Tokyo: 朝日新聞社. [Asahi Shinbunsha]. December,1925. [178]pp of black and white photographic images + 22 pages of text in Japanese at rear, some even browning and some foxing throughout, original wrappers a little foxed, spine a trifle chipped and creased but otherwise very good. This special issue was published to honour... More
95 full page colour plates showing rice straw rugs. Each image has a printed number below it which appears to be the stock number of the rug, several printed numbers have a second label with a new number laid down on to it. A few leaves are stamped H. Yamamoto... More
大日本雄辯會講談社 [Dainihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha]. Taishō 8 [1919]. Colour folding sugoroku, or Japanese board game. Pin holes at corners, worn along the folds with a number of small holes particularly along central fold, some browning and soiling. Neat tape repairs on reverse. 55 x 78.5cm. Published as a supplement to Shonen... More
旅順.[Lüshun]. 東京堂.[Tōkyōdo]. 昭和十八 (1943). Attractively produced small pictorial album praising Japan's military success in China's Liaodong Peninsula, 32 photographic plates titled and captioned, 32pp in wrappers, covers little worn mainly on corners, hinge detached, a very clean copy in good condition. Text in Japanese. 12.6 x 18.2cm. The album features... More
No date. (circa1850s). Black and white woodblock portrait, 31.7 x 24cm. Some worming, two small brown spots otherwise good. This kawaraban, dating probably from the 1850s, depicts a figure who resembles other portraits of members of Perry's mission to Japan. The term used to describe his position is the Japanese... More
1854. Watercolour portrait on washi, 38 x 27cm. Some creasing, some holes. A striking image. This striking colour portrait from Perry's second mission to Japan depicts Captain Henry A. Adams, as seen by a Japanese artist, during Perry's second visit to Japan in 1854. It was at this time that... More
(8th of March1854?). Manuscript ink sketch map, 28.5 x 38cm. Few small holes, paper thin in places, a little creased. This sketch map shows Perry's fleet entering Edo bay likely on the 8th of March, 1854 given that seven vessels are shown. The bay is roughly outlined, showing Perry's fleet... More
![The Asahigraph Special Photographic Centenary Number. 写真百年祭記念号. アサヒグラフ臨時増刊.[Shashin hyakunensai kinengō. Asahi GUrafu rinji zōkan]. K. NARUSAWA.](/pictures/thumb/162326.jpg?v=1551155450)
![海陸旅行競争双六. [Kairiku ryokō kyōsō sugoroku]. KOBAYASHI EIJIRŌ SENSEI.](/pictures/thumb/162283.jpg?v=1551155449)
![旅順之戰績. [Album of Military Success in Ryojun]. HIDESABURŌ TAKAHASHI.](/pictures/thumb/162009.jpg?v=1551155443)
![[副将キハダシスアナン之像. Fukushō Kihadashisu Anan no zu]. [Image of Deputy Imperial Commissioner Kihadansu Anan].](/pictures/thumb/161643.jpg?v=1551155440)
![[嘉永七年来航墨利加船副将アハタムス像. Kaei nananen raikō Amerikasen fukushō Ahatamusuzō]. [American Deputy Commander Adams Who Came Ashore 10 February 1854]. ROUND EYES AND BULBOUS NOSES..." JAPANESE WATERCOLOUR PORTRAIT OF COMMANDER HENRY A. ADAMS "YELLOWISH FACES.](/pictures/thumb/161642.jpg?v=1551155440)
![[亜墨利加船来航図. Amerikasen raikōzu]. [The American Ships That Came to Japan]. MANUSCRIPT MAP SHOWING THE ARRIVAL OF PERRY.](/pictures/thumb/161640.jpg?v=1551155440)