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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
193513899np Japan nd ca. 1935. Hardcover. Near fine. Oblong 4to. double string-tied commercial album silk brocade bound 9" x 12". Containing 60 4.5" x 6" silver gelatin prints mounted to heavy gilt-edges card-stock one to a page both recto and verso. Printed captions in English additionally mounted below each photo. Near fine or better with only touches of wear to extremities. Quite well-preserved. <br/><br/>A handsome and rather lavish production by an unknown but likely professional photographer possibly as presentation for special occasion or visit from foreign dignitary/delegation. Undated but clearly pre-war and based on internal evidence ca. 1935-1940. A broad range of scenes from Japanese domestic and cultural life are included: cormorant fishing the tea ceremony flower arrangement Kabuki and Noh theater Sumo and other sports kendo archery battledore shuttlecock festivals musicians rice and tea harvesting as well as scenes of shrines temples cherry blossoms and gardens. More modern scenes include Tokyo street scenes a Nikko cable car and silk mill workers. An attractive and informative look at Japan in the years immediately preceding WWII. hardcover books
19301598251930. JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN. A Collection of approximately 200 labels for food and drink products. Various sizes mounted in an album. Small folio 305 x 225mm bound in pale blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. NP. ND. Japan 1930's. An eclectic collection of Japanese food and drink labels from the first quarter of the twentieth century. Fruits vegetables spirits candies canned meats and fishes are all represented on colourful labels featuring combined western and Japanese design sensibilities. They are neatly tipped into an accordion style album of thick pale blue paper and mostly remain in fine condition. unknown books
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. <br/><br/> Liaison Office, Osaka Railway Division hardcover books
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
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
194222314Tokyo: Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbunsha 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong 4to. Blue and silver boards in slipcase. Case structurally sound but heavily water-stained with scuffing and chipping to spine ends and corners. Boards lightly rubbed and bumped at corners. Endpapers toned. Very good in good slipcase. 72pp. <br/><br/>Black and white photographs of the Japanese navy during World War II dramatically composed and arranged for wartime propaganda purposes. Includes one of the earliest published sequence of images of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Additionally illustrated with maps and drawings. Text in Japanese. Scarce. Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbunsha hardcover books
1935857951935. MAGICIANS - JAPAN. TAMC KAIHÔ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE TOKYO AMATEUR MAGICIANS CLUB. Vol.1 #1 thru Vol.2 #1 5 issues in all. Published in Tokyo from January 1935 to May 1936. Text in Japanese but the first 4 issues of 4 and 8 pp. include translations into English on mimeographed sheets the last issue of 12 pp. includes no such translation. Illustrated with photo plates throughout. The first issue is a bit tattered else the others are good or better condition. Very unusual and interesting run of this ephemeral magazine. unknown books
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
194143024Japan 1941. Loose in a black clamshell box. Very good copies with slight curl; some with small edge or corner tears; 23 have the name of the film or featured actors/actresses rubber-stamped on the back in Japanese. 47 b/w photos. Approximately 6 x 4 inches. One duplicate. Most are group scenes from dramas a few portraits a few without characters; subject matter ranges from early historical dramas to contemporary scenes to the war and its effects. The dates have been verified on a few and all fall during the years of the Pacific War including Tadashi Imai's Tanjiko-mura 1940 "Hanagoyomi hasshojin" 1940 based on the 19th century novel "Josei hongan" 1940 made in the same year as the novel by Kan Kikuchi Yasuki Chiba's "Kuso buraku" 1939. The balance of the stills appear to date within approximately the same period. unknown books
19450088251945. Very good. Envelope only no letter. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />Clearly this information was not provided by the Japanese to the Red Cross as Mikucki's parents sent this letter ten months later. <br /><br />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 <i>Postal History of pf American POWs</i>. <br /><br /> books
