Baltimore. John Hopkins. n.d. (c. 1970). Black and white illustrations, 245pp, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, decorative endpapers, prior owner's name front free endpaper, minor wear and fading dustjacket otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 66359. More
Philadelphia. Lippincott. 1917. Folding map, colour frontis, 286pp, appendices, grey cloth-covered boards trifle marked, protective dustjacket, octavo, small bookseller's label front pastedown, a good, generally clean copy. A reproduction of Yotsuya Kwaidan told by the famous story-teller Shunkintei Ryuo. The story is an example of a 'true' Japanese ghost story..... More
St Lucia. University of Queensland Press. 1982. Translation and commentary by Joyce Ackroyd. Maps, plans, lx + 417pp, appendices, notex, bibliography, index, hardback, dustjacket little worn with sunned spins, a good hardback copy. The Tokushi Yoron, written by Japan's foremost Confucianist in 1712, is considered to be one of the..... More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1970. 2nd printing. Maps, photographic illustrations, x + 446pp, bibliography, index. "The book's value is not confined to the specialist in Japanese political institutions or the specialist in the local political lore of Okayama. The sociologist and social historian, the economist and economic historian, as well..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1985. 360pp, notes, index, very good copy in dustjacket. The thirteen papers in this volume represent a concerted effort to place the historical demography of East Asia on a firm quantitive basis. They explore a wide range of Chinese and Japanese documentary sources and raise new..... More
London. Cambridge University Press. 1974. Tables, xiv + 239pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. "The present volume deals with economic and social change in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Japan, by means of a case study of the cotton trade in Osaka and the surrounding Kinai region. The development of the Osaka..... More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1970. viii + 253pp, index, biographical notes, list of works cited, hardback, foxed dustjacket with closed tear, now protected, endpapers and edges lightly foxed, attractive bookplate laid down front free endpaper, internally clean and sound. This book discusses the thought and life of Nishi Amane (1829-1897)..... More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1970. viii + 253pp, index, biographical notes, list of works cited, lightly foxed dustjacket, endpapers and edges trifle foxed, otherwise a good copy. This book discusses the thought and life of Nishi Amane (1829-1897) who was one the first Japanese to assert the supremacy of Western..... More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1970. viii + 253pp, index, biographical notes, list of works cited, hardback, dustjacket little marked and smudged, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, a very good hardback copy. This book discusses the thought and life of Nishi Amane (1829-1897) who was..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press, 1986. Endpaper and in text maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 265pp, notes, index, dustjacket little worn with small closed tears, otherwise a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178914. More
Stuttgart. Brockhaus. 1982. 2 volumes. Volume I: Folding map, lxviii + 310pp. Volume II: 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, 1 folding plate, black and white full page plates, [8] + 478pp. Cloth, leather title labels spine, quarto. Small mark cloth upper cover, lettering on upper cover a little worn..... More
Tokyo: Yushodo. 1977. Number 124 of a limited edition of 300 copies. Two volumes. Title pages in red and black. 36 x 22.6cm. Volume I: 4 double page maps (2 folding), 18 engravings, [7], lii, 391, [1]pp and 4 page explanation of plates. Volume II: 45 maps and plates, [2]..... More
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京都. [Kyoto]. 思文閣出版. {Shibunkaku Shuppan]. 2015. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, endnotes, 708 + vi pp, hardback, dustjacket, text in Japanese, very good copy. This book, edited by Kasaya Kazuhiko, is a collection of 25 academic papers. They explore how Japan managed to modernise in the mid-19th century..... More
University of Hawai'i Press. 1977. Black and white frontispiece, viii + 200pp, notes, glossary, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, foxing upper page edges, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Volume 2 of the Historical Literature of Mori Ogai. When referring to this item..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. 236pp, appendix, index, inscribed by author to Dr J Caiger, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Offers a broad picture of the way in whiich Western medicine, and Western knowledge, was absorbed and adapted in Japan. When referring to this item please..... More
Princeton. Princeton U.P., 1984. x + 290pp, index, glossary, paperback, dustjacket minor wear at extremities, top edge lightly foxed, overall a very good hardback copy. A collection of articles about the influence of Confucianism in Tokugawa Japan. Essays include: Characteristic Responses to Confucianism in Tokugawa Literature, by Donald Keene; Neo-Confucian..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1977. 183pp, signature of prior owner front paste down, notes, bibliography, index, good in slightly damaged dustjacket. A striking aspect of Japanese history was the static population figures during the 18th and early 19th century. Methods employed such as the use of infanticide are discussed in..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press, 1990. Black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 235pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket little worn with few closed tears, otherwise a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178943. More
Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press. 1995. Frontispiece, xiii + 232pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, dustjacket. A little damp staining upper edge throughout but otherwise clean and sound. "The Ryushi shinron (Master Ryu's New Thesis) is important in the history of Japanese political thought both for what it is--a forceful critique..... More
New York. Weatherhill. 1992. Black and white text illustrations, vi + 367pp, glossary, very good copy in dustjacket. The life and writings of Ando Shoeki. When referring to this item please quote stockid 170287. More