Yokohama: Uyeda, Ca. 1900. 10 numbered postcards, hand colored, in original envelope in color with silver illumination. Although not identified on the cards or envelope, the one copy in Worldcat, which is at Harvard, identified the publisher as Uyeda in Yokohama. Very good or better with hint of soil and.....
Japan: Asohido, Ca. 1900s. 14 color postcards of scenes in or near Kyoto, captioned in English and Japanese. Some published by Asohido. Very good to fine with sharp corners, unmarked and clean, just a faint bit of toning & soil. In original tan paper envelope with red calligraphic chopmark.
(Japan): 1922. Map measures 20.75 x 15.25 inches, printed in red and black, good to very good light edgewear, tanning, creasing, housed in homemade gray folder with cord binding, hand lettered in Chinese as "Map of the Tomb of the War Dead" for "Anzo Town." We assume the tomb or.....
Osaka: Warakujiya Shoten, Cs. 1955. Paperback. Wraps, very good, 36 pages of maps in color of Tokyo and region, maps measure 7 x 8 inches. In Japanese.
Tokyo: ca. 1900s. Wraps. 2 periodicals, both 10 x 7.5 inches, pictorial color wraps, very good, light wear, illustrated throughout, including some folding color plates of battle scenes and other scenes from the Russo-Japanese wars that lasted from the 1890s through the early 1900s.
Tokyo: Ca. 1920s. Hardcover. 2 volumes, bound in silk with paper chemises, with a total of 73 woodcut prints that measure approximately 9.5 x 7 inches each. Some ex-library marks from Carnegie Mellon University (including their deaccession stamp), but hardly any stamps to the pages, and images all in excellent.....
Tokyo: Gyodo Convenience, Ca. 1910s. 24 unused postcards, gravure photos of Kyoto's temples, castles, shrines, gardens and scenery. Very good or better with light soil to some.
Tokyo: Nihon K gei Ka, 1981. First printing. Paperback. Quarto, wraps, 117 (8) pp, illustrated with many b/w plates. Very good. The exhibition was held in several Japanese cities. Laid in is a 4 pp. prospectus for the exhibition in Kyoto that focusecd on industrial arts. OCLC/Worldcat locates only two.....
Japan: 1906. 3 gravure photo postcards of scenes at the Girls' Imperial University near Tokyo: cattle pen, girls cultivating a garden, country road. Addressed on verso with stamps and postmarks from 1906. Founded in 1847 for the purpose of educating children of the Imperial Family, it moved to a location.....
Kyoto: Ca. 1900s. 4 color postcards, all of scenes in and around Nikko in the Tochigi Prefecture. All very good, lightest toning and soil, unused and without messages or marks. In original pictorial envelope.
Japan: Ca. 1900s. 5 hand colored postcards of Japanese landscapes, including Fuji. Very good, unmarked, sharp and clean but light toning and scattered tiny spots on images.
Japan: Ca. 1900s. 5 hand colored postcards of Japanese women, geisha, girls, from the early 1900s. All very good, sharp and crisp, lightest toning and soil visible on back sides.
Kyoto: Gyoinsha Kaishiki Printing, Ca. 1915. 6 color postcards of Toshogu Shrine in Nikko, along with Japanese descriptive sheet and in souvenir envelope from Toshogu Shrine. Postcards are captioned in English and Japanese and are unused, clean sharp cards. Envelope with some wear and tear.
Kyoto: Goyoinsha Aikishi Printing, Ca. 1900s. 6 postcards in original paper envelope with color depiction of the shrine, postcards very good to fine, clean and sharp, envelope a little tanned and worn. Accompanied by postcard sized slip of paper in Japanese with commentary on the shrine and its architecture. Cards.....
(Nikko?): Shimotsuke Sanrakuen Sales Department, Ca. 1900s. 8 b/w postcards, all of scenes in and around Nikko in the Tochigi Prefecture. All very good, lightest toning and soil, unused and without messages or marks. In original envelope with Japanese text -- the postcards are captioned in English and Japanese.
Japan: Ca. 1900s. 9 colored postcards, all of scenes in and around Nikko in the Tochigi Prefecture. All very good, lightest toning and soil, unused and without messages or marks.
Japan: Early 1900s. 9 cards, hand colored, all very good to fine, clean, sharp and unmarked, lightest soil and toning visible to verso sides. Scenes of work and life in urban settings, shopping, riverside life, having tea and a smoke, peasants, what looks like a raft ferry for farmers, foot-propelled.....
Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 1954. Hardcover. 2nd volume of two volume set. Cloth, very good, light tanning to pages, in used and soiled original thick card slipcase. Pagined 695-1513, with index. Text in JAPANESE.
Tokyo: Shunyodo, 1897. Wraps. 9.75 x 6.5 inches, softcover, on rice paper, with color cover, 35 pp, with 17 color woodcut images. Very good. Our Japanese is nonexistent but it appears one of the artists may be Seitei Watanabe.
Kyoto: Otani University, 2002. Paperback. Text in Japanese, Large 8vo, wraps, very good, 51 pp, illustrations, some in color.
Kyoto: Nishijin Textile Museum, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Vol. I of what would be a ten-volume set ultimately. Folio, 17.5 x 12 inches, original decorated cloth binding in remains of original cloth slipcase. Book is very good with light ex-library marks from Carnegie Mellon University, with their official deaccession stamp.....
Japan: Ca. 1900s. Early 1900s set of 10 hand colored postcards of the rice industry, in original printed envelope. Very good to fine, clean and unmarked, crisp and sharp, lightest toning and soil, light wear, yellowing and tanning to envelope. The postcards show preparing ground for planting rice, cultivating rice.....
Yokohama: Ueda Company, Ca. 1907. Date, place and publisher not given, but someone on flickr who seemed fairly knowledgeable posted pictures from a set of 12 cards and said they were published in Yokohama by the Ueda Company in 1907, featuring identical images to ours. Our set of ten (complete.....
Tokyo: 1985. Second Edition. Wraps. 9 x 8 inches, softcover, near fine, about 100 pp, illustrated in color throughout, text in Japanese.
Tokyo (?): Ca. 1950. Hardcover. 13.25 x 10 inch portfolio with 12 woodblock prints in color mounted on larger sheets of handsome cream laid paper, all in fine condition, housed in portfolio boards with string tie, good with light restoration along spine and some darkening to borders. Probably 1950s or.....