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

No publication details. [Edo]. Japanese late Edo book woodblock printed book on a love story, small but clear black and white woodblock illustrations, 45 leaves, 18 x 12cm, four-hole stab binding, paper title label laid down upper cover, some light creasing, wear and marking covers, a good copy. Text in..... 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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

Rutland. Tuttle. Reprint. 1964. Maps, colour illustrations, 80pp, some wear dustjacket, nice copy of an interesting work. Includes number of colour plates which reproduce paintings with captions from a handscroll by an anonymous Japanese eyewitness of the Shimoda meetings. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174527... 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