United States: Harvard University, Asia Center, 2010. Black and white illustrations, 337pp, bibliography, index, very good in dustjacket. In "Seeing Stars", Dennis J. Frost traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. Frost explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and..... More
![福笑い. 笑う門には福来る [Fukuwarai. Warau mon ni wa fuku kitaru] Fukuwarai...](/pictures/thumb/162304.jpg?v=1630072971)
No date. (circa 1980?). Colour folded sheet with accompanying title piece with ANA logo and strip of paper with eyes, nose and lips on it. 48.8 x 40.3cm. Very good copy. This is a novelty game from All Nippon Airways. A traditional New Year Japanese game, Fukuya, requires players to..... More
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Tokyo. Chikumashobo. 1993. Pictorial endpapers, black and white illustrations, iii + 298pp, index, very good in dustjacket. Text in Japanese. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 69792). More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1969. Second printing. Black and white illustrations, xi + 222pp, index, minor marking front free endpaper, pale foxing edges, some marking and wear dustjacket, protected with wax style paper which is also trifle marked, otherwise good. "Mr. Plath sketches the modernization of the Anchiku region..... More
日本オリンピック後援会. [Nihon Orinpikku Koenkai]. 昭和31[ 1956]. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 160pp, charts, hardback, dustjacket, 30.4 x 21.5cm, original worn and a little torn card board box, title on cover and spine. Very good copy in dustjacket. This book was published on June 1956 in Japan to..... More
