1950s pocket map booklet of the Tokyo metropolitan area
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.
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2 portfolio volumes of Ukiyo-e-Kesakushu woodcut prints, Taisho Era
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.....
28th Japanese Craft and Industrial Arts Exhibition; Dai nijuhakkai Nihon dent k gei ten
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.....
Aspects of Issaikyo-Japan, Catalogue of the 87th Okurakai Exhibition
Kyoto: Otani University, 2002. Paperback. Text in Japanese, Large 8vo, wraps, very good, 51 pp, illustrations, some in color.
Choice Selection of Ukiyo E Masterpieces, Series No. 4
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.....
Hieizan o Aruku / A Walk on Mt. Hiei
Tokyo: Yama to Keikokusha, 2002. Paperback. 8vo, color photo wraps, very good, illustrated, much in color, 151 pp, text in Japanese, about the sacred mountain near Kyoto.
Journal of the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the Nakaminami Elementary School, Kumamoto Prefecture (1955)
Kobe: 1955. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, 288 pp, illustrated and with many plates. The Elementary school is on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu in the Kumamoto prefecture.
Kimono Salon, Spring '82 issue (1982)
Kyoto: 1982. Paperback. 12 x 10 inches, wraps, ery good, some light wear and two horizontal thin streaks of abrasion to front cover, contents very good, 180 pp, illustrated with color photos throughout of various fashions of kimonos for ceremonial purposes, tea ceremonies, Noh, Kabuki, etc. High-end Japanese kimono fashion!.....
"Let's Talk About Tomorrow" - Recommendations for Revitalizing the Kitakyushu Region / Kitakyushu Chiiki Kassei-ka e no Teigen "Asu O Katarou"
Kitakyushu: NHK, Kitakyushu Broadcasting Station, 1987. First printing. Paperback. Large 8vo (10 x 7 inches), wraps, 253 pp, illustrated. Text in Japanese. The region is NE of Fukuoka and includes Kokura Castle, at the northern tip of the southern half of Japan. Very RARE with no copies in libraries located.....
Nakayama Trail / Road Picture Book
Tokyo: Bijutsu Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. Text in Japanese. 2 volumes in slipcase, very tall narrow folio, the first volume is a hardback ca. 30 pp, with maps and photos showing points along the way of the Nakayama Road including monasteries, temples, etc. The second volume is in a......
Nihon minzoku jiten; Japanese Folklore Encyclopedia
Tokyo: Kobundo, 1994. Hardcover. Flexible cloth in dust jacket, very good, mild wear. 862 pp. Text in Japanese.
Unique 1950 photo album of a Japanese village festival - 50 fine photos
11.75 x 8.25 inches, silk brocade covers, bound accordion-style, with 50 mounted photos measuring roughly 6 x 4.25 inches each, showing a festival and parade involving a "float," martial artists and many school-children, with quite a few activities. Some foxing or spotting to the accordion pages, but the photos in.....
Wood Block Prints: the Life of Japanese children. A set of 6 pictures 8" x 10."
Kyoto: Kyoto Hanga-In, Ca. 1950. First printing. Hardcover. 10.5 x 8.5 inches, boards portfolio with string tie, 8x10 woodblock prints in color on rice paper in fine condition, portfolio very good with minor discoloration. Artists not identified.
Japanese Expansion and American Policies
New York: Macmillan, 1916. Hardcover. Second edition, 1916, very good in original dark blue cloth gilt, 267 pp, ads, some offsetting to rear endpaper.
The Living Treasures of Japan
London: Wildwood House, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1973, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, oblong quarto, staggared pagination, illustrated in color. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, small sticker ghost to front pastedown, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with rubbing, mild edgewear.....
Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 2006, hardcover with brown stamped beige cloth boards, octavo, 253pp., illustrated in color. Book VG+ with faint crease to spine, sticker remnant to rear board, binding tight, previous owner's sticker to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean bright and unmarked.....
Tu Tze-Chun
Tokyo / Rutland, VT: Kodansha / Japan Publications, 1965. First English language edition. Hardcover. Signed by the artist, Naoko Matsubara, on the title page. 1965, First Edition in English. Hardcover. English text. Beautiful woodcuts throughout. A fine, sparkling copy in the original slipcase. Also includes the original obi band. An.....
Lucy T. Aldrich Collection - Japanese No Drama Costumes and Priest Robes
Providence, Rhode Island: Rhode Island School of Design, 1937. First edition. Original Wraps. First Edition. c.1937. Original Japanese Paper Wraps. Bound with knotted silk string. 4to. 16pp. (text) + 22 full-page black & white illustrations. Very Good+. Light general wear to wraps, light soil. Contents unmarked.
Modern Japan and its Problems
New York: E. P. Dutton, (1927). Hardcover. No date, but others peg this as 1927. 8vo, red cloth in most of the dust jacket (pieced back together and put in a Brodart). 226 pp, slightly musty and foxed.
Japanese Urbanism: Industry and Politics in Kariya, 1872-1972
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. First printing. Hardcover. octavo, brown cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good condition, jacket shows rubbing and mild discolorization and soiling, book shows mild wear to boards, 276pp.
Education and Examination in Modern Japan
Univ of Tokyo Pr, 1990. Hardcover. 234 pp. Hardcover, red buckram, 8vo. Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Price sticker at rear panel of DJ; slightest bumping of DJ at head of spine and upper corners. A tight, clean copy. 8vo.
Zen and American Transcendentalism - An Investigation of One's Self (INSCRIBED)
Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY SHOEI ANDO. First Edition. c.1970. Hardcover. Cloth. 12mo. 218pp. Near Fine in Good dustjacket. Light soil to edges of text block, mild offsetting to endpapers. Moderate wear to dustjacket, creasing, soiling, moderate chipping to edges, loss to spine-ends amounting to half.....
Reflections on God, Self and Humanity
Nara, Japan: Tenri Jihosha, 1968. First English language edition. Hardcover. 1968, First in English. 119 pp. Hardcover, cream cloth, 8vo. Fine copy in Fine glassine jacket, housed in Near Fine original slipcase. All contents tight, clean and unmarked. Like New. Publisher's letter laid-in.
Aesthetic Eyes of Aoyama Jiro (2 vols. in slipcase)
Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2006. Paperback. 2006. 2 volumes in slipcase. Fine. Text volume in English and Japanese. Plates volume in Japanese only. Thoroughly illustrated with Aoyama Jiro's book designs. A lovely copy.
Me de miru kumagaya fukaya osato no hyakunen / Me de miru kumagaya fukaya oosato no 100nen / Hundred years of Kumagaya Fukaya Osato
Japan: Kyodoshuppansha, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. 1998. Text in Japanese. Folio, hardback in dust jacket, 147 pp., illustrated in black and white and in color. Fine in near fine jacket.