‎Japon‎

‎WORLD WAR II SOLDIER IN JAPAN‎

‎Just After The Official End Of World War II An Allied Soldier Writes Home From Japan: “Aomori Was Bombed And It Sure Was Smashed And Burned. Well We Have A Few Japs Working In This Camp And I Think As A Whole They Will Like Better From Now On That Ever Before. There Clothes Are All Patchesâ€‎

‎WORLD WAR II IN JAPAN. ALS. 2pgs. October 1 1945. Hirosaki Japan. An autograph letter signed “Dale†Christensen written home by an Allied serviceman stationed in Japan shortly after the official end of World War II. “Well I haven’t had a chance to write for some time. We made it up here O.K. but the ship sure was loaded. We landed at Aomori and this place is inland about 30 miles. We have had no trouble at all. We spent the first night at an airport and then moved to another Army camp the next day then the third bn came up and took over here. I was in on the big thing at this camp I came up with the first gen jeeps and saw the Jap General sign the camp over to us then to top it all off I was picked to take the Jap General to his home. He talked to me all the way but I didn’t know a thing he said. When he got out he saluted me. He seemed happy about the whole thing. The climate here is good and cool. We have a big mt right afore us and it looks just like Mt Fugiama sic. They say it sure gets cold here in the winter. The rice is just headed out and it is very pretty here but I hope I can soon come home…We are cleaning this camp up now it sure needed it. I don’t see how the Japs lived in it. Bugs and dirt all over. We sure are making a change in the looks of it. They say they might give each one of us a Jap Rifle and bayonet to take home I don’t think there is any thing to it. I sure would like to have one. They sure can grow the fruit and garden stuff here but they sure are way behind in the way to live. I think even behind the Philippines…The papulation sic of this place in 97000 and Aomori – 57000. Aomori was bombed and it sure was smashed and burned. Well we have a few Japs working in this camp and I think as a whole they will like better from now on that ever before. There clothes are all patches but they look healthy and happy. Well I will write more later. I hope we soon get a mail call. Tell Ann and the rest Hello. Everything is fine here. Write soon. Dale.†The letter is in fine condition. hardcover books‎

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‎JAPAN COTTON TRADING CO‎

‎Label Inspected by Japan Cotton Trading Co. Ltd. Yokohama‎

‎Yokohama: Japan Cotton Trading Co n.d. ca. 1920. Original illustrated inspection label 15.5x11cm. printed in four colors. Light soil contemporary ink notes to verso blank else Very Good and unused. Label to be affixed to Company-inspected export shipments depicting a gilt raptor flying over several continents and a small village. The Company was founded in 1892 by a conglomeration of twenty-five Osaka spinners and by 1912 cotton spinning would make up half of Japan's industrial output https://www.sojitz.com/history/en/company/nihon-menka/. Japan Cotton Trading Co unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 44621

‎YOKOHAMA JAPAN‎

‎Letters Of Life And Anti-Semitism From An American Abroad In Early 20th Century Japan‎

‎a TLS. 2pg. 8 ¼†x 10â€. July 15 1920. Yokohama Japan. A typed letter signed “Neil†laced with anti-Semitic sentiment. In part: “Went out calling last night with the bunch of fellows across the street. The host and his side partner are N.Y. Jews but sort of decent people. The wife is very nice but the husband is a regular East Sider. He is always talking about ‘not that I mind the expense of the house here but the servant is always telling about the money she needs for this and that and I can’t see where it goes to.’ You know just about what kind of a guy he is better than I do no doubt and you haven’t seen him. Anyway it was sort of a pleasant evening as he left the States in March and brought a lot of the new songs with him. He is a very good piano player and I had a fine time listening to him. One of the songs he played and ‘tried to sing’ just like John was ‘Pal of Mine’ you know how nice it was in comparison to the real singer and this Jew did the same stunt of turning to his wife too as John does to his wife when she sits up in the box. The husband was just a regular N.Y. smart alex Jew.†Typed on letterhead from Yokohama’s Grand Hotel which famously burned down as a result of the devastating 1923 Great Kanto earthquake the letter is in very fine condition with light toning throughout and a few handwritten corrections not affecting legibility. b TLS. 3pg. 8 ¼†x 10â€. July 19 1920. Yokohama Japan. A typed letter signed “Neil†regarding work and life as an American abroad in early 20th century Japan. In part: “There isn’t much doing as for excitement but just hang around and do nothing. I really think I am gaining weight on the job. I met a fellow here who deals in all sorts of dress goods from Boston and I am getting on the right side of him as he gets all his stuff from here and I may be able to get some things for you people wholesale when you need them. He is one of us you get me being from Boston and a very fine chap. Eleanor will have nothing on me then getting things wholesale. About the only thing we need now wholesale is to get a bank to give us more money on our checks when we cash in. I am thinking of buying a kimono for Connors in the office for his wife as they are married in the Fall. He is a nice fellow and I thought for his trouble in calling up and the like I would bring him back one. I am not sure about it as yet but I think I will.†Typed on letterhead from Yokohama’s Grand Hotel which famously burned down as a result of the devastating 1923 Great Kanto earthquake the letter is in very fine condition with light toning throughout and a few handwritten corrections not affecting legibility. unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 3655

