Golden Age of Ningyō Japanese Dolls from the Ayervais Collection - Part Two at Auction Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 11AM ET in Annapolis, Maryland at Theriault’s Gallery
The important one-owner collection of Michael Ayervais of New York was assembled over more than 30 years, and features important examples highlighted in museum exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mingei Museum, and Morikami Museum, and shown in Ningyō, The Art of the Japanese Doll by Alan Scott Pate who is serving as consultant and cataloguer for this auction.
A superb full color catalog is available for the auction. For more information or to order a catalog visit www.theriaults.com.
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For those unfamiliar with the term one shot, it refers to a type of release that's only one chapter in length, length here being anywhere from as little as 5 to even 50+ pages, some serving as pilots for serialization hopefuls and others meant simply to be serve as one off self contained stories… one shots
and other stuff… is… other stuff is basically just me fucking around in mine and other folks PTR/plan to read list.. getting back to the roots of picking up random stuff just because they look nice, similar or completely unlike stuff I've seen or just other works by a mangaka whose work I liked
Before I go any further I want to mention a few twitter accounts I've probably mentioned before and definitely will mention again, great accounts if you're trying to expand your palette and see the breadth of what the medium has to offer, they tend to highlight manga from all over, buying a bunch of the different magazines and everything, much respect to them
now how I'm gonna go about this is the first half is for one shots read before and during this month and the second half is other stuff
one shots past:
shot 5 - count over (2018) by Shindou Masaoki (from ruri dragon.. rip)
shot 4 - the nightmare of fabrication (1998) by Yoshitoshi ABe
shot 3 - death note A-Kira (2020) by Oh! Great
shot 2 - look back, sayonara eri, just listen to the song by tatsuki fujimoto (2021 - 2022)
shot 1 - golem hearts (2017) by Gen Oosuka (Doron dororon) (reminds me of tabata and hungry joker)
one shots now:
shot 5 - lone wolf (2019) by Hiromasa Okujima
shot 4 - yiska (2018) by Waka Hirako
shot 3 - harukoma (2013) by Aki Irie
shot 2 - semi eternal happy end (2002) by Shiyuu Machida
shot 1 - shikaku, koi wa moumoko, sasaki stopped the bullet, nayuta of the end, imouto no ane, ningyo no rhapsody by tatsuki fujimoto (2021) [chainsaw man anime!!!]
basically a bunch of one shots from tatsuki fujimoto
other stuff past:
5 - acca 13 (2013-2016) by Natsume Ono, 37 chapters
4 - eye shield 21 (2002-2009) by Richirou Inagaki on story and yuusuke murata, 333 chapters
3 - animal land (2009-2014) by Makoto Raiku (zatch bell, zatch bell 2), 56 chapters
2 - Feng shen ji(2010-2014) by Jianhe Zheng, 182 chapters
some dude with a newspaper over his face posts videos online declaring some punishment for some wrongdoer
this gains him attention from the indifferent, haters, adorers and ofc the police
the story escalates with the increasing social status of the targets along with the declared punishments dished out
pretty neat cast, good art, very satisfying conclusion
22 chapters (sort of reminded me of a shorter akumetsu?)
4 - ping pong (1996-1997) by Taiyou Matsumoto
not much to say except really really good, it's sports so you know winning and losing came up, goals, drive, expectations, limitations, all really sold by the art and the characters in how the players viewed the sport, opponents, themselves and etc.
sports manga, and I have to say, though I am a big fan of the sport, as in playing it, I don't think not being a fan of, or not knowing anything about PP/TT or any sport for that matter will affect how you feel about this or any sports manga
55 chapters
3 - about the movement of the earth (2020-2022) by Uoto
idk what else they would have called it tbh but this manga is about the quest of astronomers back in the day, to prove the earth moved, specifically that it orbited the sun, and the persecution they faced from the Catholic church in doing so
62 chapters about 58 translated on mangadex
not the greatest of art but seeing all these folks passing along their research to strangers down through time, the aspirations and beliefs of those who carried the torch knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly was really rad
2 - die wergelder (2010 -ongoing) by Hiroaki Samura
if I had to be quick about it I'd say kill bill with extra pulp
basically the story revolves around 3 women and some missing suitcases originally meant to be used in a Yakuza deal
very sick character designs paired with very sick action, if
you've read blade of the immortal you know what I mean,
great cast, very dope dialogue, pretty enticing and unfolding story so far
31 chapters out
I have to say hiroaki writes some great women, right up there with fujimoto
1 - the fable(2014-2019) by Katsuhisa Minami,
hitman on vacation in the care of some Yakuza
stuff get a little out of hand with the Yakuza, getting a job to blend in, old enemies, new friends you name it
fucking hilarious
240 chapters
hm: wave, listen to me, magi of the library & the walking cat, a cat's eye view of the zombie apocalypse
then I get into a little part 2 just talking about some other other stuff
