Japon

The Japan Advertiser; Benjamin Fleisher editorABAA

ENTHRONEMENT EDITION THE JAPAN ADVERTISER - ENTHRONEMENT OF THE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FOURTH EMPEROR OF JAPAN

192850317Tokyo: The Japan Advertiser 1928. First edition. Very good/Very good. Tokyo: The Japan Advertiser 1928. First edition. Many sepia photos also an original woodblock print of Himeji Castle by Hiroshi Yosida tipped in. 179 pp. . Folio. Eggplant silk Japanese style binding with silk ties and a large very colorful phoenix-like bird on the front cover. Very slight fading at top and bottom board edges where unprotected by dust wrapper or folding cover else in wonderful condition - vibrant; dust wrapper is mildly edge-frayed along top; folding protective case is splitting at folds and generally quite worn. Very good/Very good. Insurance required to ship this item. The Japan Advertiser unknown books

A. Parker's Books, Inc. · États-Unis250,00 $US≈ 211,52 €

THE JAPAN ADVERTISERABAA

ENTHRONEMENT OF THE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FOURTH EMPEROR OF JAPAN

1928897801928. JAPAN ADVERTISER. ENTHRONEMENT OF THE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FOURTH EMPEROR OF JAPAN. Tokyo: Benjamin Fleisher 1928. Folio-size purple cloth-covered boards with rooster decoration bound Japanese-style; xvi 179pp. With an original print by Hiroshi Yoshida opposite p.58. The nicest example we have seen bright in the original edgeworn dustwrapper and clasped chitsu cloth covered case with original printed paper title label. Extraordinary in this condition. unknown books

Boston Book Company · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPANABAA

EXHIBITION OF JAPANESE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE

29929THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN. EXHIBITION OF JAPANESE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. Washington: National Gallery of Art 1953. 4to. Stiff wrappers. 207 pages. Very good. unknown books

The Bookpress, Ltd. · États-Unis7,50 $US≈ 6,35 €

Sent by Mr. & Mrs A. Mikucki from Chicago to Private First Class Walter Mikucki at the Osaka Yodogawa Bunsho POW Camp in JapanABAA

Returned mail sent to a World War II Marine who was captured on Corregidor and died in a Japanese prison camp

19450088251945. Very good. Envelope only no letter. The envelope was addressed to Private First Class Walter Mikucki at the Osaka Yodogawa Bunsho POW Camp in Japan. It has a typed "Prisoner of War Postage Free" free frank in the upper right corner and has received a Chicago "War Savings machine postmark dated Jan 13 1944. The envelope was opened by a U.S. censor and resealed using censor tape annotated "Examined by 6587." The address was subsequently obliterated with a red cross and black bands using grease pencil or crayon. It has a circular handstamp in the lower right corner dated Nov 20 1945 with text that appears to read "LIBERATED HQ. USMC. WASH. D.C." There is a USMC "pointing finger" return-to-sender hand stamp that point to the return address. Pfc. Mikucki was a member of the 4th Marine Regiment when as war clouds rumbled in the Pacific it was sent from China to Corregidor to defend Manila Bay in the Philippines. Shortly after its arrival Japan launched its infamous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and allied bases throughout the Pacific. Corregidor was bombed continuously from late December 1941 until May 5 1942 when an overwhelming force of Japanese soldiers landed on the island. After tanks were brought ashore the following day Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright realized defeat was imminent and surrendered fearing the thousand or so wounded men and bedraggled defenders would be annihilated. Although most of the 4th Marine Regiment had been killed the remaining men were transported to prison camps in Japan. The Yodogawa Bunsho Camp near Osaka was one of the smallest Japanese prisoner of war camps and records in the National Archives identify only 12 prisoners that were known to have been held there. Pfc. Mikucki's name is not on that list. Other records show that Mikucki may also have been imprisoned at various times at the Itchioke Chikko and Umeda Bunsho camps. He died from unknown causes on March 11 1943. Clearly this information was not provided by the Japanese to the Red Cross as Mikucki's parents sent this letter ten months later. Examples of mail sent to American prisoners held in Japan are very scarce and this example may be unique for at the time of this listing I find no mention in philatelic or ephemera auction records in sale listings or institutional holdings of other returned mail for Corregidor Marines who died in Japanese prisoner of war camps . Also there is no mention of anything similar in Gruenzner's Postal History of pf American POWs. books