‎JAPAN Katayama Sen‎

‎The Labor Movement in Japan‎

‎Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1918. First Edition. 12mo; deep yellow cloth boards; 147pp. Mild overall soil to boards spine cloth a trifle darkened still perfectly legible; faint crease to endpaper; Very Good. Katayama 1859-1933 was born in Japan emigrated to the United States in the 1880s and converted to socialism while a divinity student at Yale in 1894. He was a founding member of both the U.S. and Japanese Communist parties. This is one of the scarcer Kerr publications of the period. Charles H. Kerr unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 8490

‎Girls Education Japan‎

‎Photo Album of Girl Students in Japan c. 1926‎

‎Girls Education Japan Photograph album from a girl student in Japan c. 1926. Filled with 78 original silver gelatin print photographs of classmates school activities and social outings. Original cloth and red boards. 10 x 7.5 in. "Photo Album" printed on front cover. Pasted label on the final page with some information on the original owner dated 1926. Photographs of various small sizes from 1.75 x 2.5 inches to 3 x 5". Many images are school portraits of teenage girls in their matching uniforms posing either individually in pairs or small groups. Occasional photographs of teenage boys as well including one with the sitter dressed in a samurai outfit. Photos of a field day with outdoor footraces marches and performances. A few later photographs of older young women in civilian clothes posing by a river and strolling in a park together. These may be images of some of the younger students years later as adults. Most of the images show figures in Western styles clothes although 2 photographs show women dressed up in kimonos. Images lack captions but there is an autograph on one photograph. Some soiling to cover and 8 sheets of album are detached from spine. Unique images are in very good condition. unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 17162

‎JAPAN PHOTO‎

‎Original 1880s Photograph of The Festival of Lanterns at Yokohama‎

‎Original 19th Century Hand colored photograph of the Festival of Lanterns at Yokohama Japan. The photograph measures 8"x10" and is matted to 10-1/2"x13". Lower right hand corner label reads "A 264 Festival Lanterns at Bentendori Yokohama." Festival lanterns cheer up the business district of Bentendori 2-chome and 3-chome in Yokohama. During the Meiji Period this was Yokohama's premier shopping street. Foreign visitors came here to buy porcelain curios ivory silk and photographs. The photographer of this very image Kimbei Kusakabe actually had a studio on this street between 1881 and 1889. Unfortunately the exotic amalgamation of Japan and the Western world that existed on Bentendori was forever destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Photographs such as this are all that is left of a bygone era. In very good condition. unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 13932

‎JAPAN‎

‎Modern Japanese Art of Flower Arrangements. Vol. V.‎

‎Kohata Japan: Hanano - Shiro - Sha 1950. Oblong folio. 10 1/8 x 14 1/4 inches. Printed tissue covers over vivid paintings. Foreword 12 pages of text and 24 full page plates each with discussion and instruction on the arrangements. Publisher's silk paper label on upper cover.<br/> <br/>The illustrations are after paintings by Etsujin Kawahara; text by Seika Nishizaka; printed by Seizaburo Nishikawa. Hanano - Shiro - Sha unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 34251

‎Japan America Society of Chicago‎

‎The Japan America Society of Chicago: The First Fifty Years‎

‎Chicago: Japan America Society of Chicago 1980. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. viii 57 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minor shelfwear including a small bump to one corner. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Japan America Society of Chicago Hardcover books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 018134

