Richard Douglas Lane  

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Images of the Floating World (1978)

Richard Lane (1926–2002) was a scholar, author, collector, and dealer of Japanese art, who was born in Kissimmee, Florida. After graduating from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where he was trained as a Japanese translator. He served as a marine in Japan during World War II. Lane received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Hawaii in Japanese and Chinese literature. He continued his studies at Columbia University, where he earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D in Eighteenth century Japanese literature. In 1957, he moved to Japan, where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1960 he married a physician named Chiyeko Okawa, to whom he remained married until her death in 1999.

Lane was never on a university faculty, but supported himself as an author, dealer and consultant. His publications include:

• Lane, Richard, Erotica Japonica: Masterworks of Shunga Painting, New York, Japan Publications, 1986. ISBN 0870406655
• Lane, Richard, Hokusai, Life and Work, New York, Dutton, 1989. ISBN 0525244557
• Lane, Richard, Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print, Including an Illustrated Dictionary of Ukiyo-e, New York, Putnam, 1978. ISBN 0399121935
• Lane, Richard, Japanische Holzschnitte, München Zürich, Droemersche, 1964.
• Lane, Richard, L'Estampe Japonaise, Paris, Aimery Somogy, 1962.
• Lane, Richard, Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: The European Collections Ukiyo-e from the Victoria and Albert Museum, New York, Kodansha America Inc, 1991. ISBN 9784770016133
• Lane, Richard, Masters of the Japanese Print, Their World and Their Work (The Arts of Man series), Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1962.
• Lane, Richard, Shinpen Shoki Hanga: Makurae (Shunga: The Ukiyo-e Primitives), Tokyo, Gakken, 1995. ISBN 4055001460
• Lane, Richard, Teihon Ukiyo-e Shunga Meihin Shusei (The Complete Ukiyo-e Shunga), Tokyo, Kawade Shobo Shinsha.
• Lane, Richard, Ukiyo-e Holschnitte. Künstler und Werke, Zürich, 1978.
• Lane, Richard Douglas, Hokusai to Hiroshige, Köln, Galerie Eike Moog, 1977.
• Michener, James A. with notes on the prints by Richard Lane, Japanese Prints, From the Early Masters to the Modern, Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959.

Lane and the Honolulu Academy of Arts

Richard Lane was a visiting research associate at the Honolulu Academy of Arts from 1957 to 1971, during which time he helped catalogue the James A. Michener collection of Japanese prints. In 2002, Lane died intestate and without heirs in Kyoto, Japan, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts purchased his collection from the Japanese judicial authorities. The Lane Collection consisted of nearly 20,000 paintings, prints and books. From October 2008 to February 2009, the Honolulu Academy of Arts exhibited a sampling of the collection under the title “Richard Lane and the Floating World”.

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• Honolulu Academy of Arts, “Delving into the Richard Lane Collection”, Calendar News, Honolulu Academy of Arts, November/December, 2008, 6–7.
• Johnson, Scott, “The Young Scholar Dick Lane and One of His First Loves”, Orientations, Volume 37, Number 6, September 2006.
• Little, Stephen, “The Richard Lane Collection”, Orientations, Volume 36, Number 2, March, 2005.