Read 'Em Again Books & Paper · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Red Cross Society of JapanABAA

Three Items: Articles of Association; Letter; and a 1901 Act

1907788321907. Paperback. Good. 1 Article of Association. n.p.: 1907. 9p. Wrapper. 22cm. Stitching gone.; 2 Autograph Letter unsigned dated Fed. 22 1910 acknowledging receipt of a contribution to the Society by the Honduran consul signed receipt laid in; and 3 three copies of a printed broadsheet which reprints a Dec. 1901 "Act concerning the Red Cross Society of Japan" on one side and the rules of Medals and badges and Rules of Subscriptions on the other side. All items sound but with a fair amount of spotting/staining. paperback books

McBlain Books · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

PHOTOMONTAGE; JAPANABAA

Showa Juninendo Renshu Kantai Enko Kinego.

19391652281939. PHOTOMONTAGE. Showa Juninendo Renshu Kantai Junko Kinego. Illustrated throughout with photomontages. With an illustrated map laid in. Oblong folio. 295 x 220 mm bound in publisher's green cloth. Tokyo: Teikoku Kaigunsha 1940. An elaborate and beautifully produced book commemorating the Japanese fleet's 1939 training exercises. As with many of this type of Japanese photobook there is a certain disconnect between great care lavished on the design from the decorative endpapers to the layout and the subject matter. Remains of staples in the gutter a very nice copy. OCLC records only 2 copies of which the one in the US is at Penn. hardcover books

Ursus Books · États-Unis975,00 $US≈ 824,95 €

Photography: Missionaries: JapanABAA

Photo Album of a Lutheran Missionary in Japan

19695ca. 1920-1931 Kyushu Japan. Very good . Oblong 4to. String-tied commecial album; black boards. Contains 57 gelatin-silver prints of various sizes including 8" by 10" 7.5" by 5" and smaller most of which are adhesive-mounted with several loose plus 11 postcards depicting Kyushu Lutheran churches and one bookmark. One photograph apparently perished; several others loosening from pages. Else apparently complete.Album edges moderately worn; one photo missing a chunk at edge. Most are lightly toned but overall clean. Very good or better. Well-assembled photo album compiled by an American Lutheran missionary to Japan whose face appears consistently in the majority of the photographs. The island of Kyushu is home to several Lutheran schools and churches including the Kyushu Gakuin Kyushu Lutheran College and the Janice James School both of which are pictured here having recently been built in the early 1900's. The Kyushu Lutheran mission was founded in 1893 by American missionaries; within several years they began building churches under the supervision of one Charles Lafayette Brown 1874-1921 and presumably the subjects pictured here with members of that particualr mission. The album features posed group photographs of large congregations Â— as large as roughly 150 Â— captioned with date and location in cities including Kurume Kamamoto and Saga; additionally included are many images of church services in progress plus several family portraits of church members. While Christianity began to spread when Japan phased out its isolationist policies in the 1850s Protestant evangilization in particular slowed under the military government of the Showa period the early years of which are covered by this album.These anti-Western trends were closely tied to the patriotic fervor that culminated in WWII. An absorbing visual archive of a prospering Protestant community and of American missionary activity in Imperial Japan. hardcover books

Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Photography Occupied Japan RailroadsABAA

ALBUM OF ROLLING STOCKS USED BY JAPANESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS

194760276NP Osaka Japan: Liaison Office Osaka Railway Division 1947. 4to. 66 pp. Text primarily in the form of charts includes types and measurements of main locomotives used for passenger and freight trains gasoline cars electric locomotives and cars passenger cars and freight cars. Mounted through the text are 89 original black and white photographs each measuring 4 x 6 inches of the rolling stock including a picture of the "Dixie Limited an express train for exclusive use of the Allied Forces running between Tokyo and Hakata." During World War II many Japanese companies were consolidated as part of the war effort. With Japan's defeat and occupation by allied forces the various conglomerates that had been created were broken up by order of the Supreme Commander Allied Powers. This included the Japanese railway companies though railroads remained a vital means of transportation not only for locals but for the occupying forces. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Light brown paper-covered boards; black lettered title on front board. A very good copy. Liaison Office, Osaka Railway Division hardcover books