‎Japan Art 20th Century Katsutaro Furuya.‎

‎Circa 1950s Group of 6 Original Works of Art Signed By Katsutaro Furuya Including Watercolors and Black and White Pen & Ink Brush‎

‎Japan: Artist Published 1950. Group includes two country landscape scenes in color both signed lower left in black ink both approx. 9" x 13"; with 2 ink and wash heightened and accented with white paint winter scenes approx. 10" x 14 1/2" one signed lower right; and 2 ink washes waterside scenes 10" x 14 1/4" one signed lower left. Not dated and circa 1950s; all are laid-down on to paper backers. Light wear; one of the wash pieces with a thin line-scrape; the paper backers with wear and wrinkling in margins creasing couple short tears. The artworks are in very good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Artist Published Paperback books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 21606

‎JAPAN‎

‎Japanese Fabric Samples‎

‎1810. JAPAN. Japanese Fabric Samples. 30 Samples mounted in an album. Oblong 4to. 255 x 175 mm bound in contemporary wrappers in a new chitsu case. NP. ND. A handsome collection of early twentieth century Japanese fabric samples each measuring approximately 170 X 125mm. unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 165422

‎JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN; JAPAN‎

‎Advertising Labels.‎

‎1930. JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN. A Collection of approximately 200 labels for food and drink products. Various sizes mounted in an album. Small folio 305 x 225mm bound in pale blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. NP. ND. Japan 1930's. An eclectic collection of Japanese food and drink labels from the first quarter of the twentieth century. Fruits vegetables spirits candies canned meats and fishes are all represented on colourful labels featuring combined western and Japanese design sensibilities. They are neatly tipped into an accordion style album of thick pale blue paper and mostly remain in fine condition. unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 159825

‎International House of Japan‎

‎The College Women's Association of Japan Presents Tenth Annual Exhibition‎

‎Tokyo: International House of Japan 1965. Paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated paper wraps over printed wraps. Illustrated throughout in dualtone offset and full color plates tipped in. Errata tipped in. <br/><br/> International House of Japan paperback books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 9023832

‎College Women's Association of Japan‎

‎The College Women's Association of Japan Presents: Ninth Annual Exhibition of Japanese Prints‎

‎Tokyo: International House 1964. Paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original paper covered wraps. With 16 black & white illustrations throughout 4 color plates tipped in . <br/><br/> International House paperback books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 9023848

‎Japan‎

‎Japan in Color Tokyo First Series Fuji Color Slide‎

‎Tokyo Japan: Fujicolor Photo Co. Ltd. Short printed text page in Japanese & English; folowed by 10 original Fuji color slides of Tokyo in a custom holder; including: Twin Bridges of the Imperial Palace; Street cars run from Hibiya Park; the Ginza cross roads; Kabuki Theatre; Meiji Shrine; Yasukuni Shrine; Tokyo Port; Asakusa Kwannon; Asakusa Amusement Center; Kokugikan at Kuramae sumo wrestling scene; tipped-in at back is the series list; no date but circa 1950s; color paste-down illustration on cover; light wear; very good condition interesting photographic Japan travel history. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Fujicolor Photo Co. Ltd. Hardcover books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 16830

