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The Rising Sun
by John Toland
John Toland was one of the most widely read military historians of the twentieth century. His many books include The Last 100 Days; Ships in the Sky; Battle: The Story of the Bulge; But Not in Shame; Adolf Hitler; and No Man’s Land. Originally from Wisconsin, he lived in Connecticut for many years with his wife.
The Book Of Five Rings
by Miyamoto Musashi
The Book of Five Rings is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645. It is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.
Japanese History Books & Ephemera
![Anatomy of Dependence.理論の展開 [eibun ban amae no kozo] [Sin and Shame; The Concept of Ki; The Toraware Mentality; Fear of Others; Homosexual Feelings; The Sense of Guilt, the Sense of Solidarity & the Feeling of Being Victimized...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/338/714/47714338.0.b.1.jpg)
Anatomy of Dependence.理論の展開 [eibun ban amae no kozo] [Sin and Shame; The Concept of Ki; The Toraware Mentality; Fear of Others; Homosexual Feelings; The Sense of Guilt, the Sense of Solidarity & the Feeling of Being Victimized...]
by Doi, Takeo, 1920- 土居, 健郎 [foreword; trans., John Bester]
Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, c1981, 2001., 2001. As New. 1st trade paperback edition, 1st printing ; 180 pp. ; 19 cm. ; blue stiff paper wrappers in color dustjacket ; ISBN: 0870114948 ; OCLC: 8355304 ; Translation of: Amae no kozo ; "A classic study of the Japanese psyche, a starting point for a true understanding of Japanese behavior" ; AS NEW
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€17.96
![Kabuki Plays on Stage ; volume 1: Brilliance and Bravado, 1697-1766. [Kotobuki Soga no Taimen; Shibaraku, Domo Mata, Uiro Uri; Kajiwara Heizo Homare no Ishikiri; Kuzunoha; Sakaro; Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami; Hikimado; etc]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/891/715/47715891.0.b.jpg)
Kabuki Plays on Stage ; volume 1: Brilliance and Bravado, 1697-1766. [Kotobuki Soga no Taimen; Shibaraku, Domo Mata, Uiro Uri; Kajiwara Heizo Homare no Ishikiri; Kuzunoha; Sakaro; Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami; Hikimado; etc]
by Brandon, James R. & Samuel L. Leiter. [cover ill., Utagawa Toyokuni; [Ichigawa Danjuror, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Hasegawa Senshi, Matsuda Bunkodo, Takeda Izumo, Namike Sosuke, Takeda Izumo, Namiki Senryu, Nakamura Akei, Kineya Tadajiro, Chikamatsu Han
Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2002., 2002. As New. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; xiii, 391 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. ; ISBN: 0824824032 ; OCLC: 51812862 ; LCCN: 2001-27912 ; OCLC: 46952291 ; consists of thirteen plays that showcase early kabuki's scintillating and boisterous styles of performance and illustrates the contrasting dramatic techniques cultivated by actors in Edo (Tokyo) and Kamigata (Osaka and Tokyo). ; AS NEW
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€66.16
The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
by FUKUZAWA, Yukichi [with] Eiichi Kiyooka (trans.)
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1968. Second Printing Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. xv, 407. Illustrated with a few black-and-white photographs. Includes a chronological table. Index. Bound in tan cloth with gilt emblem stamped on the front board, gilt lettering on spine. Former owner name on the front free endpaper. In the price-clipped dust jacket that shows moderate edge-wear. A fine assessment of Japan's transition from feudal introversion to...
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€28.36
![The Dark Side : Infamous Japanese Crimes & Criminals. [Edo Period (1603-1868). Roots of the law -- Lawmen and their assistants -- Behind bars -- The death penalty -- Famous rogues -- Criminal women courted cruel fates -- Exile and rehabilitation -- Quacks, phonies and other con artists of yore -- Scary times for foreigners -- Meiji Period (1868-1912). Early Meiji times -- The mid-Meiji period -- Foreigners in Japan -- The late Meiji period -- Taisho Period (1912-1926). The early Taisho period -- The late Taisho period -- Showa (1926-1989) and Heisei (1989- ) Periods. The early Showa period -- The war years -- The postwar period -- Rightists and leftists -- Urban crimes and celebrity criminals -- Faceless killers, unknown motives] 日本犯罪史](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/911/715/47715911.0.b.1.jpg)
The Dark Side : Infamous Japanese Crimes & Criminals. [Edo Period (1603-1868). Roots of the law -- Lawmen and their assistants -- Behind bars -- The death penalty -- Famous rogues -- Criminal women courted cruel fates -- Exile and rehabilitation -- Quacks, phonies and other con artists of yore -- Scary times for foreigners -- Meiji Period (1868-1912). Early Meiji times -- The mid-Meiji period -- Foreigners in Japan -- The late Meiji period -- Taisho Period (1912-1926). The early Taisho period -- The late Taisho period -- Showa (1926-1989) and Heisei (1989- ) Periods. The early Showa period -- The war years -- The postwar period -- Rightists and leftists -- Urban crimes and celebrity criminals -- Faceless killers, unknown motives] 日本犯罪史
by Schreiber, Mark. [foreword, David E. Kaplan]
東京 : 講談社インターナショナル ; Tokyo ; New York ; London : Kodansha International, 2001., 2001. As New. 1st ed. ; red cloth with black lettering in blue, red, grey and black pictorial dustjacket ; 250 p. : illustrated ; ISBN: 4770028067 ; OCLC: 47822863 ; Contents: Edo Period (1603-1868). Roots of the law -- Lawmen and their assistants -- Behind bars -- The death penalty -- Famous rogues --Criminal women courted cruel fates -- Exile and rehabilitation -- Quacks, phonies and other con...
