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1852864251852. MAP - JAPAN SEKISUI Chô & SUZUKI Kien. ZOTEI DAI NIHON KOKUGUN YOCHI ROTEI ZENZU. Edo Osaka & Kyoto. Zodiacal date of Kaei 5 1852. Identical to the copy illustrated online from the UC Berkeley collection save that their copy is a standard one-piece folding map in covers. See: http://www.lunacommons.org/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~9~1~24 291~110045:Zotei-Dai-Nihon-kokugun-yochi-rotei Ours is the same size when assembled some 102 x 183 cm but is bound in 12 separate folding sections each identified on the cover by area each approximately 35 x 46 cm. This would seem to have been done by the publisher for ease of use a series of "pocket maps". They are all enclosed in a small clasped chitsu case some 12 x 8 x 3 cm in size with a mica-paper liner and a cloth exterior. There is a smaller size version some 72 x 40 at 1852.1 in the first volume of Beans referenced from Ramming 1934 at #28 - obviously a misprint of some kind as it would be hard to understand a smaller size recut map existing. In any case a very interesting format and a lovely detailed map in a "modern" style employing degrees of latitude but printed in traditional color woodblock. Very good condition impression and colors. An excellent example of Japanese cartography in transition. unknown 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
1950228536Nagoya Japan Aichi Trade Institution n.y. ca. 1950. 1950. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with original woolen and worsted swatches and illustrations; Japanese advertisements throughout. Original spiral bound color stiff pictorial wrappers. Very good. Unpaginated. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. [Nagoya, Japan, Aichi Trade Institution, n.y., ca. 1950]. paperback books
196724625Tokyo Japan: The Japan Times Ltd. 1967. 30 pages with black and white illustrations. Contents with Kabuki miscellanea discussing the Hanamichi: a Second Stage and the various presentations including Ayatsuri Sambaso Yoshinogawa the Kongen Kusozuri Biki and Fuji Musume dances Nozaki Mura Ehon Taiko Ki Saigo to Butahime Kohjo ceremony with participants being recognized for their great skills earned in the world of Kabuki performers; also the Honcho Nijushi Ko Sannin Katawa. Advertisements on endpapers for the Hamaseiho and the Crescent restaurants and other ads within. Printed by Seiko-sha Co. Ltd. Approx. 7 1/4" x 10" size stapled illustrated softcover wraps. A little edge tips wear to covers; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Japan Times, Ltd. Paperback 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
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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> An extraordinarily rare and important "Black Ship" Japanese scroll. hardcover books
1963107349Tokyo: The Japan Ukiyo-e Society 1963. Number Four. Softcover. Fair - front stained. White illus. wraps; 1 color and numerous bw illus. includes advertisements; text in English and Japanese. The Japan Ukiyo-e Society paperback books
23566Japan Two volumes; 255 266 pages; color black and white illustrations some folding showing Japanese swords and sword-making techniques blacksmithing various sword furniture tsuba sheaths decorative work portraits of famous makers; text entirely in Japanese; part of a larger set; these are volumes numbered 6 & 7; approximately 7 1/4" x 10 1/2" size; bound in light gray cloth gilt cover titles with blindstamped design of swordsmith at anvil; black spine titles; purple silk page-markers; a little wear and ageing to the cloth faint old discoloration on one unobtrusive; contents clean and bound very well in very good condition and a good reference to the ancient techniques & craft of sword-making in Japan. Hard Cover. Very Good. Hardcover books
26128Japan In two volumes. The large illustrated volume with hundreds of photographic examples of tea and rice bowls with a text volume accompanying; thoroughly illustrated in black and white and with a few color examples Japanese text throughout. A heavy set approx. 6 lbs with the shipping. Approx. 8 3/4" x 12" size; bound in gray-blue silk patterned cloth over paper side bound in silk string; illustration volume with paper cover title label pasted-down. Some edge tips wear to the cloth of the binding loose folds around cloth edges; contents clean and in very good condition; an extensive reference. . Brocade Covers. Good. paperback books
1860347451860. Two small broadsides each 9 x 11 3/4 inches. Previously folded. Moderate toning and dust soiling faint foxing at outer margins. Good plus. Japanese news sheet on foreigners.<br/> <br/>Two interesting Japanese Kawaraban woodblock news sheets documenting some of the foreigners who visited Japan's shores in the 1850s as the country opened up to the west. The first sheet is in four sections and titled "Western Products and Strange Things." It contains images of an English Captain a black sailor a microscope of Dutch style and a mummified body wrapped in sheets. The second shows a Captain's wife and her wolfhound dog an American Flag and a depiction of four Russian coins obverse and reverse and two other coins dated 1843 and 1854. unknown books
192622907n.p. 1926. Paperback. Very Good. 27p. Original wrapper. 24cm. Minor chipping and wear on wrapper. <br/><br/> paperback books
1957848701957. JAPAN TRANSACTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ORIENTALISTS IN JAPAN THREE VOLUMES: II 1957 III 1958 AND XI 1964. n.p. The Toho Gakkai The Institute of Eastern Culture 1957-1964. 8vo. yellow wrappers printed in black. Ex-library with pencil notes and/or inkstamps to top of front covers. Interiors clean and tight. Texts in English Japanese or French. Very good plus minimal wear texts clean. unknown books
191332350Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan 1913. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy with minor edgewear and rear hinge starting. vii 193 pp. 8vo. Contains just the one article "Modern Japanese Literature" by Walter Dening. Asiatic Society of Japan hardcover books