Bartlebys Books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

PHOTOGRAPHY JAPAN. HOSHITA Eisho photographerABAA

SCENES ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAYS

1919875901919. PHOTOGRAPHY- JAPAN. HOSHITA Eishô photographer. SCENES ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAYS ZEN SHIBERI TESTUDÔ SHASHIN-CHÔ. Urajio Vladivostok Taishô 8 1919 Contemporary oblong folio rebacked. Album of 250 photo illustrations of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Allied Siberian Expedition 1918-1922 ranging in size from 3 5/8" x 5 1/8" to 8 3/4 x 11 1/2". Includes a panoramic bird's eye view of Vladovostok measuring 7 3/8' x 41 7/8/" and a fold out map of the route of the expedition measuring 14" x 29 3/4". Three-quarter leather stamped in gilt rebacked. The cloth and leather corner pieces are worn and rubbed. Captions in Japanese English and Russian with text in Japanese. title is taken from cover. Includes a number of pictures of partisan sabotage of railway between Chita and Krasnoyarsk. Hoshita Eishô produced at least two such albums of the warfare in the Russian Far East. Very unusual and important record of a "lost war unknown books

Boston Book Company · États-Unis7 500,00 $US≈ 6 345,75 €

Photography Japan 20th CenturyABAA

1922 Press Photograph of the Business Department of a Japanese Store

192222181Japan: International Newsreel 1922. Black and white photo of two traditionally-garbed Japanese men seated in a small shop; a ledger visible on floor hanging notices; Text of attached press notice states ".A customer who comes into the business department of a modern Japanese store to pay his bills sits on the edge of the "department" and keeps his dirty feet off the clean white matting for which the houses of Japan are famous."; approx. 6 1/2" x 8" size; notice attached to photo; International Newsreel studio stamp on back and 'Jap Drawer' handwritten; some edgewear crinkling to photo; in very good condition. . First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. International Newsreel Paperback books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis20,00 $US≈ 16,92 €

Photographic Society of JapanABAA

54 Master Photographers of 1960-1979

1989267375Tokyo: Toppan 1989. hardcover. fine/very good. Text in English and Japanese. 561 pages thick square 4to grey cloth black glossy French fold dust wrapper. Tokyo: Toppan 1989. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper just some light surface rubbing to wrapper. In protective cardboard sleeve Toppan unknown books

Argosy Book Store · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 42,31 €

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM JAPANABAA

ALBUM OF 85 SNAPSHOTS OF JAPAN 1916 - 1923 FUJIYAMA AND MORE

1923851721923. PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPAN ALBUM OF 85 SNAPSHOTS OF JAPAN 1916 - 1923 FUJIYAMA AND MORE PLUS SIX LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHS AND A PHOTO POSTCARD. 5 1/2 x 8 inch flexible black cloth covers cord-bound with "Photographs" in gilt on front cover. Black paper mounts neatly captioned in white ink mostly in English with some Japanese. Images are b/w sepia or color only two are in color and range in size from 2 1/4 x 3 inches to 4 x 6 inches. The majority 63 are the smaller size. The album is in good condition as are the page mounts and the photographs are in very good condition. The loose photographs range in size from 2 1/4 x 3 inches to 4 x 6 inches and are sepia or b/w. They are captioned in ink on the reverse. Most of the album photos depict expeditions to climb Fujiyama and various of the Japan Alps with scenes along the way of people and places -ecstatic pilgrims the Imperial bodyguard women's groups schoolchildren and the photographer and his many climbing companions foreign and Japanese. The owner is not identified although some of his companions are: Arnold Bauer Charles W. Copp Harry Collins Professor Fujimura McKinnon etc. along with a group of boys from Matsumoto High School and several others. Excellent and interesting group of photos of the breathtaking mountain scenery of Japan. Mountaineering was and is a defining interest of the Japanese - there are still gods in those mountains. unknown books