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€28.36
![Opulence [cover subtitle:] The Kimonos and Robes of Itchiku Kubota](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/450/124/1578124450.0.b.jpg)
Opulence [cover subtitle:] The Kimonos and Robes of Itchiku Kubota
by YAMANOBE, Tomoyuki
(Tokyo): (Kodansha International Ltd.), 1984. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers with dust jacket. Fine/Very Good. Takeshi Nishikawa, John Hymas, Keizo Kaneko (photographers). Folio. Pp. 147. With "Personal Reflections" by Tomoyuki Yamanobe. Lavishly illustrated throughout with large or full page color photographs of Itchiku Kubota's creations; many are fold-outs. Bound in stiff printed wraps, white with black lettering printed on cover. In the illustrated dust jacket that has light age-toning to...
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€42.53
Japanese Life
by OGAWA, K. [Kazumasa]
Tokyo: Kazumasa Ogawa, 1892. First Edition. Bound in stiff decorated wraps with stabbed binding using silk ties. Good+. Kazumasa Ogawa. Folio. Pp. [11]. Featuring 27 black and white photos with captions on 11 plates, each plate with a tissue guard. Wear and soiling commensurate with age, with corners rounded and occasional slight, closed tears along fore-edge of two or three plates, each less than an inch. With an errata sheet bound in. This is not a volume in Ogawa's "Illustrations of Japanese Life,"...
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€708.90
Untitled Japanese Woodblock Print of a Sunflower.
by IKEDA DUIGETSU. 池田瑞
[Japan].. [circa1950s].. Colour woodblock print, 35.7 x 28 cms; 46.7 x 34.1 cms (sheet size), artist's signature and chop lower right, adhesive residue to upper and lower margins from previous matting (outside image area), otherwise very good, bright condition. Lovely Japanese woodblock print of a sunflower, with artist's signature and seal in the image at lower right. Printed on thick art paper, with burring from the baren on verso. Ikeda Duigetsu (1877-1944), specialised in flower painting. He in...
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€200.78
This is Japan Number Nine 1962
by SAITO, Torao (editor)
Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company, 1961. First Edition. Stiff illustrated wrappers. Very Good. Folio. Pp. 403. Lavishly illustrated: black & white and color photo reproductions, display advertising, metallic inks, coated and uncoated papers, one mylar overlay. Stiff laminated paper color photo illustrated wraps, perfect bound. In English. Cover edges minimally delaminated, scuffs and mellowed creases, leaves crisp and bright, binding tight. Published annually from 1954 to 1971 with substantial...
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€47.26
![The River Ki. [Kinokawa. English]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/670/400/247400670.0.b.jpg)
The River Ki. [Kinokawa. English]
by Ariyoshi, Sawako, 1931-1984.有吉佐和子 [Mildred Tahara, trans.; S. Katakura, jacket design]
Tokyo : Kodansha International ; New York ; San Francisco : distributed in the United States through Harper & Row, 1980., 1980. Very Good. 1st edition ; 243 pp. ; map ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0870113852 (Kodansha International/USA); 9780870113857 (Kodansha International/USA) LCCN: 79-66240 ; LC: PL845.R5; Dewey: 895.6/35 ; OCLC: 6644428 ; translated by Mildred Tahara. ; dark red clpoth with grey lettering, in color photographic dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels, pocket ; "The River Ki, short and swift and...
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€42.53
The Okinawan Reversion Story: War, Peace, Occupation, Reversion, 1945-1972
by Warner, Gordon
Okinawa, Japan: Executive Link, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine/Near Fine. Photographs Throghout. Xxii, 237 Pp. Large Format Soft Cover. First Printing Stated, 1995. Fine, In Dust Jacket With Some Wear Around Top Of Spine. Inscribed By The Author, Also With A Presentation Label On The Front Panel Of The Dust Jacket.
