![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=1559822079)
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 about 福笑い. 笑う門には福来る [Fukuwarai. Warau mon ni wa fuku kitaru] Fukuwarai game
![花札. 千鳥[Hanafuda. Chidori] [Hanafuda Game or Flower Cards Game](/pictures/thumb/162246.jpg?v=1558325720)
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 about 花札. 千鳥[Hanafuda. Chidori] [Hanafuda Game or Flower Cards Game
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 about Seeing Stars Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan
![馬術教範. [Bajutsu kyōhan]. [Horsemanship Manual]. ITAGAKI SEISHIRŌ,...](/pictures/thumb/162310.jpg?v=1551707124)
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 about 馬術教範. [Bajutsu kyōhan]. [Horsemanship Manual
![Monogatari. Nihon Sumo-shi. [History of Japanese Sumo.]. KAWABATA](/pictures/thumb/69792.jpg?v=1491526882)
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 about Monogatari. Nihon Sumo-shi. [History of Japanese Sumo
![週刊サンケイ. 東京オリンピック1964 [Shūkan sankei. Tōkyō Orinpikku 1964]....](/pictures/thumb/162289.jpg?v=1557302439)
産経新聞出版局. Showa 39 [1964]. Profusely illustrated in black and white with a few images in colour. 162pp. Original colour pictorial wrappers. Wrappers rubbed in places, upper corner upper cover clipped. A good copy. 1964 Tokyo Olympics special issue of the journal Shukan Sankei, lavishly illustrated with black and white and... More about 週刊サンケイ. 東京オリンピック1964 [Shūkan sankei. Tōkyō Orinpikku 1964]....
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 about The After Hours. Modern Japan and the Search for Enjoyment