Boston Book Company · États-Unis985,00 $US≈ 833,41 €

PHOTO ALBUM JAPANABAA

25 OUTDOOR SCENES AND STUDIO PHOTOS

1884859271884. PHOTO ALBUM - JAPAN. 25 OUTDOOR SCENES AND STUDIO POSED PHOTOS. Small late 19th century oblong 12 x 18.3 cm album of albumen photos of landscape and city scenes genre shots of trades and customs in the studio each about 9.5 x 13.5 cm image size. Brocade covered boards. The images are skillfully handcolored with very little fading. The covers have a bit of rubbing and the condition overall is very good. With the inscription of Capt. John C. Cooper from 1884 and hence a bit earlier than most albums one sees and certainly more interesting. unknown books

Boston Book Company · États-Unis650,00 $US≈ 549,97 €

PHOTO ALBUM JAPANABAA

30 Albumen Scenes around Nikko

8482718. PHOTO ALBUM - JAPAN. 30 Albumen Scenes around Nikko. Small late 19th early 20th century oblong 11.5 x 17.8 cm album of albumen photos of Nikkô each about 9.5 x 14 cm. Simple lacquer covers. The images are bw with a bit of fading as usual. The condition overall is very good. $485.00. unknown books

Boston Book Company · États-Unis485,00 $US≈ 410,36 €

PHOTO ALBUM JAPANABAA

50 ALBUMEN OUTDOOR SCENES AND WOMEN

8575718. PHOTO ALBUM - JAPAN. 50 ALBUMEN OUTDOOR SCENES AND WOMEN. Small late 19th early 20th century oblong 13.4 x 18.3 cm album of albumen photos Half of the album is made up of shots of Japanese women in kimono in the studio and out. The other half is a catalogue of tourist scenes each about 9 x 13 cm image size. Decorated lacquer covers with insets. The images are handcolored with quite a bit of differential fading the reds stand out. The covers have a bit of edgewear and gouges but the condition overall is good. Interesting for its emphasis on women. unknown books