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€106.34
Narrative of The Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59.
by OLIPHANT, LAURENCE
New York.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers.. First American edition.. 1860.. 60 black and white wood engravings, chromolithograph frontispiece showing "A Winter Scene in Japan", with foxed tissue-guard. xvi + 645pp, appendices. Original cloth stamped and lettered in gilt. 23 x 14cm. A history, told in the format of a personal narrative, of the proceedings of the Special Mission to China and Japan, which extended over a period of two years. .
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€308.90
![米利幹新誌 巻之５. [Meriken shinshi Makino Go]. [New Account of America Part 5].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/900/382/863382900.0.b.jpg)
米利幹新誌 巻之５. [Meriken shinshi Makino Go]. [New Account of America Part 5].
by 海西漁夫 [KAISEI-GYOFU] ("FISHERMAN FROM THE WEST"), 鶴峯戊申 [TSURUMINE SHIGENOBU]
Edo.. 1855.. Volume 5 only. 4 double page black and white woodblocks from copper engravings, 18 folded leaves, some worming throughout, original wrappers considerably worn and wormed with a little loss. A reading copy only of the 5th and last volume of 米利幹新誌 巻之５ [New Account of America]. 1853 the year the first volume of this set was published was the year Commodore Matthew Perry's American fleet came to Uraga Bay. The four illustrations show: the...
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€154.45
![A New War Map of the Aleutian Island Sea Road to Japan. [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/941/434/1547434941.0.b.jpg)
A New War Map of the Aleutian Island Sea Road to Japan. [caption title]
by [WWII MAP OF JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC]
Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune.. 28 January,1942.. Printed colour map, 40.3 x 53.6 cm; 46.5 x 60 cm (sheet), inset map of the North Pacific, back cover from a section of the Chicago Daily Tribune newspaper (pages 21-34) January 28, 1942; central fold, edgewear and browning with a few minor tears not affecting the map, in very good condition. Based on a Rand McNally map and issued less than two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese. The Tribune briskly got to work issuing maps for...
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€370.68
Pictorial History of Air War Over Japan - Japanese Army Air Force
by WATANABE, Yohji [Yoji]
Tokyo: Hara Shobo Co., Ltd, 1980. First Edition. Stiff illustrated wrappers. Very Good. 4to. Pp. 192. Illustrated with b&w photo reproductions, diagrams and maps. Text in Japanese, chapter heads and photo captions with English translations. Photo illustrated stiff laminated paper wraps. Laid in publisher advertisement, order postcard, and a note apologizing for this book's delayed appearance. Covers lightly scuffed and edges rubbed. Companion to the author's 1981 Pictorial History of Air War Over...
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€70.89
![愚仙畫報 風景の巻. [Gusen gaho fukei no maki]. [Gusen Pictorial: Landscapes].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/746/679/1132679746.0.b.jpg)
愚仙畫報 風景の巻. [Gusen gaho fukei no maki]. [Gusen Pictorial: Landscapes].
by [YŪBUNKAN SHUPPANBU].有文舘出版部
京都.[Kyoto].: 有文舘.[Yūbunkan].. 明治四十五 [1912].. 16 two-tone black and grey woodblock prints with accompanying Japanese text on opposite leaf, [31]pp unpaginated, four stab hole string binding, paper title label laid down upper cover. Covers worn and stained, extremities worn with loss. Some hold barely affecting the text one leaf and loss of paper upper corner lower paste down. Generally good. 16.6 x 23.9cm. Yamauchi...
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€278.01
Asahi Pentax Photography : 1964 Asahi Pentax International Photo Contest ; ASAHI ペンタックス写真集 [Olympic photography ; Free form photography ; Natu
by Asahi Optical Co. [photos, Takamasa Inamura, S. Tanahashi, Ikkoh Narahara, Radahiko Hayashi, Shoji Ueda, Yoichi Midorikawa, Shigeki Yagihara, Yozo Itoh, Tokumitsu Iwai, Kinsuke Shimada, Hiroshi Hamaya, Sakae Tamura, Hans Palmgren, Josef Schmid, etc]
Tokyo, Japan : Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. ; Zaventem, Belgium : Asahi Optical Europe, S.A., [1964], 1964. Very Good. White, textured cloth with gold lettering ; possible defect in front endpapers (or artistic rippled effect?) ; 225 photographs, some in color, with detailed annotations from the photographers ; features a section on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics ; slight soiling of front eps ; VG [Some text in this listing is in Japanese Shift-JIS font]
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€64.27
Engineers of the Eighth U.S. Army in Action. A Portfolio of Sketches: Tokyo-Yokohama Area. 1945-1946.
by MILLER, ALBERT T
Yokohama.: Eighth U.S. Army Printing Plant.. 1946.. Colour and black and white full page plates, 36 pages on double leaves, bound in oblong Japanese paper covered boards with ties, 28 x 39 cm. Upper cover lifting, a little minor insect damage paper covered boards, light soiling title page, mild crease front free endpaper and title page. Very good. Illustrations show the building of Haneda's airstrip, handling of materials at Yokohama's North Docks, building of quonset huts. The last few plates show the...
