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Published by Exact Publisher Not Stated, Japan
Seller: Antiquarius Booksellers, Falkland, BC, Canada
Stapled Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Postcard folderdescribing Nijo castle in Japan. Nijo Castle is a flatland castle in Kyoto, Japan. It was built in 1603 as a residence for the first shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu. Wrapper hold 8 detachable, colour postcards for mailing. Both the postcards and the remaining 'stubs' describe the views in English and in Japanese. Two b&w photos on the front and rear outside wrappers.Inside the rear wrapper is plan of the Castle. Undated but circa 1950s. Unpacked weight, 52g. Eligible for inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail rates within Canada, slightly more to the USA and other Countries. Image available. Size: 24cm by 9cm. Book.
Published by Tokyo, Japan, February, 1994, First Edition (Stated), Graphic Sha Publishing Co., 1994
ISBN 10: 4766107594ISBN 13: 9784766107593
Seller: Jean Blicksilver, Bookseller, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fine Hardcover in Very Good Semi-Glossy Color-Photograhic Dust Jacket with price intact; 9 11/16" x 10"; attractively bound in beige textured covers with bright, distinct gilt lettering on front cover and spine; a tiny lower edge cover bump; some creasing on dust jacket; 99 pages plus an additional page at end of text; replete with many beautiful color photos captioned in Japanese and English; includes a full-page map of Kogyo Myata, a 2-page list of locations for flower viewing in Kamakura (in Japanese and English) and a 2-page flower calendar list including all 4 seasons (in Japanese and English); mild page- edge tanning; text pages made of nice quality, semi-glossy paper; a securely bound and attractive book.
Published by Publisher not Stated, Japan
ISBN 10: 4101169012ISBN 13: 9784101169019
Seller: Philip Emery, Bridlington, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of the 2nd Edition. First published in 1966, later undated reprint, 427 pages, Japanese text.
Published by Publisher Not Stated, Japan, 1990
ISBN 10: 4832890085ISBN 13: 9784832890084
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 231 pages. "A Japanese textbook for the elementary level, based on posthumous manuscripts by the late Shinobu Suzuki who literally dedicated his life to Japanese education." - from Foreward. Few markings to contents. Light wear. Quality copy.
Published by Publisher not stated in English. No date, circa 1900., Japan, 1900
Seller: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
A handsome book of photos of a shrine at Nikko, captions in English and Japanese. Solid clean tight copy of scarce book. 10-1/2 x 7-1/4, b/w photos, color map. VeryGood unmarked, light shelfwear. Oblong Paperback in color illus wraps, sild-tie binding. Full number line on inside page indicates may be 1st printing.
Published by No publisher stated in English, Japan, 1970
Seller: DIAMOND HOLLOW BOOKS / MILES BELLAMY, ANDES, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Japanese edition [English text]. First Japanese Edition with text in English. Colophon is in Japanese & we have yet to have it translated, but the author states in her inscription, in silver ink on title page: "For ---------------------- - The 1st Japanese Edition in English - Kate Millet." Very Good in lightly rubbed maroon cloth, spine lettering gilt, 393 pages. Dust-jacket is quite worn with missing bits at base and crown of spine, a few closed tears, general age-toning & sign of damp at base at rear. Else crisp and handsome, archival-mylar-protected. No instances in WorldCat. Edition quantity unknown. Rare this edition.
