United States. Harvard. 2004. Map, xi + 263pp, notes, index, appendices, abbreviations, hardback in very good condition in protected dustjacket. Japan's modern international history began in 1858 with the signing of the "unequal" commercial treaty with the United States. Over the next fifteen years, Japanese diplomacy was reshaped to respond..... More
London. Bison. 1988. Profuse black and white and colour photographic illustrations, line illustrations, 192pp, glossary, bibliography, index, very good hardback copy with dustjacket. 31.5 x 24cm. Chapters include "The Origins of the Warrior Class," "The Samurai during the Gempei Wars," "The Kamakura and Nambokucho Periods," "Civil Unrest: the Ashikaga Shogunate,"..... More
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
London. Macdonald. n.d. (c. 1954). Abridged and edited by Sidney Wallach. Black and white illustrations, xxxv + 305pp, notes, index, ex-library with all the usual marks, library stamp in gild on upper cover, endpapers browned, covers a little worn and spine dulled, rebound in red library buckram, stamped in gilt..... More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1988. Maps, ix + 485pp, index, spined sunned, extremities a touch rubbed, very good paperback copy. "In this collection of 17 essays, leading scholars address the question of what kind and what degree of change accompanied the political events known as the Meiji Restoration. The authors..... 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
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1999. Edited, translated and annotated by Beatrice M Bodart-Bailey. Black and white illustrations, xiv + 545pp, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, one section of cover sunned, very good paperback copy. "Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan was a best-seller from the moment it was published in..... 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
Rutland. Tuttle. 1974. Ninth Printing. With an introduction by William Elliot Griffis. xxiii + 203pp, index, edges of endpapers foxed, price clipped dustjacket little creased on flaps with sunned spine, very good hardback copy. "Chivalry has a magical connotation. Bushido is the Japanese feudal equivalent of chivalry. It follows that..... More
New Jersey. John Wiley & Sons. 2004. Black and white illustrations, xvi + 205pp, notes, bibliography, sources, index, slightly sunned spine, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "The Last Samurai sets forth to demystify Saigo's life, his machinations, and the dramatic historical events that shaped the life and death of..... More
London. Reaktion. 2020. Maps, black and white and colour illustrations, 240pp, references, general bibliography, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. 23.5 x 18.5cm. "Tokyo today is one of the world’s mega-cities and the center of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture—but not everyone is aware of its past. Founded in 1590..... 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
London. Orbis. 1978. Map, profusely illustrated with colour photographs by Werner Forman, 128pp, chronology, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket worn and little chipped, very good hardback copy. 30.6 x 23cm. Chapters are entitled "The Silent Warrior," "The Samurai Emerges," "Zen and the Sword," "The Armed Mandarins," "Samurai in Society" and..... 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