‎Japan‎

‎NICHIBEI SHUKO TSUSHO JOYAKU. TREATIES OF AMITY AND COMMERCE‎

‎Japan 1858. Five volumes. 58; 58; 54; 58; 58pp. Original stiff textured tan wrappers stitched as issued each with printed paper title label. Some minor shelf wear and dust soiling. Very good. An attractive set of the "Ansei Five-Power Treaties" the formal diplomatic engagements between Japan and the United States United Kingdom France Russia and the Netherlands ending Japan's 250 years of seclusion and opening its ports to worldwide commercial trade so named for their signing in the fifth year of the Ansei era. The first treaty also known as the Harris Treaty was signed by the U.S. on the deck of the USS "Powhatan" in Edo now Tokyo Bay on July 29 1858. It opened the ports of of Shimoda Hakodate Kanagawa and Nagasaki to foreign trade effective July 4 1859 and then Niigata and Hyogo on January 1 1860 and January 1 1863 respectively. In addition to extensive trade and consular provisions the treaty also established the rights of U.S. citizens to reside permanently lease property purchase real estate and construct residences and warehouses; established a system of extraterritoriality whereby U.S. residents were subject only to the laws of their own consular courts and not the Japanese legal system; and established freedom of religious expression and the right to construct churches to serve the needs of U.S. residents within the confines of designated foreign settlements. The treaty followed the Convention of Kanagawa signed under threat of force in 1854 after Commodore Matthew Perry's aggressive visits to the Shogunate in 1853 and 1854. The Convention had granted coaling rights for U.S. ships and allowed for an American consul in Shimoda but Perry left the more important trading negotiations to Townsend Harris New York businessman and eventually the first U.S. Consul General to Japan. <br> <br> Each of the five volumes details the negotiations between Japan and a specific foreign power. These other accords are similar and duly inspired by the U.S. treaty; each nation forced Japan to grant the same "favored nation" provisions they had granted to the U.S. The Dutch already had several treaties with Japan; they were the only Western power to retain trade relations with Japan after the final expulsion of Europeans in 1638 and had been advising and supplying the Japanese navy since 1853. However once the U.S. had sealed its "Treaty of Amity" the Dutch quickly revised theirs to match on August 18 1858; Russia followed on August 19; Lord Elgin signed for Britain on August 26; and Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros commander of the French expedition in China signed for France on October 9 1858. Subsequent Japanese and Chinese scholars refer to these treaties and subsequent agreements as the "unequal treaties" as none of the provisions were ever reciprocated. <br> <br> This set is uncommon. We found only one record for another incomplete set at auction. This is the first time we have handled this title. unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : WRCAM52130A

