![福笑い. 笑う門には福来る [Fukuwarai. Warau mon ni wa fuku kitaru] Fukuwarai game](/pictures/thumb/162304.jpg?v=1571228390)
No date. (circa1980?). 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 attach..... More
![花札. 千鳥[Hanafuda. Chidori] [Hanafuda Game or Flower Cards Game](/pictures/thumb/162246.jpg?v=1571228387)
Japanese card game for 2 - 3 players. Small brightly coloured flower cards printed on plastic and presented in plastic box. This game requires a courage,a diplomacy and calmness, four pairs of 12 months flowers are written in each set of 48 cards. This game offers you the chance to..... More
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
![馬術教範. [Bajutsu kyōhan]. [Horsemanship Manual]. ITAGAKI SEISHIRŌ,...](/pictures/thumb/162310.jpg?v=1571228391)
武揚堂, Showa 14 [1939]. Black and white line drawings, 7 black and white folding diagrams, 186pp. Rikutatsu 陸達no. 75. Some browning particularly around staples last leaves. Last folding diagram loosening, leather covered card covers creased and a little chipped, generally good. 11 x 7.4cm. Introduces basic information designed for beginners..... More
![Monogatari. Nihon Sumo-shi. [History of Japanese Sumo.]. KAWABATA](/pictures/thumb/69792.jpg?v=1571227889)
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
![美と力. [ Bi to chikara]. 1964 Tokyo Olympics. TOKYO OLYMPICS](/pictures/thumb/162288.jpg?v=1571661924)
読売新聞社. Showa 39 [1964]. 289pp, profusely illustrated throughout with black and white and colour photographic illustrations, very good in original cloth in slightly worn dustjacket in pictorial slipcase. 26 x 18.5cm. The impression of Tokyo Olympics from Japanese famous writers and critics, the torch relay, the streets of Tokyo changed..... More