Boston Book Company · États-Unis385,00 $US≈ 325,75 €

Perry Japan Expedition: Black Ship ScrollABAA

NANPO GUEN. VISIT TO SHIMODA

1856WRCAM55468N.p. but probably Tokyo 1856. Ink and watercolor on twenty-five linen- mounted rice paper panels joined into a scroll measuring approximately 10 1/2 inches x 29 1/2 feet. Mounted on a wooden roller with silk tie housed in a custom balsa wood box. Intermittent creasing fairly regular small chips to bottom edge sometimes costing a bit of the image area. Very good. An incredible informative and beautifully rendered "Black Ship Scroll" giving a thirty- foot long visual account of the visit of Commodore Perry's U.S. naval squadron to Shimoda in the wake of the signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa. It is an awe-inspiring artifact of a momentous event in American and Japanese history and a brilliant work of art. Perry's 1854 arrival in the remote port of Shimoda aroused great curiosity and was recorded both by anonymous artisans as well as real artists the latter being the case for the present scroll. One of Perry's interpreters S. Wells Williams reported seeing similar scrolls depicting the naval visit just a few weeks after they anchored. He wrote in his account of the visit: "A pictorial representation of our squadron and description annexed and an account of the war between England and China were seen today by officers." Williams goes on the remark that it was forbidden to sell these scrolls to Americans and in fact being a non- trading closed society Japanese officials discouraged personal purchases of any kind by U.S. personnel. Evident in the present scroll is the Japanese fascination with American military technology. Perry's official account made note of the Japanese being insatiably inquisitive when invited on board: "When visiting the ship the mandarins and their attendants were never at rest: but went about peering into every nook and corner peeping into the muzzles of the guns.They were not contented to merely observing with their eyes but were constantly taking out their writing materials their mulberry bark paper." The present scroll depicts the deck and equipment details of one of Perry's frigate steamers as well as handsome harbor scenes of the numerous ships at anchor including a moonlight view brilliantly-colored American flags flying from the masts of the ships undulating coastlines maps of the locations of Perry's ships the narrative of their travel from Edo Bay a portrait of Commodore Perry and two of his interpreters and an account of naval gun salutes and the burial of a sailor with a rendering of his tombstone. Also shown is a small American military band large portraits of several of Perry's ships a detail of an American landing party departing one of the imposing Black Ships and much more. On the whole the expert illustrations give not only the details of Perry his men ships and their armaments but a sense of the level to which the American squadron impressed the Japanese. Accomplished by an artist that would almost certainly have had firsthand knowledge of the visit of the American squadron it is a far more artistically-polished memorial of Perry's extraordinary visit than many of the more folk-art type scrolls that make up the majority of surviving examples. Perry's sudden arrival near the entrance to Tokyo Bay at Uraga on July 8 1853 with two sloops and two paddle-steamer battleships carrying letters and gifts to deliver to the Emperor threw the Japanese authorities into a tailspin. The reports went back to the Emperor who immediately took ill presumably fearing an invasion. For several days there was a stand-off the smaller Japanese vessels amassing around the American vessels one of which had ninety-two cannons. Local warlord families took up arms all around the Bay and made promises of men for the defense of Edo. For five days the stand-off continued and Perry stayed in his cabin and let it be known he had a letter from President Fillmore to deliver to the Emperor and only the Emperor or his emissary could receive it. The Japanese first threatened him then tried to bribe him to leave and go to Nagasaki to complete his mission. Perry stood firm and ignored the Japanese demands. Perry sent out smaller boats to start surveying the area and the Japanese stood aside wondering if the cannon would strike them. On July 14 a hastily erected tent was put up on the shore of the bay and two sons of the Emperor Princes Ido and Toda came down by Imperial barge from Edo and sat in the tent to receive the letters. Perry arrived with his troops his marching band playing flags flying. He formally delivered the letters and said he would be back in a year for an answer to the President's call for a trade treaty with Japan protection for shipwrecked sailors and the establishment of refueling stations for American ships in the Western Pacific. The Japanese asked Perry to leave quickly but he stayed anchored for a further three days then spent some time doing surveys of other parts of Edo Bay returning via Okinawa to winter at the American station in Hong Kong. Perry returned the following February with a larger flotilla strengthened by newly- completed battleship steamers sent out from the United States. The second meeting took place at Yokohama from February to June 1854 where Perry insisted that negotiations begin and at that time there was an exchange of diplomatic gifts. A provisional treaty was signed in 1854 but the full trading treaty was not completed until 1858 after Townsend Harris came to Japan as U.S. Consul and set about finalizing the negotiations. Perry's return in 1854 with a much more substantial force provoked the same curiosity and trepidation among the Japanese populace as his first visit if not more so and it is this second visit that is captured in the present scroll. The Americans arrived by steam frigates the "black ships of evil men" as well as under sail with their canons and howitzers conspicuous. This second visit to Edo Bay was a purposeful display of the United States' superior military force to impress an essentially feudal society - all the better for Perry to encourage the signing of a treaty allowing American whalers to use the islands as a resupply outpost of America's burgeoning economic empire and Pacific expansion. Following the signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa on March 31 1854 Perry visited the two ports named as open to American ships Shimoda and Hakodate. Americans were also allowed to travel inland from these ports to a proscribed distance of seven ri approximately seventeen miles. Officers were allowed onshore and the manners appearance and customs of the Americans were of nearly insatiable interest to the inhabitants of these remote fishing villages. This was the first interaction common Japanese citizens had with Westerners. The present scroll descends from the Perry family specifically Calbraith Perry Rodgers famed aviator and Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's great-grandnephew. The scroll is accompanied by a later typed transcription of an 1858 account of Commodore Perry's life by R.S. Rodgers. One of the more impressive examples of a Black Ship Scroll documenting Perry's second interaction with the Japanese rulers and people executed by an accomplished Japanese artist and descended through the Perry family. unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis62 500,00 $US≈ 52 881,25 €

