Tokyo. Yushodo Booksellers. 1964. Reprint Series. Black and white illustrations, ci + 854pp, appendix, errata, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free-endpaper, touch of rubbing on corner extremities, very good hardback copy. Japanese government documents on the Meiji restoration, edited with an introduction. When referring to this..... More

London. Luzac. 1951. Folding map, xix + 227pp, appendices, bibliography, index, signature of Japanese historian Dr John Caiger front free endpaper, a very good hardback copy. Based on the author's doctoral thesis which includes sections on the Opium War in Anglo-Japanese relations, the Perry Expedition of 1852-1854, Sir John Bowring..... More

London. Japan Library, 1991. With an introduction and notes by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, in addition to the 1906 introductory, postscript and notes by William Elliot Griffis. Colour and black and white plates, ix + 269pp, index, spine faded, a good copy in dustjacket. Richard Henry Brunton with his wife and..... More

New Haven. Yale. 1981. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 355pp, notes, bibliography, index, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, sunned dustjacket reverse foxed, very good hardback copy. "A sensitive critical biography, interlaced with extracts from [Ichiyo's] diary, and [Danly's] translation of nine representative stories, several appearing in..... More

Canberra. A.N.U. Press. 1981. Tables, xii + 447pp, index, good copy in marked dustjacket. Papers include: Family systems in Australia and Japan - Yuriko Kitaoji; Japan's Foreign Policy and Attitudes to the Outside World 1868-1945 - Junji Banno; The Australian and Japanese Constitutions - Yasuhiro Okudaira. When referring to this..... More

London. Routledge. 1995. vii + 279pp, appendix, bibliography, index, inscription by the author to historian Dr J. Caiger, dustjacket trifle shelf worn, a very good hardback copy. A unique and pioneering study of the first fifteen years of the Imperial Japanese Diet, this book is the first detailed study of..... More

Canberra. Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU. 1972. Map, x + 87pp, neatly hand written title on spine, otherwise a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 64768. More

Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1985. xi + 407pp, bibliography, notes, index, spine sunned, a good paperback copy. This book examines the momentous role that ideology played in modern Japanese history and how this evolved, and offers a new interpretation of the views of politics and the nation in imperial Japan..... More

Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1973. Black and white illustrations, x + 535pp, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, dustjacket spine little, single closed tear lower cover dustjacket corner, a very good hardback copy. Mori Arinori was the Japanese minister of education..... More

Tokyo. Tokyo University Press. 1981. xvii + 769pp, spine gilt lettering, an excellent, clean hardback copy in card slipcase. Quarto. The major reference work on pre-war Japanese government. Text in Japanese. When referring to this item please quote stockid 69180. More

New York. Columbia University Press. 1994. Map, black and white photographic plates, xviii + 423pp, chronological tables, references, notes, index, lettering on spine trifle faded, a good paperback copy. The story of the political changes brought about by the Meiji Restoration is told here through the career of Sakamoto Ryoma..... More

Tokyo. Asiatic Society. December, 1917. ii + 185pp, papercovered boards considerably marked and worn, upper joint split, head and tail of spine little worn, front free endpaper removed, endpapers browned, still text clean and sound. Includes: A Study of Some of the Oracles and Sayings in the Warongo or Japanese..... More