Jean Crasset (1618-1692)Biblio.com
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1715E05562 volumes. 2865911 pages with 4 plates and index; 106786 pages with 4 plates one folding and index. Quarto 10" x 8" bound in half leather with raised spine bands in gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Streit-Dindinger VI 1418. Second edition of a 1689 history of missions to Japan prefaced with a general account of the country.<br /><br />Jean Crasset was an ascetical writer born at Dieppe France 3 January 1618 and died at Paris 4 January 1692. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1638 became professor of humanities and philosophy was director for twenty-three years of a famous sodality of men connected with the professed house of the Jesuits in Paris and was also a successful preacher. Crasset is the author of many ascetical works among which are:Methode d'oraison; Considérationes chrétiennes pour tous les jours de l'année; La chrétienne in soli tude; Dissertation sur les oracles des Sibylles which was vigorously attacked; Entretiens pour la jeunesse. He also published in 1689 a Historie de l'église du japon which has been translated into several languages but which is considered inferior to that of Charlevoix. Crasset's history was scarcely original for it was drawn in great part from the work which Father Solier had issued in 1627; he merely retouched the style and continued the narrative from 1624 to 1658. The objection is made that the work lacks precision is heavy and is crowded with details. The author attributed the origin of the persecution of 1597 to the imprudence of the friars in making their religious ceremonies public. There is a posthumous work of his entitled La foy victorieuse de l'infidélite et du libertinage. On 9 September 1656 the Bishop of Orléans issued an interdict against him for having in one of his sermons charged several ecclesiastics with sustaining the propositions condemned by the Bull of Innocent X Cum occasione 31 May 1653. The interdict was removed in the following February.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Nicely rebound in half leather. Contents toned and damp-stained St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on titles else a very good set. François Montalant hardcover
193157130Kyoto Japan: Daimaru Department Store Matsuzaki & Co. Ltd. 1931. Oblong 4to. 12.25 x 9 in. 2 leaves 31 thick leaves w/ tipped-in silver gelatin photographs 6 hand-coloured and 29 retaining their textured printed tissue guards. Ornate & embossed padded leather post-binder tooled panel & borders on front cover of the Daimaru Villa embossed geometrical patterns on spine & back cover wear to fore-edges wear to corners some scuffing head & foot of spine old cloth repair rear hinge occasional tears to tissue guards still a nice copy w/ all the photos bright and w/ excellent contrast. First edition thus of this fascinating photographic souvenir album for the Daimaru Villa a half-timber Tudor Revival home designed by Vories. The American missionary turned noted architect had recently finished the Doremus School in Yokahama and was executing designs for the Daimaru Department Store in Osaka as well as the Kobe College in Nishinomiya City while working on the Villa. Shimomura XXI 1883-1944 was Chairman of the Daimaru Department Store Chain and an accomplished photographer whose talents are well-represented in this album. Opening with a birds-eye view of the recently completed home he presents an interior tour of the home including the Reception Hall Living Room featuring the geometric pattern reproduced on the spine & back cover of the album the Garden Sun Dial the brightly coloured Sun Room Dining Room and Butler’s Pantry the Stair Hall featuring reproductions of the “Unicorn Tapestries†the Family Shrine Weathervane and night view of the home from the garden. One of the hand-coloured photos shows off the vivid Art Deco architectural details and tile in the bathroom filled with reds blacks & greens. The Matsuzaki & Co. Ltd. were well known for producing luggage and leather novelties sold in Daimaru Department Stores in Japan during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Shimomura’s photos were exhibited in the Ashiya Photo Salons of 1935-1937 and also featured later in the art magazine Geijyutu Shinchou. Daimaru Department Store, Matsuzaki & Co., Ltd., hardcover
19802092902138900104Kodansha 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 Kodansha paperback
19742091502135700292Japan Senba Corporation 1974. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Japan Senba Corporation paperback
20062083002115803876Japan Statistical Association Mainichi Shimbun 2006. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 29 Japan Statistical Association Mainichi Shimbun paperback
2091502135201573Japan Society of Civil Engineers 1936 N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Japan Society of Civil Engineers 1936 paperback
2080502106906417Chuo Keizai Publishing Co. Ltd. N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chuo Keizai Publishing Co., Ltd. paperback
20012110502151005605Iwanamishoten 2001. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 50 Iwanamishoten paperback
2081002109000147Kodansha N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 31 books Kodansha paperback
4822320243New. Brand new and still unused unknown