Perry Japan ExpeditionABAA

MANUSCRIPT MENU FOR A BANQUET GIVEN AT THE YOKOHAMA TREATY HOUSE FOR THE AMERICAN DELEGATION LED BY COMMODORE PERRY

1854WRCAM52135Yokohama 1854. 1p. Oblong folio sheet previously folded. A couple minor creases with very light dampstaining at foot of sheet. Very good. An impressive survival from Commodore Perry's expedition a decorative manuscript menu from the banquet that celebrated the agreement of the Treaty of Kanagawa between the United States and Japan in 1854. Although an official and extensive trade agreement between the two countries was not reached until 1858 the Treaty of Kanagawa achieved Perry and the United States government's primary goal of opening Japan to U.S. trade by allowing the use of two ports at Shimoda and Hakodate by American ships granting a degree of freedom of movement to American sailors while in port and establishing diplomatic relations via the appointment of an American consul. The banquet was held in the Treaty House at Yokohama which had been purpose-built for negotiating the agreement between the two countries. It was a return engagement following a first event hosted by the Americans on board Perry's flagship the U.S.S. Powhatan at which copious amounts of lamb beef and whiskey were reportedly served. The menu for the Japanese meal reflected the country's altogether different culinary tastes offering a long series of soup and seafood courses including sea bream and a number of other fish. It is unclear which side found the other's food more distasteful but Perry remarked that the Japanese offerings "Seemed particularly meager in comparison with American fare and soup however desirable in its proper place was found to be but a poor substitute for a round of beef or a haunch of mutton." For their part the Japanese were unimpressed by the Americans' loud and uncouth behavior at the event and were amused by their inability to use chopsticks. Despite the reservations of each side the banquet served as a capstone to one of the most critical moments in the development of Japanese-American relations. This possibly unique piece of ephemera is a wonderful document of that entertaining cross-cultural episode and the culmination of the Perry expedition. unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis4 000,00 $US≈ 3 384,40 €

Perry Japan ExpeditionABAA

SUBSTANTIAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE BOUND IN ONE VOLUME CONTAINING CONTEMPORARY REPORTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS PERTAINING TO COMMODORE PERRY'S ARRIVAL IN JAPAN

1859WRCAM55020Japan 1859. 354pp. including twelve full-page or double- page ink and watercolor wash illustrations. Contemporary Japanese wrappers string-tied paper label completed in manuscript on front cover. Noticeable wear and rubbing to the binding newer string. Uneven worming throughout mostly unobtrusive. About very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box spine gilt with raised bands. Large bound collection of contemporary manuscript papers documents and drawings relating to Commodore Perry and the Black Ships entering Edo Bay in July 1853. The text is comprised of accounts of the event and transcriptions of official letters from President Millard Fillmore Secretary of State Edward Everett and Commodore Perry to the Japanese Emperor. Illustrations include two double-hemispheric world maps a map showing the course of the Black Ship squadron Edo Bay and the landing of the ships Perry's marines marching sketches of large cannons aboard Perry's ships and diagrams and fortifications protecting the Japanese people from foreign invasion. In 1852 Perry was appointed head of a naval expedition charged with inducing the Japanese government to establish diplomatic relations with the United States. The expedition involved two visits to Japan. On his first Perry arrived at Edo Bay on July 8 1853. After a brief standoff and show of force he was able to land the following week and deliver a letter from President Fillmore with the U.S. demands with the promise he would return the following year for a reply. On February 13 1854 Perry returned with a total of ten vessels and 1600 men. After another standoff and three weeks of negotiation Perry signed the Convention of Kanagawa at the end of March 1854 which opened the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American ships provided for care of shipwrecked sailors and the establishment of an American consulate in Shimoda. "The most important result however was that the visit contributed to the collapse of the feudal regime and to the modernization of Japan" - Hill. Altogether a very comprehensive manuscript archive of this important occasion that helped open Japan to world commerce and culture. HILL 1332 ref. hardcover books