‎Perry Japan Expedition: Black Ship Scroll‎

‎NANPO GUEN. VISIT TO SHIMODA‎

‎N.p. but probably Tokyo 1856. Ink and watercolor on twenty-five linen- mounted rice paper panels joined into a scroll measuring approximately 10 1/2 inches x 29 1/2 feet. Mounted on a wooden roller with silk tie housed in a custom balsa wood box. Intermittent creasing fairly regular small chips to bottom edge sometimes costing a bit of the image area. Very good. An incredible informative and beautifully rendered "Black Ship Scroll" giving a thirty- foot long visual account of the visit of Commodore Perry's U.S. naval squadron to Shimoda in the wake of the signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa. It is an awe-inspiring artifact of a momentous event in American and Japanese history and a brilliant work of art. <br> <br> Perry's 1854 arrival in the remote port of Shimoda aroused great curiosity and was recorded both by anonymous artisans as well as real artists the latter being the case for the present scroll. One of Perry's interpreters S. Wells Williams reported seeing similar scrolls depicting the naval visit just a few weeks after they anchored. He wrote in his account of the visit: "A pictorial representation of our squadron and description annexed and an account of the war between England and China were seen today by officers." Williams goes on the remark that it was forbidden to sell these scrolls to Americans and in fact being a non- trading closed society Japanese officials discouraged personal purchases of any kind by U.S. personnel. <br> <br> Evident in the present scroll is the Japanese fascination with American military technology. Perry's official account made note of the Japanese being insatiably inquisitive when invited on board: "When visiting the ship the mandarins and their attendants were never at rest: but went about peering into every nook and corner peeping into the muzzles of the guns.They were not contented to merely observing with their eyes but were constantly taking out their writing materials their mulberry bark paper." <br> <br> The present scroll depicts the deck and equipment details of one of Perry's frigate steamers as well as handsome harbor scenes of the numerous ships at anchor including a moonlight view brilliantly-colored American flags flying from the masts of the ships undulating coastlines maps of the locations of Perry's ships the narrative of their travel from Edo Bay a portrait of Commodore Perry and two of his interpreters and an account of naval gun salutes and the burial of a sailor with a rendering of his tombstone. Also shown is a small American military band large portraits of several of Perry's ships a detail of an American landing party departing one of the imposing Black Ships and much more. On the whole the expert illustrations give not only the details of Perry his men ships and their armaments but a sense of the level to which the American squadron impressed the Japanese. Accomplished by an artist that would almost certainly have had firsthand knowledge of the visit of the American squadron it is a far more artistically-polished memorial of Perry's extraordinary visit than many of the more folk-art type scrolls that make up the majority of surviving examples. <br> <br> Perry's sudden arrival near the entrance to Tokyo Bay at Uraga on July 8 1853 with two sloops and two paddle-steamer battleships carrying letters and gifts to deliver to the Emperor threw the Japanese authorities into a tailspin. The reports went back to the Emperor who immediately took ill presumably fearing an invasion. For several days there was a stand-off the smaller Japanese vessels amassing around the American vessels one of which had ninety-two cannons. Local warlord families took up arms all around the Bay and made promises of men for the defense of Edo. For five days the stand-off continued and Perry stayed in his cabin and let it be known he had a letter from President Fillmore to deliver to the Emperor and only the Emperor or his emissary could receive it. The Japanese first threatened him then tried to bribe him to leave and go to Nagasaki to complete his mission. Perry stood firm and ignored the Japanese demands. <br> <br> Perry sent out smaller boats to start surveying the area and the Japanese stood aside wondering if the cannon would strike them. On July 14 a hastily erected tent was put up on the shore of the bay and two sons of the Emperor Princes Ido and Toda came down by Imperial barge from Edo and sat in the tent to receive the letters. Perry arrived with his troops his marching band playing flags flying. He formally delivered the letters and said he would be back in a year for an answer to the President's call for a trade treaty with Japan protection for shipwrecked sailors and the establishment of refueling stations for American ships in the Western Pacific. The Japanese asked Perry to leave quickly but he stayed anchored for a further three days then spent some time doing surveys of other parts of Edo Bay returning via Okinawa to winter at the American station in Hong Kong. <br> <br> Perry returned the following February with a larger flotilla strengthened by newly- completed battleship steamers sent out from the United States. The second meeting took place at Yokohama from February to June 1854 where Perry insisted that negotiations begin and at that time there was an exchange of diplomatic gifts. A provisional treaty was signed in 1854 but the full trading treaty was not completed until 1858 after Townsend Harris came to Japan as U.S. Consul and set about finalizing the negotiations. <br> <br> Perry's return in 1854 with a much more substantial force provoked the same curiosity and trepidation among the Japanese populace as his first visit if not more so and it is this second visit that is captured in the present scroll. The Americans arrived by steam frigates the "black ships of evil men" as well as under sail with their canons and howitzers conspicuous. This second visit to Edo Bay was a purposeful display of the United States' superior military force to impress an essentially feudal society - all the better for Perry to encourage the signing of a treaty allowing American whalers to use the islands as a resupply outpost of America's burgeoning economic empire and Pacific expansion. <br> <br> Following the signing of the Treaty of Kanagawa on March 31 1854 Perry visited the two ports named as open to American ships Shimoda and Hakodate. Americans were also allowed to travel inland from these ports to a proscribed distance of seven ri approximately seventeen miles. Officers were allowed onshore and the manners appearance and customs of the Americans were of nearly insatiable interest to the inhabitants of these remote fishing villages. This was the first interaction common Japanese citizens had with Westerners. <br> <br> The present scroll descends from the Perry family specifically Calbraith Perry Rodgers famed aviator and Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's great-grandnephew. The scroll is accompanied by a later typed transcription of an 1858 account of Commodore Perry's life by R.S. Rodgers. <br> <br> One of the more impressive examples of a Black Ship Scroll documenting Perry's second interaction with the Japanese rulers and people executed by an accomplished Japanese artist and descended through the Perry family. unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : WRCAM55468

‎Perry Expedition: Japan‎

‎THREE CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNTS OF THE ARRIVAL OF COMMODORE PERRY IN JAPAN INCLUDING A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT REPORT OF EVENTS‎