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€154.45
Minka Traditional Houses of Rural Japan
by KAWASHIMA, Chūji (Lynn E. Riggs, trans.)
Tokyo / New York / San Francisco: Kodansha International Ltd, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio. Pp. 260. Double title page with photo. Illustrated with more than 400 black & white photo reproductions, floor plans and elevation diagrams. With glossary and index. Brown cloth, titles stamped in white on the spine, endpaper maps: leaf edges lightly spotted, else crisp and bright; binding tight. In the color illustrated dust jacket with price intact on the front...
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€212.67
Japan: Magazine of Overseas Travel 1927. 10 issues from March through December 1927
by [BEAUTIFUL NYK TRAVEL MAGAZINE]
San Francisco.: Nippon Yusen Kaisha. 1st Edition.. 1927.. Filled with countless black & white photographic images and striking cover art as well as numerous advertisements for hotels and passenger ships together with fashions of the era. In depth articles and commentary, and a focus on trans-pacific personalites. Each issue has 56pp. 31 x 23cm, original pictorial wrappers some with a mild vertical crease. Near fine copies. A loosely inserted card from New York's Japan Society states that this periodical,...
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€988.48
![Handicrafts of Okinawa: A Pictorial Record [Handcrafts]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/623/479/1578479623.0.b.jpg)
Handicrafts of Okinawa: A Pictorial Record [Handcrafts]
by OKAMURA, Kichiemon
Japan: Seidosha Publishing Co, LTD, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover with Slipcase. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. [3], 4-30 (English section) and 143 (Japanese section). Illustrated throughout with mostly black & white photography, and a few color photographs. Handmade paper endpapers. Bound in khaki handmade, textured paper, with title English title stamped on front cover, Japanese title stamped on rear cover, and Japanese characters stamped in red on spine. In the illustrated slipcase featuring a color...
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€70.89
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (2-vol Set)
by John Toland
Random House, 1970. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€16.96
Chrysanthemums of Japan
by OGAWA, K. [Kazumasa]
Tokyo: Kazumasa Ogawa, 1892. First Edition. Bound in stiff decorated wraps with stabbed binding using silk ties. Good+. Kazumasa Ogawa. Folio. Pp. [14]. Featuring 13 black and white photos with captions, one per plate, and one colored photograph, each plate with a tissue guard. Wear and soiling commensurate with age, most notably on the top left corner of the front cover. With corners rounded and slight edge chipping.The rear cover has slight damage visible at a lower corner (please see photo). With an...
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€708.90
![Love Match and Arranged Marriage : A Tokyo-Detroit Comparison. [Contrasting Concepts of Mate Selection; How Marriage Partners are Actually Chosen; After Marriage; Courtship; The Shape of Marriage in Japan and the USA, etc]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/343/716/47716343.0.b.jpg)
Love Match and Arranged Marriage : A Tokyo-Detroit Comparison. [Contrasting Concepts of Mate Selection; How Marriage Partners are Actually Chosen; After Marriage; Courtship; The Shape of Marriage in Japan and the USA, etc]
by Blood, Robert O., Jr
New York : The Free Press ; London : Collier-Macmillan Limited, 1967., 1967. Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing ; grey cloth with gold and blue lettering, in pictorial dustjacket ; a few nicks on the edges of dustjacket, but still retains sheen ; ownership stamps on front and back ep, with pocket, else FINE/VG
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€37.81
An Official Guide to Eastern Asia Trans-Continental Connections Between Europe and Asia Vol. IV CHINA
by (The Imperial Japanese Government Railways)
Tokyo: The Imperial Japanese Government Railways, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Text in English. Stout 12mo. Pp. Frontis. color illustration. With 23 maps, many folding; the large folding map covering all of China is housed in a pocket inside the rear board. Laden with black-and-white photos, both in text and dedicated plates. Glossary of words in English, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. Index. Endpaper maps. Bound in cinnamon-colored cloth stamped with gilt lettering on the front cover and...
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€1,370.54
The Kimono Mind
by Rudofsky, Bernard
New York City: Doubleday $ Company, 1965. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 283 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Gilt, Yellow Cloth Covers, Yellow Endpapers. No First Edition Statement, Unpriced Dust Jacket. Book Near Fine, Dust Jacket With Light Wear, And A 1" Squarish Chip At Top Of Front Panel.
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€37.81