William Reese Company · États-Unis10 750,00 $US≈ 9 095,57 €

Perry Japan ExpeditionABAA

TAIHEI KAN

1853WRCAM55689Japan 1853. 14pp. including three double-page woodblock illustrations. Gathered signatures stitched as issued. Mild wear. Near fine. Rare kawaraban newsbook announcing the arrival of Commodore Perry and the Black Ships to Japan in 1853. The work includes three double-page illustrations: a dominating portrait of Perry's flagship; Perry and a contingent of marines marching in procession to a meeting with local dignitaries at Kurihama with two cabin boys carrying boxes presumably official gifts or President Fillmore's letter requesting harmonious commerce; and a map of Edo Bay where the Black Ships entered. Listings of the Samurai and Daimyo Feudal Lords entrusted with the protection of Japan from foreign invasion are found on the final leaves. Such kawaraban - news sheets broadsides or small periodicals - provided the most immediate contemporary news of events in Japan including Commodore Perry's momentous first visit. unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis4 500,00 $US≈ 3 807,45 €

Perry Japan ExpeditionABAA

URAGA NO OMOKAGE SITUATION IN URAGA

1853WRCAM52129Uraga Bay Japan 1853. Pen and ink manuscript scroll on thick mulberry paper in Japanese 10 1/2 x 125 inches. Mounted on a wooden roller and with a small contemporary cloth extension panel to the scroll cotton tie. Manuscript backed on thick paper a few worm holes at upper margin of the final panel occasional brown stain at upper margins of first few panels a few tiny holes some old creases. Very good. A Japanese manuscript depiction showing the parade of Commodore Matthew Perry and his forces on the shore at Uraga Bay to visit the Japanese Princes on July 14 1853. An important piece of American naval and diplomatic history and a rare survival of a Japanese "Black Ship" Scroll for the 1853 arrival of Perry this is one of only a handful to have survived. Perry's sudden arrival near the entrance to Tokyo Bay at Uraga on July 8 1853 with two sloops and two paddle-steamer battleships carrying letters and gifts to deliver to the Emperor threw the Japanese authorities into a tailspin. The reports went back to the Emperor who immediately took ill presumably fearing an invasion. For several days there was a stand-off the smaller Japanese vessels amassing around the American vessels one of which had ninety-two cannons. Local warlord families took up arms all around the Bay and made promises of men for the defense of Edo. For five days the stand-off continued and Perry stayed in his cabin and let it be known he had a letter from President Fillmore to deliver to the Emperor and only the Emperor or his emissary could receive it. The Japanese first threatened him then tried to bribe him to leave and go to Nagasaki to complete his mission. Perry stood firm and ignored the Japanese demands. Perry sent out smaller boats to start surveying the area and the Japanese stood aside wondering if the cannon would strike them. On July 14 a hastily erected tent was put up on the shore of the bay and two sons of the Emperor Princes Ido and Toda came down by Imperial barge from Edo and sat in the tent to receive the letters. Perry arrived with his troops his marching band playing the Stars and Stripes flags flying. He formally delivered the letters and said he would be back in a year for an answer to the President's call for a trade treaty with Japan protection for shipwrecked sailors and the establishment of refueling stations for American ships in the Western Pacific. The Japanese asked him to leave quickly but he stayed anchored for a further three days then spent some time doing surveys of other parts of Edo Bay returning via Okinawa to winter at the American station in Hong Kong. He returned the following February with a larger flotilla strengthened by newly- completed battleship steamers sent out from the States. The second meeting took place at Yokohama from February to June 1854 where Perry insisted that negotiations begin and at that time there was an exchange of diplomatic gifts. A provisional treaty was signed in 1854 but the full trading treaty was not completed until 1858 after Townsend Harris came to Japan as U.S. Consul and set about finalizing the negotiations. The artist of this piece certainly documented the action well. It begins with a panel showing an American officer and three soldiers from the ship continues with eight sketches of hats seven instruments of the band and a naval sword two small barges that brought the crew and troops to the shore a detailed annotated sketch of the flagship Susquehanna followed by the procession of the 300 Americans from the shore to the receiving tents the Stars and Stripes waving and including the band and a similar sketch of the Japanese procession with clan banners a sketch of the receiving area with a parade ground and two tents and a final view of Uraga Bay with the four American ships at anchor and the landing place on the shoreline. While the census for the scrolls and scroll fragments depicting Perry's second arrival in 1854 number at least twenty in institutional hands for the 1853 arrival of Perry we locate only one - a ten-foot watercolor scroll in the British Museum for which this is either a precursor or a contemporary near- copy. A close comparison with the British Museum scroll has yet to be accomplished but there are textual differences in some of the captions and it appears from the sketchy monochrome nature and uncolored state of this scroll that it is more likely a provisional sketch done from observation by a Japanese artist who attended the event rather than a contemporary finished scroll. It is likely that after the meeting with Perry the warlord attendees would have been presented with a finished watercolor scroll. This scroll may well be the original provisional version of that finished sketch. An extraordinarily rare and important "Black Ship" Japanese scroll. hardcover books