Published by [Likely Japan: no stated publisher, c.1883], 1883
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition in book form of this translated analysis of the new Japanese penal and criminal procedural codes, modelled on French jurisprudence, which were drafted in the late 1870s as part of the Meiji's modernization programme. We have traced a single institutional copy at Northwestern University. The author (1838-1897) was a Parisian law professor and a member of Tokyo's Societé de Législation comparée. The society's membership included two figures who would play a leading role in drafting the codes: the Japanese Minister of Justice and his French advisor Gustave Boissonade (1825-1910). Two years after this analysis was published, the new legal frameworks were formally promulgated, setting the stage for the introduction of a civil code in 1890. The changes introduced by the 1880 codes included outlawing torture, codifying abortion as a severe criminal offence, and exempting children under 12 from criminal responsibility for their actions. Quarto, pp. 13. Original green wrappers, front cover lettered in black. Inscription ("Duplicate sent to Department P.p.e. 99/84") on front cover. Wrappers chipped with several closed tears neatly repaired with Japanese tissue, soiling and few small holes and repaired closed tears to final 2 leaves, text unaffected. A just about very good copy of this delicate publication.
Published by Japan: [no stated publisher, c.1850], 1850
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
A later 19th-century edition of this examination of the Japanese supernatural, with particular attention on the existence and characteristics of tengu, therianthropic spirits often mischievous or comic. The text was first published in 1821 and edited into the present form in 1828 by three of the author's students. Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843) was a prolific scholar who became interested in the supernatural in the early 1800s. The present work was one of several he published on the topic in the 1820s and is inspired by the writings of the Confucian scholar Hayashi Razan (1583-1657), whose Honcho jinjako ("Thoughts on Imperial Shrines") argued in favour of the existence of tengu. Kokon yomiko includes examples of kamigakushi - the name for stories involving the spiriting away of children by restless gods. Three volumes, octavo (240 x 160 mm). Original blue textured card wrappers, recently renewed blue thread yotsume toji stitching, near-contemporary manuscript title labels on each volume, spine ends capped with green silk. Wrappers rubbed and worn, losses to couple of green silk caps, contents generally clean and bright with a few characters touched up. A very good copy.
Published by [Japan: no stated publisher, c.1925], 1925
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
An attractive tourist souvenir, produced at a time of growing tensions between the old and the new, showing high-status women in traditional clothing and settings smoking, getting ready, eating, relaxing, and travelling in rickshaws. We have located a single copy at the University of Idaho. This album follows the style of those published by the photographic studios of Takagi Teijiro (born c.1875) and Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929), and may well be one of their unattributed productions. Landscape octavo, ff. [13]. Original patterned cloth boards, brown silk musubi toji binding, spine ends capped with brown silk, gilt-flecked brown pastedowns and title page. With 12 hand-coloured collotypes. Binding still fresh, spine ends worn, plates clean and bright. A fine copy.
Published by Japan: [no stated publisher, c.1844], 1844
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
An early monochrome printing, preceding later inferior colour impressions, of the Hokusai edition of Precepts for Women, a key text for the construction of gender norms in 19th century Japan. Hokusai's woodblocks, ranging from the peaceful to the dramatic, do not directly illustrate the text but draw out its key themes with his typical vibrancy. Precepts for Women was composed in 1687 by Sawada Kichi, about whom little is known. One of a group of rote-learned texts known as the "Japanese Analects", it consists of her instructions and injunctions concerning proper behaviour, including such gems as "young women should not make irrelevant pilgrimages to shrines and temples simply for enjoyment" and "when people visit, it is rude to reveal your bad humour or take your annoyance out on them" (quoted in Yonemoto, pp. 51-2). "They strike the reader as a curious blend of vague moralizing and exacting specificity regarding actions and behaviours" (ibid., p. 52). Sawada modelled her text after the Admonitions of Imagawa, a leading instructional text for boys popular in the 17th century. Marcia Yonemoto, The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan, 2016. Octavo (228 x 156 mm). Original paper wrappers illustrated with white chrysanthemums, recently renewed gold thread yotsume toji stitching, front cover with xylographic title label. Title page decorated with spring garden flowers, 26 full-page illustrations in text. Original silk spine caps discarded when stitching renewed, covers worn with a little worming, illustrations generally presenting nicely with occasional old staining and repaired worming, some loss to image at fore-edge of f. 7, sometime repaired with paper. A very good copy of this delicate publication.