Japanese Tourism: Spaces, Places and Structures; Asia-Pacific Studies: Past and Present series
New York: Berghahn Books, 2013. First printing. Hardcover. Boards, illustrated, clean unmarked text, fine copy, no dust jacket.
Japan
Toga Festival '82; First International Theater Festival in Toyama
Tokyo: Art Office and Tao, 1983. First printing. Paperback. Softcover in protective plastic sleeve, 107 pp., heavily illustrated (with black and white photos), clean unmarked text, about a Very Good copy, gift inscription in ink on the first page, soil/discoloration to the outer pages of the text, some wear to.....
![Item #H29986 Watakushi Hitori No Uman Ribu [My Only Woman's Lib]. Fuyuko Kamisaka, or Uesaka](https://commoncrowbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/h29986.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679630983)
Watakushi Hitori No Uman Ribu [My Only Woman's Lib]
Tokyo: Kofusha, 1976. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps with dust jacket, very good. 256 pp, text in Japanese. An uncommon book and OCLC locates a single holding. Kamisaka was born as Yoshiko Niwa in Tokyo on June 10, 1930. Her first work, Shokuba-no gunzo (People at a Place of Work).....
Kabukim, a set of 6 pictures with stories (1954)
Kyoto: Ky to Hangain, 1954. Hardcover. 12 x 9.5 inch hardcover portfolio with tie, housing 6 woodblock prints in color, about fine, minor tanning to borders, a booklet "Kabuki Explanation and Stories, Series 2" and a folder titled "Kabuki Actors, Six Decorative Prints Ready for Framing" holding 6 prints measuring.....
Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period; Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University series
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, illustrated (some in color), clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket, foxing to the top edge, light edgewear to the dust jacket. Small red chopmark stamp on titlepage from Helen Hopper, author of works.....
Impressions
Rochester, NY: Gonda Design, 1985. First edition. Paperback. 1985. First edition. Paperback, 12mo. in white wraps. Unpaginated, images of Japan with the artist's reflections on the country. Fine. Internally clean and unmarked. Only 1 copy on OCLC.
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan; Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power series
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, illustrated, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket, foxing to the top edge, light edgewear to the dust jacket. Small red chopmark stamp on titlepage from Helen Hopper, author of works on Japanese.....
Beautiful Japan, Wood Block Prints, a Set of Six Pictures
Kyoto: Kyoto Hanga-in, Ca. 1950. Hardcover. 12 x 9.5 inches, boards with tie portfolio housing six prints, top one a bit tanned from a protective sheet and the flaps of the portfolio, the verso of Mr. Fuji print somewhat tanned but doesn't show through on the front side, and this.....
The Bear-Worshippers of Yezo
Boston and New York: Lee and Shepard and Dillingham, 1884. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1884, large 8vo, pictorial paper-covered boards, very good, some rubbing and wear, front inner hinge has been restored as best we could, a couple signatures a bit proud, else nice tight copy. 304 pp, illustrated.....
Buddhism in the Sung; Studies in East Asian Buddhism, 13
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, 1999. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1999. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 646 pp., Good copy in Very Good dust jacket, pencil-notes to some of the pages, light creasing or wear to the edges of some pages including a paper-clip ghost to one page, minor discoloration.....
Japan Today
Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1981. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 118pp., not illustrated. Book has toning and mild wear to wrap, binding tight, PO signature to front endpaper, otherwise text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Japanese Textiles
New York: Privately Printed for the Japan Society of New York, 1941. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1941. Limited edition of 1000. Hardcover, 4to. in patterned cloth, without dust jacket. 94pp. illustrated. Very good. Spine, board extremities toned. Internally bright and unmarked.
OECD Environmental Performance Reviews; Japan; 2010
Paris: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2010. First printing. Paperback. Softcover, 195 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, light rubbing to tips of covers.
A Japanese New Religion: Rissho Kosei-Kai in a Mountain Hamlet; Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, number 1
Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies / The University of Michigan, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, illustrated, good copy in near fine dust jacket, erasable pencil-notes to the text.
Sansuiga no byoho; ?????? /
Tokyo: 1975. First printing. Paperback. First edition. In Japanese. 4to, wraps in dust jacket, 103 pp., illustrations. About landscape painting and Sumie technique. About fine. Gyokuun Yamada 1915 - ?
Photographic Views of Japan Booklets, Including: Festivals, Kabuki, Children, Village Scenes, and Tea Ceremony (Series 1, 2, 5, 8 and 9)
Tokyo: Francis Haar, Ca. 1940. Wraps. Series of 5 booklets by Francis Haar featuring thematic photographs of Japan, including Festivals, Kabuki, Children, Village Scenes, and Tea Ceremony. ca. 1940s. Booklets in stapled wraps that fold into a mailable envelope, each 5 by 4 inches. 10 real photographs in each booklet.....
Selected Catalogue of Hakone Art Museum, Atami Art Museum; Volume 2
Gora: Hakone Art Museum, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with 139 photographs, 18 of which are in color. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Text in Japanese. This volume only.
Mori Arinori
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 535pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ has faint sun to spine, mild edgewear.
Japanese Feudal Laws (1913) - The Tokugawa Legislation, IV: The Edict in 100 Sections [Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. XLI Part V
Tokyo: The Asiatic Society of Japan, 1913. First Printing. Hardcover. 9 x 6 inches, cloth backed boards, about very good, light wear to spine cloth, boards a bit rubbed and quite tanned and darkened, contents very good, some toning. Paginated 683-878 pp. Most of the volume is taken up with.....
Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional History
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. Paperback. 1994, Softcover, 269 pp. Fine copy, like new.
The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 4: Early Modern Japan
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, very good clean copy with just a touch of wear, previous owner's small red chopmark on title page (Helen Hopper, author of a number of scholarly books on women and feminism in Japan). 831 pp.
Kabuki
Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 1956, stated First Edition. 163 pp. Hardcover, cream cloth, 8vo. Illustrated in b&w. Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket. A lovely copy. Covers are tight and clean. Previous owner's signature at fly leaf, otherwise a Fine copy. Clean, bright and unmarked.....
Bugaku
Nara, Japan: Kasuga Shrine, Nara, 1989. First edition. Paperback. 1989. First edition. Paperback, 8vo. in pictorial wraps. Unpaginated, illustrated, text in English and Japanese. Very good. Light edge wear to wraps, ownership label on flyleaf. Contents unmarked.
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, nearly fine, one tiny chip to bottom of rear panel, previous owner's small chopmark on title page. 275 pp.
The Lesson of Japanese Architecture, Revised Edition
Boston: Branford, 1954. Second edition. Hardcover. 1954, second edition, revised. From the collection of Nobel Prize winner George Wald, with his signature on the fly leaf. Very Good, no dust jacket. Boards bumped and scratched; small abrasion to bottom corner of front board; sound binding; clean contents. 192 pp., illustrated.....