United Kingdom: Shearsman Books, 2016. 124pp., notes, very good paperback copy. Pen on title page, possibly author's signature. "In the ancient tradition of poet-as-traveler-and-seer, Barry Hill's Grass Hut Work is, like Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior, both a travelogue of Japan and a journey inward, into what we'll call... More
Melbourne. National Gallery of Australia. 2001. Profuse coloured illustrations, vi + vii + viii +215pp., paperback in very good condition with French flaps. 29 x 24 cm. loosely inserted fliers of the NGA exhibition and an exclusive member viewing invitation card. Monet's extraordinary fascination with Japanese art continued throughout his... More
Washington D.C. Counterpoint. 2001. [Reprint]. 385pp., very good hardback copy in dustjacket. The San Francisco Zen Centre was the first Buddhist monastery established outside of Asia. It became hugely successful, with it's real estate including a Hot Springs resort, and vegetarian restaurant that became a hub of counterculture and celebrity... More
Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture. 2018. First English edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, 339pp., bibliography, appendix. A very good hardback copy in a dust jacket. "Towards the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mutsu Munemitsu was ousted frim his home Kishu-han as a result of his father's defeat... More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1999. Profuse black and white and colour illustrations, x + 227pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, paperback. Bottom corners a little bumped, otherwise a good copy, 23.4 x 20.5cm. "The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas... More
岩波書店. Showa 19[1944]. [3rd edition]. 29 colour and black and white plates loosely inserted as issued in folder with accompanying text in wrappers. 7 + 4 + [1] + 102 pages of text with occasional black and white line illustrations. Additionally there is a 9 page booklet describing the plates... 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
Yedo. No publisher. The 2nd Year of Kei-ou. [1866]. First edition. Seven colour woodblock folding colour maps, two colour maps showing the hemispheres, mainly black and white maps in text, unpaginated [60]pp. Bound in traditional Japanese four hole stab binding, modern string ties, chops on title page, upper cover and... More
Tokyo: The Society of Naval Architects. 1931. Folding map with outline colour, 2 colour and 23 black and white full page plates, xii + 248pp, very occasional browning, very light damp staining in places on cloth but overall a very good copy in pictorial gilt cloth in slightly browned dustjacket... 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
Tokyo: The Society of Naval Architects. 1934- 1936. 3 volumes which make up the complete floats section of A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan. Volume II Part 1. Floats Sec. 1. The Hisago-bune or Calabash Boat. Revised and enlarged edition. Black and white line illustrations and photographic plates, v.... More
Tokyo: 長谷川武次郎 [Hasegawa]. [1894]. Second Edition. 15 double folded crepe paper leaves, coloured woodblock illustrations throughout, join along folded leaf between upper cover and copyright leaf split. "Ralph Nicholls Oct. '32" neatly written in ink on preface leaf. Pictorial creped wrappers, with two thread ties of which one has been... More
Chicago. Kalifornians. (c.1949). Profusely illustrated with captioned black and white photographic illustrations showing Japanese Americans at work and play,192pp, original pictorial card wrappers worn and marked, small area of damage at staples first and last leaves, last leaf foxed. A few names in the list of residents have been ringed..... 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
Tokyo. 私刊豆本. Showa 17 [1942]. Limited edition of 300 signed copies. 15 folded leaves delightfully illustrated with colour lithographs showing Japanese clocks and other time pieces by well-known artist and author Takeo Takei. Japanese four hole stab string binding, pictorial covers. A little very light wear. Very good. Influential Japanese... More
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