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Report on the First Scientific Expedition to Manchoukuo. June-October 1933. Section VI. Part II. Palaeolithic Artifacts Excavated at Ho-Chia-Kou in Ku-Hsiang-Tung, Manchoukuo. July 1936

Tokunaga, Shigeyasu and Naora, Nobuo · 1936

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Tokyo, Waseda University, 1936. First edition. Stiff paper wrappers. 107 pp. + plates. Illus. with 26 b/w plates and 53 intext drawings and photos. Sm. 4to. Text in Japanese with 9 page summary in English. Some small chips to spine and front fore corner of wrapper, else a very...

Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society London. Volume X. Twenty-First Session 1911-12. Part I.

Japan Society · 1912

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London, Japan Society, 1912. First edition. Paper wrappers. 98 pp. Illus. with b/w plates and musical scores. Sm. 4to. Includes articles on: The Japanese as I have Known Them, by Douglas B.W. Sladen; Japan Ahead in Music, by Alfred Westarp; Yoshitsune, the Boy Hero of Japan, b...

Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Second Series, Vol. XVI. May 1938

Japan. Asiatic Society of Japan · 1938

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Tokyo, Asiatic Society of Japan, 1938. First edition. Cloth. xv, 356, 4 pp. 8vo. Includes articles on: Peasant Uprising in Japan of the Tokugawa Period, by Hugh Borton; Kumazawa Banzan, His Life and Ideas, by Galen M. Fisher; Dai Gaku Waumon By Kumazawa Banzan, translated by G...

Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Vol. XLI, Part I. 1913: Modern Japanese Literature

Japan. Asiatic Society of Japan. Dening, Walter · 1913

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Tokyo, Asiatic Society of Japan, 1913. First edition. Cloth. vii, 193 pp. 8vo. Contains just the one article, "Modern Japanese Literature" by Walter Dening. A very good copy with minor edgewear and rear hinge starting.

The Way of Ume

Sawyer, Edith A. · 1928

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, William Edwin Rudge, 1928. First edition. Paper covered boards. 145 pp. Illus. with 3 b/w drawings, 1 photo and 1 music sheet. 8vo. William Elliot Griffis, intro. A good+ copy with a small tear along head of spine, some soiling on the boards. No dust jacket.

Just Before the Dawn. The Life and Work of Ninomiya Sontoku

Armstrong, Robert Cornell · 1912

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, Macmillan Company, 1912. First edition. Cloth. xii, 273 pp. Illus. with 20 b/w drawings. Sm. 8vo. Inscribed by the author. Ninomiya Sontoku (1787-1856) was a philosopher and economist in pre-Meiji Japan. A very good copy. No dust jacket, small scuff to spine tail.

Land Utilization in Japan

Nasu, Shiroshi · 1929

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Tokyo, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1929. First edition. Cloth. ii, [4], 4, [2], 262, 6 pp. Illus. with 1 color and 2 b/w maps, 2 photos + drawings. 8vo. Land utilization and agriculture were important pre-war topics. Chip to head of spine affecting title, extremities worn,...

Religion and Democracy in Modern Japan

Yanaibara, Tadao · 1948

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Tokyo, Japan Institute of Pacific Studies / International Publishing Co. 1948. First edition. Paper wrappers. 41 pp. 8vo. Japan Institute of Pacific Studies. A good+ copy, browned and chipped along extremities.

The Small Industries of Japan. Their Growth and Development

Uyeda, Teijiro · 1938

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, Secretariat Institute of Pacific Relations, 1938. First edition. Cloth. xxii, 320 pp. Illus. w/123 tables and 75 b/w diagrams (5 of which are folding). 8vo. A report in the International Research Series of the Institute of Pacific Relations. A series of original repo...

Lieutenant Lookeast and Other Stories

Ibuse, Masuji · 1971

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Tokyo, Kodansha International, 1971. First edition. Cloth. 247 pp. 8vo. John Bester, trans. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

The New Religions of Japan. A Bibliography of Western-Language Materials

Earhart, H. Byron · 1970

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Tokyo, Sophia University, 1970. First edition. Cloth. 96 pp. Sm. 4to. A very good crisp exlib copy with the usual markings.

Japan's Modern Century. A Special Issue of Monumenta Nipponica Prepared in Celebration of the Centennial of the Meiji Restoration

Skrzypczak, Edmund · 1968

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Tokyo, Sophia Univ. and Charles E. Tuttle Co. 1968. First printing. Cloth. xi, 207 pp. Illus. with 11 color and 2 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. Owner's name on front pastedown, else a near fine copy in a very good+ price-clipped dust jacket.

A Short History of Japan

Clement, Ernest Wilson; Jorgensen, Arthur · 1936

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Tokyo, Kyo Bun Kwan, 1936. Later printing. Cloth. vi, 250 pp. Illus. with 4 b/w photos and 2 maps. Sm. 8vo. A very good copy with owner's names on free front endpaper, in a good+ rubbed dust jacket with a few chips to the spine.

Japanese Theatre

Bowers, Faubion · 1952

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New York, Hermitage House, 1952. First edition. Cloth. xxi, Illus. with 19 color & b/w photos and b/w drawings. 8vo. Joshua Logan, foreword. Faubion Bowers was General Douglas MacArthur's personal Japanese language interpreter, a scholar, and known as The Man Who Saved Kabuki ...

Tanuma Okitsugu, 1719-1788. Forerunner of Modern Japan

Hall, John Whitney · 1955

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Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. xii, 208 pp. 8vo. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series XIV. Occasional marginalia and underlines, else very good, in a chipped and torn dust jacket.

Seiyu Roku. On Oil Manufacturing

Okura, Nagatsune · 1974

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New Brunswick, NJ, Olearius Editions, 1974. Reprint. Paper wrappers in Japanese style cloth box with faux ivory clasps. 79 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. Matsukawa Hanzan, illus. On double leaves Japanese style. An English translation of the original 1836 Japanese edition....

The Japanese Woman Looking Forward

Straelen, H.V. (Henricus Johannes Josephus Maria) · 1940

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Tokyo, Kyo Bun Kwan, 1940. First printing. Silk stamped in red. 191 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Inscribed by the author and an editor. A nice inscription, dedicated twice, once by the author to the mother of Mrs. Marguerite Iwamoto (who was his teacher and who receives no...

Vacation Days in Hawaii and Japan

Taylor, Jr., Charles M. · 1906

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London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. First English edition. Cloth. 361 pp. Illus. with 100 b/w photos. 8vo. Rebacked with original spine and covers laid down; a very good copy with light soiling on the boards, binding tight.

Chushingura, an Exposition

Shioya, Sakae · 1940

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Tokyo, Hokuseido Press, 1940. First edition. Cloth. xii, 236 pp. Illus. with 4 folding color plates accompanied by a tissue guard with descriptive letterpress. 8vo. Hiroshige, art. A criticial discussion of the Chushingura, one of the most famous Japanese stories and revenge t...

Japanese Works of Art, Prints, Paintings and Screens. April 24 and 25, 1991

Sotheby's (Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co.) · 1991

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New York, Sotheby's (Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co.), 1991. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. Unpaged. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Sale 6152 Tokaido. 531 lots. Swords (25), Sword Fittings (98), Paintings, Sculture, Inro, Netsuke, and more. A near fine copy.