‎Edo 1853. 31; 31; 61pp. plus a loose sheet. Original paper wrappers stitched. Contemporary manuscript annotations in red ink in one volume. Scattered worming heavy in places. Some dampstaining and dust soiling. About very good. Three fascinating Japanese manuscript accounts of the arrival of Commodore Perry to Japan in 1853. Then first URAGA KUROTONE NI KANSARU or "The Black Ship Arriving in Uraga" comprises the official government report of events when Perry steamed into Uraga Bay. This volume contains contemporary edits to the text in red ink. The second account of Perry's arrival EDO URAGA BIKOKU FUNE TORAI IKKEN or "Arrival of the Ships at Uraga" contains a double-page manuscript sketch of the coastline of Uraga Bay together with the disposition of Perry's ships. The final volume consists of a third manuscript entitled GASSHUKKO SHOKAN WAGE UTSUSHI a copy of the report on the Perry arrival prepared by Abe Masahiro Chief Senior Councillor in the Toguwara Shogunate which includes translations of the letters from Fillmore and Perry delivered by Perry on July 8 1853. Also with a single manuscript sheet that provides a description of Perry's ship. <br> <br> Vital contemporary manuscript accounts of this monumental transformation in Japanese foreign relations from significant Japanese participants in events. unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : WRCAM53554

‎Perry Japan Expedition‎

‎URAGA NO OMOKAGE SITUATION IN URAGA‎

‎Uraga Bay Japan 1853. Pen and ink manuscript scroll on thick mulberry paper in Japanese 10 1/2 x 125 inches. Mounted on a wooden roller and with a small contemporary cloth extension panel to the scroll cotton tie. Manuscript backed on thick paper a few worm holes at upper margin of the final panel occasional brown stain at upper margins of first few panels a few tiny holes some old creases. Very good. A Japanese manuscript depiction showing the parade of Commodore Matthew Perry and his forces on the shore at Uraga Bay to visit the Japanese Princes on July 14 1853. An important piece of American naval and diplomatic history and a rare survival of a Japanese "Black Ship" Scroll for the 1853 arrival of Perry this is one of only a handful to have survived. <br> <br> Perry's sudden arrival near the entrance to Tokyo Bay at Uraga on July 8 1853 with two sloops and two paddle-steamer battleships carrying letters and gifts to deliver to the Emperor threw the Japanese authorities into a tailspin. The reports went back to the Emperor who immediately took ill presumably fearing an invasion. For several days there was a stand-off the smaller Japanese vessels amassing around the American vessels one of which had ninety-two cannons. Local warlord families took up arms all around the Bay and made promises of men for the defense of Edo. For five days the stand-off continued and Perry stayed in his cabin and let it be known he had a letter from President Fillmore to deliver to the Emperor and only the Emperor or his emissary could receive it. The Japanese first threatened him then tried to bribe him to leave and go to Nagasaki to complete his mission. Perry stood firm and ignored the Japanese demands. <br> <br> Perry sent out smaller boats to start surveying the area and the Japanese stood aside wondering if the cannon would strike them. On July 14 a hastily erected tent was put up on the shore of the bay and two sons of the Emperor Princes Ido and Toda came down by Imperial barge from Edo and sat in the tent to receive the letters. Perry arrived with his troops his marching band playing the Stars and Stripes flags flying. He formally delivered the letters and said he would be back in a year for an answer to the President's call for a trade treaty with Japan protection for shipwrecked sailors and the establishment of refueling stations for American ships in the Western Pacific. The Japanese asked him to leave quickly but he stayed anchored for a further three days then spent some time doing surveys of other parts of Edo Bay returning via Okinawa to winter at the American station in Hong Kong. He returned the following February with a larger flotilla strengthened by newly- completed battleship steamers sent out from the States. The second meeting took place at Yokohama from February to June 1854 where Perry insisted that negotiations begin and at that time there was an exchange of diplomatic gifts. A provisional treaty was signed in 1854 but the full trading treaty was not completed until 1858 after Townsend Harris came to Japan as U.S. Consul and set about finalizing the negotiations. <br> <br> The artist of this piece certainly documented the action well. It begins with a panel showing an American officer and three soldiers from the ship continues with eight sketches of hats seven instruments of the band and a naval sword two small barges that brought the crew and troops to the shore a detailed annotated sketch of the flagship Susquehanna followed by the procession of the 300 Americans from the shore to the receiving tents the Stars and Stripes waving and including the band and a similar sketch of the Japanese procession with clan banners a sketch of the receiving area with a parade ground and two tents and a final view of Uraga Bay with the four American ships at anchor and the landing place on the shoreline. <br> <br> While the census for the scrolls and scroll fragments depicting Perry's second arrival in 1854 number at least twenty in institutional hands for the 1853 arrival of Perry we locate only one - a ten-foot watercolor scroll in the British Museum for which this is either a precursor or a contemporary near- copy. A close comparison with the British Museum scroll has yet to be accomplished but there are textual differences in some of the captions and it appears from the sketchy monochrome nature and uncolored state of this scroll that it is more likely a provisional sketch done from observation by a Japanese artist who attended the event rather than a contemporary finished scroll. It is likely that after the meeting with Perry the warlord attendees would have been presented with a finished watercolor scroll. This scroll may well be the original provisional version of that finished sketch. <br> <br> An extraordinarily rare and important "Black Ship" Japanese scroll. hardcover books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : WRCAM52129

