom Poko (1994)Whisper of the Heart (1995)On Your Mark (1995)Princess Mononoke (1997)My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)Spirited Away (2001)The Cat Returns (2002)the GHIBLIES episode 2 (2002)Howl's Moving Castle (2004)Tales from Earthsea (2006)Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008)Arrietty (2010)From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)The Wind Rises (2013)The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)When Marnie Was There (2014)The Red Turtle (2016) Earwig and the Witch (2020)The Boy and the Heron (2023)

©Studio Ghibli© 1988 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli© 1997 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, ND© 2001 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, NDDTM© 2023 Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli

*Available only in USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. 

The best-selling book of Mushroom Art is now available in a new luxury English edition!

Mushroom Botanical Art is a collection of mushroom and fungi paintings by European and Japanese naturalists in 18th to 19th century. The paintings each show the plant in its natural habitat and have been executed in a straightforward natural history illustration style with meticulous attention to detail. Beautiful color plate illustrations of each mushroom will attract both botanical art fans and lovers of mushrooms. It is pleasant to look and appreciate the beauty of these mushrooms, also useful for your own drawing and painting.

An illustration collection that compresses the worlds you admire and depicts them as miniature worlds!

Fantasy worlds unfold all around within small spaces like gardens. This is a collection that introduces 26 illustrators from Japan and overseas and the illustrations they draw that are brimming with originality. There are about 180 illustrations featured in this collection. The worlds that the artists want to depict are condensed, and even if they’re small, they’re still well worth seeing! In addition, commentary from the artists themselves explaining their worldview is also included. This book is not only enjoyable to look through, it also serves as a reference for those wanting to expand their ideas, for those wanting to make their images more profound, and for those looking for ways to stage story ideas.

A neo retro world, a world of sweets and foods, a world that looks like science fiction...we hope you will fully enjoy the worlds created by various artists.

Some explanations on each page of works featured, along with the artist profiles at the end of the book, are in Japanese and English bilingual text.

Lurking beneath the global obsession with manga and anime, there is a world of Japan's yokai monsters, mutants and vengeful mononoke spirits, which have long held people's imaginations in their terrifying grip ever since the Edo period (16th-19th centuries).

These fearsome creatures are now gathered together in this gorgeous new release that, for the first time ever, shows many enlargements of these masterpieces!

Immerse yourself in these yokai images and their mesmerizing detail showcased over more than 500 pages in this epic collection! Selections include over 60 works chosen from the collection at the Yumoto Koichi Memorial Japan Yokai Museum (Miyoshi Mononoke Museum), Japan's ¬- and, in fact, the world's ¬- only museum specializing in Japanese yokai monsters, each reproduced in high-resolution images with explanations. This compilation provides readers with the rare experience of seeing the brushwork of Edo-era painters like Tsukioka Yoshitoshi in detail firsthand.

This is a must-have book for those who love strange worlds and mutant creatures, and for anyone wanting to know more about Japanese yokai monsters. About the Yumoto Koichi Collection With over 5,000 works, the Yumoto Koichi Collection is the largest yokai collection in Japan. Spanning from the early modern period to the present day, the collection includes a wide range of artistic genres from paintings and hand-painted scrolls to nishiki-e woodblock prints and handicrafts such as kimono, metalworks, folk art and toys.

The donated collection is housed at the Yumoto Koichi Memorial Japan Yokai Museum (Miyoshi Mononoke Museum) in Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and part of the collection tours the world as part of exhibitions overseas.