193444811Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan 1934. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy boards rubbed small tear to front joint bookseller sticker to top corner of front pastedown chip to top corner of free front endpaper with stamp & owner signature at bottom. 244 pp. Illus. with 7 b/w photos and drawings. 8vo. Includes articles on: The Image of Erasmus in Japan by J.B. Snellen; An Introduction to Some Japanese Economic Writings of the 18th Century by Neil Skene Smith; Was Japanese a Language of Open Syllables in the Seventh Century by Dr. Jan Lodewijk Pierson; Early Japanese Law and Administration Part II by G.B. Sansom; and Shoku Nihongi Chronicles of Japan by J.B. Snellen. Asiatic Society of Japan hardcover books
193832354Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan 1938. First edition. Cloth. Faint stain to lower edge of boards and preliminaries else a very good copy leaves crisp and clean binding tight. xv 356 4 pp. 8vo. Includes articles on: Peasant Uprising in Japan of the Tokugawa Period by Hugh Borton; Kumazawa Banzan His Life and Ideas by Galen M. Fisher; Dai Gaku Waumon By Kumazawa Banzan translated by Galen M. Fisher. Asiatic Society of Japan hardcover books
1900859831900. ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL XXVII SUPPLEMENT. n.p n.p. 1900. Possible reprint of original 19th century edition. 53 pp. 8vo. blue leather boards stamped in gilt spine missing boards chipped detached. Complete. Includes: Minutes of Meetings. Members. Constitution and By-Laws. As is. unknown books
1887859851887. ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL XV PART II. Yokohama: R. Meiklejohn & Co. 1887. pp. 131 - 142. xviii. 8vo. blue leather boards stamped in gilt spine missing boards chipped detached. Complete. Includes: Gubbins J. H. The Feudal System in Japan under the Tokugawa Shoguns. Minutes of Meetings. As is. unknown books
85981ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL XXVII PART I. Yokohama: Kelly and Company Possibly an early 20th century reprint of original 19th century edition. Lacks title page. 112 pp. 4 pp. b/w plates 5 pp. 8vo. blue leather boards stamped in gilt spine missing boards chipped detached. Complete. Includes: Florenz Dr. Karl. Ancient Japanese Rituals. With color illustrations in the text. Chamberlain Basil Hall. Note on a Long Tailed Breed of Fowls in Tosa. With two b/w photo reproduction plates. As is. unknown books
85982ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL XXVII PART IV. Tokyo: The Asiatic Society of Japan n.d.; Yokohama: Kelly and Company Possibly an early 20th century reprint of original 19th century edition. 155 pp. 8vo. blue leather boards stamped in gilt spine missing boards chipped detached. Complete. Includes: MacCauley Clay. Hyakunin-Isshu Single Songs of a Hundred POets Literal Translations Into English with Renderings According to the Original Metre. As is. unknown books
85980ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL XXV. Yokohama: Kelly and Company Possibly an early 20th century reprint of original 19th century edition. Lacks title page. 145 pp. xxxvi pp. 8vo. blue leather boards stamped in gilt spine missing boards chipped detached. Complete. Includes: Dooman Rev. I. The Origin of the Japanese Race. Dooman Rev. I. The Beginning of Japanese History Civilization and Arts. As is. unknown books
1900859841900. ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL XXVIII. n.p. n.p. 1900. Possibly an early 20th century reprint of original 19th century edition. 58 pp. xxviii pp. 8vo. blue leather boards stamped in gilt spine missing boards chipped detached contents disbound. Complete. Includes: Aston W. G. Chhoi-Chhung a Korean Marchen. Ballard Miss S. Some Tales from the Uji Shui Monogatari. Kirby R. J. Dazai on Japanese Music. Minutes etc. As is. unknown books
1916860071916. ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL XLIV PART I. Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh/Tokyo: Z. P. Maruya Co. Ltd. February 1916. 55 pp. 8vo. quarter grey cloth with light brown paper covered boards printed in black. Light soil and red pencil to front cover offset tanning to endpapers. Pencil underlining and marging notes in second article. Includes: The Old Geographer: Matsuura Takeshiro. with 5 b/w photo reproduction plates The Crucifixion of the Twenty-Six in 1597. Report of the Council for the Year 1915. As is. unknown books
85997ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL XII PART IV. n.p. n.p. n.d. ca. late 19th century; possibly an early 20th century reprint of original edition from 1884. pp. 245 - 472 iii - xv 1 16 pp. index 2. 8vo. blue leather boards stamped in gilt spine missing boards chipped rear board creased both boards detached. Complete. Includes: Whitney Dr. Willis Norton. Notes on the History of Medical Progress in Japan. With b/w frontispiece portrait plate of Sugita Genpaku. As is. unknown books
1888859941888. ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. TRANSACTIONS 0F THE ASIAATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL V PART II.Tokyo: Hakubunsha 1888.Reprint of original edition published in 1877. 129 pp. 8vo. blue leather boards stamped in gilt spine mostly missing boards chipped detached. Complete. Includes: Longford Joseph H. A Summary of the Japanese Penal Codes. As is. unknown books
85998ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN VOL VIII PART IV. n.p. n.p. n.d. ca late 19th century; possible early 20th century reprint of original edition published in 1880. 58 pp. xi pp. 8vo. blue leather boards stamped in gilt spine missing boards chipped detached. Complete. Includes: Puini Carlo transl. by F. V. Dickins. The Seven Gods of Happiness. Essay on a Portion of the Religious Worship of the Japanese. Ota K. Manufacture of Sugar in Japan. Edkins J. Influence of Chinese Dialects on on the Japanese Pronunciation of the Chinese Part of the Japanese Language. As is. unknown books