‎Japan: Photographica‎

‎REMINISCENCES OF KYUSHU cover title‎

‎Various locations in Japan 1900. Ten leaves containing eighty photographs each 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black three- quarter morocco and cloth. Hinges and corners lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing primarily to mounts and not images. Prints sharp and clear. Very good. Eighty attractive images of turn-of-the- century Japan as seen through a Western lens. Evidently narrating a trip in Japan each photograph is captioned in English usually stating location which include Kagoshima the Kuma River Kumamoto Nakatshu Fukuoka Nagasaki and Isahaya. While most of the images show landscapes and the scenery of the area many of them include local people - at temple and shrines in city streets going about every day life. Of particular interest are a photograph of a woodcutter's hut with the family in the foreground a fortuneteller plying his trade a group of young men washing vegetables a view of Suizenji Park a Buddhist Temple threshing rice the sulphur springs at Nagasaki and various scenes in native villages. A nice collection of images with the bookplate of New Zealand photo-historian Frederic Hardwicke Knight. hardcover books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : WRCAM45650

‎JAPAN Publications‎

‎Books of Japan: 1963-1964‎

‎Japan: Japan Publications Trading Co. Very Good. N.D. Hardcover. Spots on cover otherwise good . Japan Publications Trading Co. hardcover books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 27503

‎Japan Typography Association editor‎

‎APPLIED TYPOGRAPHY 2 = 日本タイãƒã‚°ãƒ©ãƒ•ã‚£å¹´é‘‘‎

‎Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing Co 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto; First edition; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white with gold print; DJ is clean and bright; Boards in glossy white paper clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Text in Japanese and English; 247 pages illustrated color. <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1342384. FP New Rockville Stock. Graphic-sha Publishing Co hardcover books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 1342384 ISBN : 4766106970 9784766106978

‎International House of Japan Library.‎

‎Modern Japanese Literature in Translation: A Bibliography.‎

‎NY & San Francisco: Kodansha International 1979. First US edition. 311 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. NY & San Francisco: Kodansha International unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 40698

‎Japan Sladen Douglas‎

‎Queer Things about Japan‎

‎London: Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd 1904. Second Impression. Color frontispiece 6 color plates and 30 iillustrations after Hokusai. 443pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters modern mottled brown calf and marble boards red title label. Fine. Second Impression. Color frontispiece 6 color plates and 30 iillustrations after Hokusai. 443pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Anthony Treherne & Co., Ltd unknown books‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 316723

‎Japan Browne G. Waldo‎

‎Japan The Place and the People‎

‎Boston: Dana Estes 1904. Illustrated with over 300 coloured plates and half tones. 438pp. 4to. Bound in modern half brown calf and marbled boards. Fine. Illustrated with over 300 coloured plates and half tones. 438pp. 4to. Dana Estes unknown books‎

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‎Japan‎

‎W. Straker's Ltd. Diary for 1907‎

‎London: Strker 1907. With 33 tipped in photographs with tipped "Farewell to the "Gneisenau" broadside small broadside of "Coronation of H.M.King George V printed in Yokohama 22nd June 1911.". 8vo. Black and blue cloth with button on cover from Captain of Gneisenau. With 33 tipped in photographs with tipped "Farewell to the "Gneisenau" broadside small broadside of "Coronation of H.M.King George V printed in Yokohama 22nd June 1911.". 8vo. Filled in with an English family's trip to Japan. Started in London on December 11 and boarded the Ship Gneisenau on the morning of the 12th reached Singapore Jan. 11 arrived Nagasaki Jan. 23. Strker unknown books‎

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