Learning to Bow. Inside the Heart of Japan.
New York. Harper Perennial. 2004. Reprint. Map, 321pp. Remainder mark lower edge, otherwise a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173980. More
New York. Harper Perennial. 2004. Reprint. Map, 321pp. Remainder mark lower edge, otherwise a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173980. More
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1973. Black and white illustrations, x + 535pp, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index, name front free endpaper, binding worn & skewed, a good copy otherwise. Mori Arinori was the Japanese minister of education and was assassinated in 1889. This biography discusses his role in the modernisation of..... More
Vancouver. University of British Columbia Press. 2008. Reprint. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 445 pages, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, a very good paperback copy. This is the spiritual biography of one of Japan's foremost thinkers, Uchimura Kanzo, who died in 1930 and whose ideas influenced contemporary historians..... More
Tokyo. Kajima Institute. 1963. Black and white and colour photographic illustrations, xiii + 206pp, very good copy in dustjacket. Mrs Kajima was president of the large civil engineering and construction firm, Kajima Construction Company. When referring to this item please quote stockid 9064. More
Baltimore. Publish America. 2007. Black and white photographic illustrations, 102pp, glossary, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173987. More
Tokyo. 大和書房, 1976. Black and white plate, 294pp, a good harcback copy, text in Japanese. When referring to this item please quote stockid 154319. More
Tokyo. DISCO Networking. 1998. First Edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, 48pp, family timeline, bibliography, good paperback copy. The author researched this well known story and here presents evidence that the character of Madame Butterfly was based on his great-great-great grandmother Madame Tsuru Glover. When referring to this item please..... More
Tokyo. Tokyo Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. ( 1938). Black and white illustrations, xix + iii + iiviii + 399pp, index, signature of prior owner title page, pale foxing first and last leaves and edges, minor ink numbering front free endpaper, light wear and marking covers, dulled gilt lettering spine, still a...... More
Tokyo. Foreign Press Center. 1979. 1st English edition. Translated by Simul International. Map, illustrations, 187pp, foreedge damp-damaged affecting margin of some leaves, wrappers trifle worn and bumped, dustjacket damp-damaged in part, spine slightly faded. By a former Prime Minister of Japan. "This work is an English translation of a book..... More
Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture. 2018. First English edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, 339pp., bibliography, appendix. A very good hardback copy in a dust jacket. "Towards the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mutsu Munemitsu was ousted frim his home Kishu-han as a result of his father's defeat..... More
New Jersey. Princeton University Press. 1980. Black and white photographic illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 453pp. Dustjacket rubbed, particularly along extremities, neat signature front endpaper, otherwise in good condition, a very clean copy. "The author draws on a considerable amount of rarely used materials, relating to Soho's public and private life..... More
New Jersey. Princeton University Press. 1980. Black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 453pp notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket rubbed particularly along extremities, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, a very clean hardback copy. "The author draws on a considerable amount of rarely used materials, relating..... More
Cambridge. Belknap Press. 1986. Map, black and white illustrations, ix + 371pp, index, neat label of a prior owner front free endpaper, paperback worn particularly at corners, opening a little between two gatherings. Fair secondhand copy. This extroadinary family account offers insight into the Japanese character and the forging of..... More
Tokyo. Kodansha. 1987. 204pp, dustjacket trifle shelf worn, little sunned spine, a good hardback copy. This extraordinary collection of individual portraits is perhaps the first book about the Japanese to view them entirely unhindered by the various theories about them - people as complicated, as simple, as inscrutable, and as..... More
Kent. Norbury. 1977. Black and white illustrations, xviii + 231pp, bibliography, signature of Japanese historian Dr.Richard Mason on front free endpaper, dustjacket minor rubbing, a very good copy. "[Kenneth Strong] uses contemporary sources and his subject's personal diaries to present an overall account of the way an intricate network of..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1969. Black and white line illustrations, xvii + 187pp, chronology, neat name of a prior owner front free endpaper, remainder mark lower edge, good clean hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173895. More
Kyoto. Ritsumeikan Uni. 1933. Translation. viii + iv + 321pp, appendix, endpapers browned, signatures of prior owner's endpapers, cloth dull and worn with a little loss at corners and head and tail of spine. One leaf a little marked but generally the text is very good, clean and sound. Prince..... More
Tokyo. Kodansha International. 2007. 187pp, small closed tear upper corner of dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. A shocking yet intensely moving first-person account of one woman's experience of growing up in Japan's yakuza society. Born into the family of a wealthy yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lives her early years..... More
London. Faber and Faber. 1974. 280pp, glossary, index, endpapers little browned, dustjacket spine lightly faded and edges lightly worn, a good hardback copy. The author was the head of the British Council in Japan for 6 years from 1961. When referring to this item please quote stockid 148844... More
Tokyo. Kodansha International. 1992. Black and white photographic plates, xi + 256pp, hardback, very good in dustjacket. Translated by Edwin McClellan. A memoir by the author of such well-known works as Musashi and Taiko. "Fragments of a Past provides an absorbing account of a boy's struggle toward maturity; a striking..... More
Tokyo. 中央公論新社, 1971. Black and white illustrations, 211pp, text in japanese, a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 154318. More
Tokyo. Keiōgijuku. 2009. Colour and black and white illustrations, 424pp, selected bibliography, chronology, lower edge upper cover and corners bumped, some very minor water damage lower cover and paper band but otherwise a very good hardback copy. 28.5 x 22cm. "Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) [Tenpo 5 - Meiji 34] was a...... More
日本放送出版協会. 1982. Black and white illustrations, 257pp, a good paperback copy with text in Japanese. When referring to this item please quote stockid 154329. More
Japan. 講談社. 1970. Black and white plates, 344pp, a good hardback copy in card slipcase. When referring to this item please quote stockid 154354. More