19250379901925. Original photograph album. Very Good. Oblong string-tied album of black cardstock leaves 11" x 13" photographs mounted on 35pp blanks at the rear. Bound in black flexible boards with an embossed sailing ship and gilt lettering Photo-Album on the cover. Pasted in are 116 albumen and silver gelatin prints ranging from small candids to 8 ½" x 10 ½" group portraits a few fading overall sharp and clean. Laid into the album are a Japanese news article a small head-shot of an older gentleman and a watercolor portrait 10" x 8 ¼" of a man's face. Most of the photographs in this album. circa 1895-1925 were taken in Mie-Ken or "Mie prefecture" part of the Kansai region on the main island of Honshu. The group and individual portraits reflect new social and economic developments and cultural norms that emerged during this period. Subjects are shown in either traditional Japanese garments or in Western dress. Group shots often depict people wearing both styles within the same picture. There are many group shots of schoolchildren of both sexes young people in uniforms posed before buildings with Japanese signs on them as well as many formal group shots of families some "nuclear"-husband wife children- others extended by relatives. Individual shots of young children show them almost invariably in western dress one posed with his tricycle young boys in uniform a young girl in kimono showing a dance move while holding a fan infants in traditional robes and young men in business suits. Several birdseye views feature very large groups of rural people in traditional dress posed outdoors. Among the most striking photographs are: one 8 ½" x 10 ½" showing 11 doctors/ medical students posed around two corpses one smiling happily being dissected on two tables; four women and one man posed around a table doing handwork weaving tatting; men in western dress "strap-holding" inside a streetcar; and 5 actors 2 male 3 female on stage in costume. ~~ The Meiji period 1868-1912 saw the restoration of the Emperor this time with a centralized bureaucracy behind him after years of shogun rule. Japan was under heavy influence from Western political economic and educational models and the country became more capitalist industrial and progressively democratic offering free education to youngsters of both genders. Transportation and communications systems were modernized the feudal lords and samurai lost their power and a powerful national army and navy were created. By the early 1870s the government declared all classes of people to be equal. The Taishu period 1912-26 saw the continued influence of Western culture and values such as efficiency and individualism continued to replace more traditional ones. Japanese participation on the world stage continued to grow as the nation co-founded the League of Nations and emerged on the winning side in WWI. By 1925 there was universal male suffrage in Japan. Corruption in government increased however and the West began to form negative views of this newly-powerful non-white nation exacerbated by Japan's poor treatment of China. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1940862071940. CHILDREN'S - JAPAN TAKEI Takeo editor. Yôji Hyôjun Ehon OHISAMA TO OTSUKISAMA. Tokyo Showa 15 1940. Stiff wrappers about 10" x 7" illustrated in color throughout. The covers and the twelve double-page spreads within are printed after work by several important artists and illustrators including Takei himself. This is volume 7 of the "Standard Picture Books for Children" series its title could be translated as MADAM SUN AND MISTRESS MOON. It has a series of fifteen charming depictions of the influence and necessity of the sun and moon on our daily lives. No sign of the Imperial sun worship of the time save an explicit pictorial juxtaposition of the ancient Egyptians and modern Japanese worshipping the sun. The moon comes in to the picture at the very end as a guide for children on dark streets at night. The text is by Takei. The covers are a bit rubbed and slightly stained and soiled but overall a good copy of this extremely ephemeral publication. unknown books
197223967Japan: Otosaburo Moriizumi 1972. 10 rubbings made by Otosaburo Moriizumi; these are printed in black and white on fine thin Japanese paper; each rubbing tipped-on by its corners to a thin cardstock backer and with a dark blue gray or green stiff paper "window" surround; with a 4-sided folding explanatory sheet text in Japanese & English including a brief introduction by Shoji Hamada; with an illustration of Mr. Moriizumi biographical details and information on the rubbings; the author-collector "chose ten lovely carvings found in the Matsumoto district" for this selection; images and titles in Japanese of the images with the dates of creation if known these from 1695 - 1870 - the undated images from earlier times; and with the sizes of the original carvings in cm.; from the author's text: ".We often find a group of three or four naive stone-carved images at the village borders and crossings when we travel along olden ways of Shinano Province. It became popular among farmers to make this sort of stone images from the middle Edo period based on their belief. They prayed for fertility and prosperity by erecting such images representing Buddhist Shinto and folkloric deities. Among them the most prevalent is Dosojin a pair of male and female folkloric gods. They were considered to be patron gods for children and young couples and gods who brought the peace of the village and abundance of crops.Besides these independent images there are stone carvings known as koshin tower. .the relief of Blue-headed Kongo a Buddhist deity as the main image and that of the sun and moon above."; all items loosely contained in a blue paper-covered hardcover folding portfolio with paper title label printed in two colors; the overall size is approx. 15" x 19 3/4"; the art of varying sizes some taking the entire sheet some smaller; the portfolio contained in the original protective cardboard slipcase also with paper title label; some edgewear age-darkening and closed tears to cardstock slipcase; blue portfolio with light wear a few cover scratches; text portion with a little edge-creasing; one of the rubbing plates with a ¾" paper flaw or rub in the background paper; two of the green paper surrounding 'window' mounts with sunning to gold on the inner ½" of the border; the artwork in very good condition; an interesting Japanese folk-art collection iconic imagery. First Edition. Portfolio. Very Good. Otosaburo Moriizumi Hardcover books