William Reese Company · États-Unis47 500,00 $US≈ 40 189,75 €

Perry Expedition: JapanABAA

THREE CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNTS OF THE ARRIVAL OF COMMODORE PERRY IN JAPAN INCLUDING A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT REPORT OF EVENTS

1853WRCAM53554Edo 1853. 31; 31; 61pp. plus a loose sheet. Original paper wrappers stitched. Contemporary manuscript annotations in red ink in one volume. Scattered worming heavy in places. Some dampstaining and dust soiling. About very good. Three fascinating Japanese manuscript accounts of the arrival of Commodore Perry to Japan in 1853. Then first URAGA KUROTONE NI KANSARU or "The Black Ship Arriving in Uraga" comprises the official government report of events when Perry steamed into Uraga Bay. This volume contains contemporary edits to the text in red ink. The second account of Perry's arrival EDO URAGA BIKOKU FUNE TORAI IKKEN or "Arrival of the Ships at Uraga" contains a double-page manuscript sketch of the coastline of Uraga Bay together with the disposition of Perry's ships. The final volume consists of a third manuscript entitled GASSHUKKO SHOKAN WAGE UTSUSHI a copy of the report on the Perry arrival prepared by Abe Masahiro Chief Senior Councillor in the Toguwara Shogunate which includes translations of the letters from Fillmore and Perry delivered by Perry on July 8 1853. Also with a single manuscript sheet that provides a description of Perry's ship. Vital contemporary manuscript accounts of this monumental transformation in Japanese foreign relations from significant Japanese participants in events. unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis12 500,00 $US≈ 10 576,25 €

Osaka Japan: Osaka Municipal Art Museum Oct. 1 to Nov. 14 1954ABAA

Clay Figures of Ancient China

1954254221954. Softcover. VG- some fading along cover edges a bit of writing on inside back cover. Pale green wraps. Appx. 75 pp. 1 color 64 bw plates. Includes a checklist of 64 works in English. Essays & descriptions of the plates in Japanese. Essays include "Chinese Clay Figures" "Remarks on the Han Tombs of To-chi-t'ai Shensi Province" and "Folk Tales Concerning Mortuary Ware" paperback books

Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis65,00 $US≈ 55,00 €

Organizing Committee of Japan.ABAA

The Second ISSOL Meeting and the Fifth International Conference on the Origin of Life. Abstract.

1977S8099Kyoto:: Organizing Committee of Japan 1977. 1977. 4to. 50 pp. Abstracts index. Printed wrappers. FINE. Includes a typed letter from a Japanese school boy to Caltech professor Norman Horowitz concerning the issue of life on Mars with an ms. response by Horowitz whose famous experiment to detect carbon based life on Mars is featured as an abstract in this publication. Organizing Committee of Japan, 1977. unknown books

Jeff Weber Rare Books · Suisse75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

Northern Japan Earthquake Relief FundABAA

NJERF Fund Summary Report: March 11 2011 to March 31 2014

2014215377San Francisco: Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California 2014. 127p. very good softcover 8.5x11 inches. Color photographs. Report on aid by the San Francisco-based organization with help from community groups and institutions such as the Giants baseball team. Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California unknown books

Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis20,00 $US≈ 16,92 €

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