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1949370387Kobe or Fukuoka Japan 1949. Approx. 145 photographs mostly 3x2 inches some 1-1/2x1 and a few 4-1/2x3 inches or larger. Inserted on photo corners or with small strips of cellotape at the corners. Many captioned in English or Japanese. Some images missing a few loose photographs inserted. Signed by Tadao Maeda on the rear endpaper. Approx. 7x6 inches. Contemporary dark green cloth minor wear. Approx. 145 photographs mostly 3x2 inches some 1-1/2x1 and a few 4-1/2x3 inches or larger. Inserted on photo corners or with small strips of cellotape at the corners. Many captioned in English or Japanese. Some images missing a few loose photographs inserted. Signed by Tadao Maeda on the rear endpaper. Approx. 7x6 inches. The snapshots comprise mostly images of Japanese soldiers attached to the U.S. regiment outside of barracks or on bases but also street scenes family members unknown
193833168Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company 1938. Very Good. Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company 1938. Presumed First Edition. 12mo 15.5 cm; publisher's pictorial yellow and orange card wrappers lettered in black; 1923pp.; brief illus. sheet music throughout. Moderate wear and dust-soiled to wrappers small loss mid-spine briefly affecting text textblock a bit browned and foxed else Very Good bright and sound. <br /> <br /> Evidently unrecorded Japanese guide to popular jazz music the first half almost entirely in Japanese the latter half bilingual primarily in Japanese and English. Includes the music for classics by Jerome Kern like "Ol' Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"; Romberg and Hammerstein's "Lover Come Back To Me"; Moises Simons' Cuban rumba foxtrot "The Peanut Vendor"; instantly recognizable classics like "Blue Moon" and "La Cucaracha"; and songs by Mabel Wayne and Irving Berlin. The compilation also includes songs in Spanish French and German accompanied by its Japanese translation. <br /> <br /> A fascinating and beautiful little guide documenting the rise in popularity of Jazz music in Japan and Tokyo in particular issued between the devastating earthquake of 1923 and the beginning of World War II. The import of Jazz to Japan was first heralded with the rise in trans-Pacific luxury liners. A Japanese version of "My Blue Heaven" reproduced here became available as early as the 1920s and the popular 1929 Japanese film "Tokyo March" employed Jazz in its soundtrack. The genre was popular enough that Columbia and Victor records formed subsidiary companies in Japan.<br /> <br /> The popularity of jazz in Japan continues to this day touted by one of the country's most prominent public and literary figures Haruki Murakami who first opened his Jazz club right out of college after falling in love with the genre at an Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers show in Kobe in 1964. <br /> <br /> No copies of this work located in OCLC as of June 2025. <br /> <br /> References: <br /> <br /> "How Japan Came To Love Jazz" online interview with historian E. Taylor Atkins author of "Blue Nippon"<br /> <br /> "Jazz Messenger" by Haruki Murakami available online. Symphony Publishing Company unknown
1950184651950. Photographic archive of ninety-one silver gelatin prints dating from the 1950s to early 1960s documents the daily military and civilian life of an African American soldier stationed in Japan during the early Cold War less than a decade after President Harry S. Truman's 1948 executive order mandating desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces. The images capture integrated base life among Black and white servicemen recreational sports teams missile operations and family networks extending between the United States and overseas postings. Produced during a period when the U.S. military served as one of the first federally desegregated institutions the archive situates African American service within the broader context of Cold War geopolitics and the American presence in postwar Japan.<br /> <br /> Archive consists of ninety-one original vernacular silver gelatin photographs measuring approximately 4 x 5 inches to 3 x 2 inches. Images depict soldiers in baseball uniforms preparing for games vehicles transporting players and spectators group portraits on base with tanks trucks and jet aircraft visible in the background and individual uniformed portraits including one dated 1957 on the verso. One photograph dated "APR 1959" records a missile launch reflecting the technological environment of mid-century military installations. Additional images show African American children in a classroom family members and friends stateside and leisure scenes including three African American men dressed for golf beside a vehicle while the principal subject leans from the window. Several photographs include handwritten inscriptions on the verso addressed to the soldier's wife. Roughly one-third of the images prominently depict African American servicemen often the same two soldiers interacting with both Black and white peers; others show interactions with Japanese civilians and mixed-race groups on base.<br /> <br /> Created during the consolidation of U.S.-Japan security alliances and amid the evolving implementation of military desegregation the photographs provide visual evidence of integrated service life recreation and family continuity within overseas deployments. The juxtaposition of sports missile testing domestic scenes and cross-cultural encounters reflects the layered realities of African American military experience in the 1950s. Photographs slightly bowed; images crisp with strong detail and clear compositions. Overall very good condition. Cohesive vernacular record of Black military service and everyday life in early Cold War Japan. unknown
