Chiba, ReikoMareMagnum
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No dust jacket. Slightly soiled full red cloth boards. Tight Japanese-stab binding. Black and white illustrations. 29 pages. 4 1/2"w x 6 5/8"h. Explanations of each of the signs of the Japanese zodiac, faced with black and white drawings. The Japanese zodiac has a cycle of 12 years unlike people of the West who divide their zodiac in a cycle of 12 months. Each year of the cycle has its own particular animal symbol whose roots of meaning, origin, and influence stretch back to ancient India and China. Printed on different colors of paper folded so each page is double.
Second edition, 184 + 28pp., of adverts, orig. red cloth lettered in black.
Paperback, as new. xliii+372pp. glossary, index, 307 illustrations and line drawings by the author, introduction to the new edition, preface to second English edition, preface, introduction, glossary, index, illustrations by the author. The new introduction is by Terence Barrow. Reprint of the book first published in Boston in 1886, One of the most valuable early studies on late 19th century japanese buildings, City and village dwellings, construction, frame work, carpenter's tools, store houses, interiors, mats, screens, tea-rooms, the Tokunoma, and other kinds of houses. The various styles of roof covering, entrances and approaches, gardens, etc. A complete guide to traditional architecture in Japan.
365p. illus. Hardcover Very good very good d.j. good
365pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Good condition in tattered d.j. fair
First edition. Popular social history of Japan, told through the story of the Minaguchi-ya, an venerable inn on the Tokaido Road that is visited over a 400-year period by a myriad of travelers and guests, ranging from samurai warriors to Buddhist pilgrims. Jacket lightly rubbed, with a bit of mild sunning along the spine and some minor edgewear to the extremities; has Hiroshige woodblock print in full color, showing traditional inn; original Yellow and grey boards, red letters on spine. cloth and contents as new. Maps on endpapers.365 pp.,illustrated with fifty Japanese prints.
630 pages. Index. "Senryu enable us, as they enabled the Japanese, to understand and forgive others, and, what is vastly more important, to understand and forgive ourselves. Not only the life and character of the Japanese, but our own life and character are to be seen in this book, which is thus not merely a picture, but a mirror. Look well in it!" - from dust jacket. Decorated endpapers. Tissue-protected colour frontisplate. Book clean with light wear. Pencil underlining and marginalia to some pages. Moderate lean to spine. Binding tight. Average wear and soiling to dust jacket which bears a couple of short openings and several coffee drops. A sound copy. Book
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Tiny chip and slight browning to front free endpaper. ; Decorative red boards with white lettering and ornate decoration in black and gilt. ; Our Asiatic Neighbors; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 275, 6 pages
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
66 Sp. Farb. Frontis. Kl. 8°. Viele Abb.
161 pages. "Includes publications on Japanese music in Western languages which appeared through 1983. Some writings concerning dance, drama and/or performing arts of ritualistic nature are inevitably included, as certain aspects of Japanese music are indeed inseparable from such areas." - from Preface. Usual library markings. Moderate wear to forest green cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and tables in the text; green boards, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo pp.viii-306, excellent reprod. of the 12 plates.
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