192928505Paris: Musee du Jeu de Paume Jardin des Tuileries 1929. First Edition. Illustrated with 180 plates with 352 figures. 2 vols. 4to. Cloth wrappers printed in gold wrappers in chemise one joint split else fine. 2. First Edition. Illustrated with 180 plates with 352 figures. 2 vols. 4to. Musee du Jeu de Paume (Jardin des Tuileries) unknown books
1907309219London: Strker 1907. With 33 tipped in photographs with tipped "Farewell to the "Gneisenau" broadside small broadside of "Coronation of H.M.King George V printed in Yokohama 22nd June 1911.". 8vo. Black and blue cloth with button on cover from Captain of Gneisenau. With 33 tipped in photographs with tipped "Farewell to the "Gneisenau" broadside small broadside of "Coronation of H.M.King George V printed in Yokohama 22nd June 1911.". 8vo. Filled in with an English family's trip to Japan. Started in London on December 11 and boarded the Ship Gneisenau on the morning of the 12th reached Singapore Jan. 11 arrived Nagasaki Jan. 23. Strker unknown books
195021606Japan: Artist Published 1950. Group includes two country landscape scenes in color both signed lower left in black ink both approx. 9" x 13"; with 2 ink and wash heightened and accented with white paint winter scenes approx. 10" x 14 1/2" one signed lower right; and 2 ink washes waterside scenes 10" x 14 1/4" one signed lower left. Not dated and circa 1950s; all are laid-down on to paper backers. Light wear; one of the wash pieces with a thin line-scrape; the paper backers with wear and wrinkling in margins creasing couple short tears. The artworks are in very good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Artist Published Paperback books
1939866071939. ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN. KÔKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16 number 1. Tokyo Seibundo Showa 14 1939. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kôkokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Dômon was in charge of photography. The issues were full of scientific and perceptive articles and illustrated with color and bw plates and reproductions of posters ads signboards etc. etc. Despite a bi-lingual title on the title page inside the text is entirely in Japanese. Ephemeral issues from early Shôwa have largely disappeared. The fragile paper is in nice condition overall. unknown books
1939866041939. ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN. KÔKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16 number 6. Tokyo Seibundo Showa 14 1939. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kôkokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon was in charge opf photography. The issues were full of scientific and perceptive articles and illustrated with color and bw plates and reproductions of posters ads signboards etc. etc. Despite a bi-lingual title on the title page inside the text is entirely in Japanese. Ephemeral issues from early Showa have largely disappeared. The fragile paper is in nice condition overall. unknown books
1939866111939. ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN. KÔKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16 number 9. Tokyo Seibundo Showa 14 1939. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kôkokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon was in charge of photography. The issues were full of scientific and perceptive articles and illustrated with color and bw plates and reproductions of posters ads signboards etc. etc. Despite a bi-lingual title on the title page inside the text is entirely in Japanese. Ephemeral issues from early Showa have largely disappeared. unknown books
193555196Tokyo: Tokyo City Government 1935. First edition. Photographic views of Tokyo. 1 vols. Small oblong 4to. Flexible silk-wrapped boards with silk ties. Minor rubbing else Fine. First edition. Photographic views of Tokyo. 1 vols. Small oblong 4to. Tokyo City Government unknown books
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
1922409811922. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF JAPAN. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF BOTANY. Transactions and Abstracts. Tokyo: 1922-1941. Volumes 1-11 the serial continued until 1970. Vols. 2-11 bound in black cloth vol.1 #1-4 in wrappers. Wrappers torn at spines front wrapper missing of vol.1 #2. Some soiling at boards. Very good. unknown books
1904316621Boston: Dana Estes 1904. Illustrated with over 300 coloured plates and half tones. 438pp. 4to. Bound in modern half brown calf and marbled boards. Fine. Illustrated with over 300 coloured plates and half tones. 438pp. 4to. Dana Estes unknown books
1936316722London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd 1936. Bound ion three quarters modern polished crimson calf and marbled baords. Fine. T. Werner Laurie, Ltd unknown books
