Japan. Japan-Netherlands Institute. 2004. Colour foldout map, black and white maps, foldout colour illustrations, black and white illustrations, xl + 898pp, indices, appendices, glossary, very good hardback copy in slipcase. This volume covers the marginalia from the 1740-4800 diaries. Providing the general public, and especially those who have neither a...... 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

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

Seattle. University of Washington Press. 1975. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 234pp, appendices, glossary. A good hardback copy with little rubbing on cover and extremities. When referring to this item please quote stockid 164625. 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

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

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

New York. Viking Press. 1990. xii + 578pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket very slightly marked, very good copy. The story of the first official contact between the Japanese Empire and the United States when Commodore Perry's squadron of ships steamed into Edo Bay in July 1853. Drawn from first hand..... More