19421686141942. JAPAN. Front 1942. In Japanese. Numbers 1-2. Folio bound in original photographic wrappers preserved in a new cloth box. Tokyo: Tohosha 1942. $1500.00 This is the Japanese language edition of the great propaganda magazine Front which appeared in some 15 different languages and is clearly modeled on USSR in Construction. This version combines the first and second number dedicated to the Imperial Navy and its "defense of Asia". Among the stunning photograph are ones showing the attacks on European holdings in Southeast Asia and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Under the direction of Kimura Ihei Front used the talents of some of the most important of Japan's photographers. The layout was designed under the direction of Hara Hiromu. Some wear to wrappers. All issues are extremely rare. Ryuichi and Heiting. The Japanese Photobook no.89. hardcover
19732091502135702560Center for Historical Japanese Medicine Kodansha 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Center for Historical Japanese Medicine Kodansha paperback
193057126Kyoto Japan: n.p. ca. 1930. 4to. 136 leaves samples on many different coloured papers mixture of colour Japanese woodblock printed samples many hand-painted manuscript designs all w/ stamped artist signature on versos inventory No. and pricing on versos 5 of the leaves are die-cut overlays for the painted designs below on similar coloured paper framing them as they would have appeared in the completed product. Contemporary colour wood-block printed softcovers punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ gold silk braid cover art by Watanabe Kokan 1877-1938 a noted Taisho-era Japanese artist who founded a freelance artists group following World War I occasional tidemark & offsetting in sections some offsetting of inks and images minor wear & thumbing to fore-edges & spine from use still a VG- copy. An exceptional original manuscript and woodblock printed sample book for Japanese fan designs in the early Showa period between the Wars. With all having penciled prices in Arabic numerals this appears to have been intended for the export market to the West with the opening designs on a silk-like woven paper with glittery sheen images including Mt. Fuji cranes snails Ikebana and others. The handpainted designs encompass a Noh actress in the play Izutsu based on painting by Uragami Shunpo 1820-1849 artfully rendered song birds Japanese toys masks and more. The artists for these designs include Watanabe Kokan Konishi Fukunen 1887-1959 and Takehisa Yumeji 1884-1934 who has incorporated haiku into his image of a woman in kimono under a bell and others. In a few of them the Japanese artists appears to have painstakingly painted in dots elaborate ornamental borders and designs reminiscent of white design elements left on indigo kimono textiles with the Katagami paper stencils technique. Many of them reflect bold Art Deco influences vivid and bright primary colours the use of metallic inks and several with traditional Japanese design elements as well as some with bats others with bamboo and botanical specimens and even one with a kite carrying away the flier. No copies located in Worldcat. n.p., paperback
1861173654London.: Richard Bentley. 1861. First edition hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and black and white text illustrations i-xxxii 350pp with a final advertisment leaf of Bentley's Standard Novels 19.4 x 13cm original blind-stamped blue cloth boards gilt-lettered spine dulled and gilt vignette of a ship with pennants a flutter to the top board slight spotting mainly limited to the endpapers and age toning to the edges of the text old varnish to the boards obscuring gilt lettering to spine and dulling the gilt to the ship vignette corners tender but a good clean example of a title scarce on the market. Written in the year Japan opened its doors to foreign trade but published three years later by the first British Consul to Nagasaki Christopher Pemberton Hodgson he also served as French Consul. As well as giving a key survey of a landmark period including the structure of society religion and Japanese attitudes to the West Hodgson importantly includes a catalogue of Japanese plants with an index prepared by the eminent botanist Sir William Hooker the work's dedicatee and his own on natural history. Pemberton noted his keen interest in botany and geology in an earlier work written after a turbulent five years on the Darling Downs in Australia. The present work also includes a lengthy chapter by Pemberton's wife taken from letters to her mother noting her experiences and impressions. . Richard Bentley. hardcover
20202081502111906542Shanghai Book Publishing House 2020. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shanghai Book Publishing House paperback
19922091202133200392Japan Museum of Modern Literature 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 33 books in total Japan Museum of Modern Literature paperback
19732081402110000195Naikaku Library 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 Naikaku Library paperback
19822090502125401054Horupushuppan 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 pair Horupushuppan paperback
19812091502135200115Azusagawa shobo 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 27cm Number of books: 2 Azusagawa shobo paperback
19942080402107100140Not Available 1994. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 27 books set Not Available paperback
182314852AB1823. London Ackermann 1823. 14 : 9 cm. XIII 286 pages 20 hand-coloured engravings. Full calf in contemporary style richly blind-tooled with the name Japan on booth boards spine with title and date gilt in marbled paper slip-case. First and only edition. A very early resource on all aspects of Japan and the Japanese. Here in an wonderful copy complete very clean and in an outstinding binding. The beautiful hand-colopured engravings show all different aspects of Japan. A comprehensive early guide to the Japanese Islands Buddhism missionaries architecture language woman festivals Yezo Hokkaido Ainu arts science suicide infanticide earthquakes moral character cleanliness fondness of strong liquuors from of goverment etc. etc. hardcover
