Tokyo. 朝日新聞社. 1975. Volume 2 only. Black and white illustrations, 282pp, head of spine bumped, a very good hardback copy in card slipcase. Quarto. Reprint of some issues of The Asahigraph Weekly, Japanese illustrated newspaper, with some English captions. Interesting insight into life in the Taisho era. (When referring to..... More
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Tokyo. 毎日新聞社. 1971. Volume 2 only. Black and white illustrations, 296pp, foxing upper edge, from the collection of Japanese historian Dr Richard Mason, dustjacket spine little sunned, a good hardback copy. Text in Japanese. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159033). More
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[Kokusai Bunka Jōhōsha]. 国際文化情報社, 1958-1959. Complete 18 issues in colour wrappers bound in three original binders with cord ties. Profusely illustrated throughout, each issue includes a colour plate some folding, other illustrations in black and white. 31 cm x 22 cm, This richly illustrated history of modern Japan was published..... More
![日本歴史大辞典 /Nihon Rekishi Daijiten. [Encyclopedia of Japanese History]....](/pictures/thumb/150595.jpg?v=1571228069)
Nara. 河出書房新社. 昭和３１－３６.1956-61. Complete 22 volume set which includes 2 extra volumes on chronological tables and maps: Maps, colour frontispieces with black and white photographic plates and illustrations throughout, individual card slipcases for each volume; occasional light bumping to corners, gilt spines with gilt emblem on embossed front covers,a very..... More
New York. Paragon Book Reprint Corp. 1964. Second edition. 42pp, front paste down stained where book plate has been removed, good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 141109). More
Tokyo. Asiatic Society. Second Series, Vol XIX.1940. Map, black and white illustrations, vi + 307pp, appendices, bibliography, index, papercovered boards and cloth spine little worn and soiled, cloth on lower joint showing insect damage, endpapers browned, publishers label front paste down, a sound and overall clean copy. Contains three papers..... More
Tokyo. Asiatic Society. December1924. 99pp + 4pp + 4pp, notes, papercovered boards, gilt lettering spine, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason front free-endpaper, boards browned and worn with a little loss, upper hinge cracked. Contents clean and sound. Includes: The Imperial edicts in the Shoku-Nihongi by G.B. Sansom, A...... More
Tokyo. Asiatic Society. December1925. 121pp, appendices, notes, papercovered boards, gilt lettering spine, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason front free-endpaper, boards a little browned and damp stained, endpapers browned, text very clean and sound. Includes: Fifty sessions of the Japanese Imperial Diet by Eernest Clement and Etsujiro Uyehara, Appreciation..... More
Tokyo. Asiatic Society. December1926. Black and white illustrations, 179pp, boards damp stained lower section, paper covering on boards torn with loss in several places particularly on lower board, endpapers browned, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason title page, Includes: The Cradle of Graeco-Buddhist art by A. Foucher, The Oceanic..... More
Tokyo. Asiatic Society. May1938. xv + 356 + 4pp, papercovered boards, gilt lettering spine, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason front free-endpaper, endpapers a little browned, very good copy. Includes: Peasant uprisings in Japan of the Tokugawa Period by Hugh Borton, Kumazawa Banzan, his life and ideas by Galen..... More
Tokyo. Asiatic Society. August1968. Black and white illustrations, 175pp, papercovered boards, gilt lettering spine, very good copy. Includes: Law and the Social Process in Japan by Richard Rabinowitz, Chinese Storytellers and Singers of Ballads by V. Hrdlickova, Kusazoshi: Chapbooks of Japan by Leon Zolbrod. (When referring to this item please..... More
Tokyo. Asiatic Society. June1981. Black and white illustration, 172pp, papercovered boards, gilt lettering spine, a very good copy. Includes: The Birth of Japan's Postwar Political Parties - John K Emmerson; Kurusu Saburo - Diplomat and Man - Neal Henry Lawrence; Chinese Aloneness and Japanese Loneliness - Toyoko Yoshida; Jonathan Goble..... More
Fort Worth. Harcourt Brace. 1993. Maps, black and white illustrations, vi + 426pp, index, a very good paperback copy. Selective in the subjects presented, this text covers the most salient and engaging topics in great detail and from a variety of perspectives. The author, who lived in Japan for five..... More
Tokyo. Asiatic Society. December1935. Black and white plates, 191pp, appendices, bibliography, index, papercovered boards, gilt lettering spine a little dull, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason front free-endpaper, light browning endpapers, corners little bumped, a good hardback copy. The Transactions of The Asiatic Society of Japan. Second Series, Vol..... More
Tours. 1842. Troisieme Edition. Engraved frontispiece and title pages and two other full page tissue guarded engravings, (6) + 308pp, marbled edges and endpapers, upper edge browned, foxed throughout, first few leaves soiled, upper edge water stained throughout (not affecting text), upper hinge split, quarter morocco binding worn particularly at..... More
Paris. Ernest Leroux. (Repr. Martino Fine Books, USA). 1912-, octavo, original cloth, Title label., pp.xii,762 (When referring to this item please quote stockid 88426). More
Seattle. Society for Japanese Studies. Volume 15, Number 1.1989. 343pp, wrappers, trifle worn at corners and head and tail of spine. The theme of this issue is social control and early socialization. Papers include: Order in Japanese Society: Attachment, Authority, and Routine - Thomas P. Rohlen; Controlled Diversity: An Overview..... More
Seattle. Society for Japanese Studies. Volume 16, No. 1.1990. Graphs, tables, wrappers, spine faded, occasional insect damage upper covers but still quite acceptable. The four articles in this issue are: Rice Price Fluctations and Fertility in Late Tokugawa Japan - Griffith Feeney and Hamano Kiyoshi; Linking Welfare and the Developmental..... More
Seattle. Society for Japanese Studies. Volume 21, Number 2.1995. 293 - 545pp, wrappers, trifle faded along spine and upper edge of upper cover. The four articles in this issue are: The "Old Boy" Network and Government-Business Relationships in Japan - Ulrike Schaede; Inventing the "Symbol Monarchy" in Japan, 1945-52 -..... More
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Tokyo. 東京大学出版会, 1976. 336pp, a good hardback copy in card slipcase. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 154248). More
Tokyo. Sophia University. 1971. viii + 112pp, bibliographies, indicies, signature of Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason on front free endpaper, dustjacket spine browned and a little worn, a good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 151060). More
Sutherland, N.S.W. Hungarian Historical Society. 1982. Black and white maps and illustrations, xxx + 347pp, bibliography, index, glossary, appendix, dedication to Japanese historian Dr. Richard Mason as a gift from the author (signed and dated), spine sunned, a very good copy. Hungarian translation of the 2400 year old history and..... More
Tokyo. 1934. 32pp, very attractive booklet in original wrappers. Covers 16 subject areas including philosophy, religion, language, literature, arts and crafts, law, education and social life. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 137101). More
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近騎写真集編纂委員会, Heisei 3 [1992]. Black and white plans, colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 199pp. 30.5 x 22 cm. Very good copy in glassine wrapper and slipcase. The Konoe Division the Imperial Guard of Japan today guard the Emperor and his family, the palace and other imperial properties. They..... More
United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011. Black and white illustrations,164pp, notes, bibliography, index, a very good paperback copy. Previous copy owned by the author. In contrast to the enduring stereotype of a 'nation of samurai', this book uses provincial newspapers and local records to hear the voices of ordinary..... More
