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réf. 5101WORLD 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
réf. 4696JAPAN. Diary. January 14 1950 to late 1954. Various places Philadelphia Japan Fort Meade. A lengthy diary of an American officer Lieutenant Louis T. Holtz who was stationed in Japan during the Korean War. It was written on dozens of sheets of loose-leaf notebook pages and it contains many black and white photographs with captions as well as newspaper and magazine cutouts and brochures from places he visited. The diary begins on January 14 1950 in Philadelphia and he discuses seeing shows and such but notes that “All in all this constituted a very enjoyable ten days of leave prior to going overseas. Sometimes I wish I could stay at home and live a normal routine life like everyone else. Other times I find myself eager to go…Almost two years ago who could forecast a war in Korea and the manner in which it would rip everyone’s life to shreds” He writes on January 2 1951 from Kurume Japan: “…perhaps 10 years from now it the diary will be of interest – if any of our civilization remains in 1961…I collapsed 28 June and spent 3 weeks in the hospital with excessive fatigue…I am the Officer-in-charge of the Kurume Office with an area of jurisdiction of approximately 1000 square miles…”. In April 1951 he mentions “I am very busy in my position as OIC Officer In Charge. It’s a full 7-day-a-week job…The Korean mess has everyone guessing as to eh future of the Far East…being the senior official in an area of jurisdiction of nearly 10000 square miles with dozens of mayors and police chiefs constantly catching my every word as official.”. The next couple dozen pages contain black and white photographs of protests in Japan and Holtz’s commentary about the images including “When people get hurt propaganda fills the air. The winner: the Kremlin – always!” “Demonstrations take planning and people. You can always be sure the plans were framed in red and the spectators sprinkled liberally with dye-hard communist stooges” “Demonstrations & rallies are usually fantastically well organized. And as often as not they can be unbelievably orderly” and “But orderly or violent you can always be sure there is a professional communist keeping the ‘sheep’ in line or arousing them to maximum fury.” In September 1951 Holtz writes from Sapporro “…life in the Armed Services has been a miserable one because of one bad experience after another…Kurume was one of the most pleasant and enjoyable assignments I ever held. The 45th was without doubt the most bitter and least enjoyable. I gave up so much for so little…”. Holtz was in California’s Camp Stoneman in November 1951: “…with all the hundreds of officers here not particularly anxious to go overseas and with several actually fighting the assignment I was amazed to find that someone eager to return is sidetracked so abruptly…”. He was back in Japan by December and then wrote a lengthy entry entitled “The Korean Story” starting with “Combat precautions make it mandatory that no diaries or personal papers be kept where they may fall into enemy hands” and he spends the next seven pages describing his experiences in the Korean War. Holtz wrote in part: “…Things had not gone well at all with Trubota’s unit prior to August 1951. After my arrival working results proved very satisfactory…Three other officers has also joined up in the interim between leaving Sapporo and going to Korea…When oriented in Tokyo they were told that the 45th Detachment would remain in Sapporo and they had already alerted their families to start to prepare to join them overseas…I had to fight Trubota in order to be able to fight the enemy. In one occasion I was reprimanded for going to a forward observation post and not being personally available to answer the telephone at my CP…” and the section finishes with a photograph of the USS Marine Lynx the ship that brought him home. The diary continues with his being stationed at Maryland’s Fort Meade. There are photographs of the mansion he occupied in Kyushu Japanese women at the beach his fellow soldiers after a bowling tournament etc. There are “Samples of United Nations propaganda leaflets dropped on North Korean positions early in the Korean conflict” that show Truman and MacArthur a December 7 1950 letter signed by the mayor of Kurume City Japan. The condition is fine to very fine. unknown books
1920réf. 44621Yokohama: 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
1910réf. 44085Kobe: Tamamura Photographic Studio / T. Takagi N.d. ca 1910. Oblong octavo 18cm x 26cm. Original silk-covered boards bouond with red silk cord; 19 colored collotype plates. Gift inscription from an N.L. Thacker on verso of title page dated 1914; child's ownership inscription on verso of final plate "Ermy Tharp Novato Cal" dated 1936. Rubbing and wear to board edges; internally clean and sound - a Very Good copy with all plates present. An attractive Meiji Era souvenir album with subtly hand-tinted collotype plates depicting a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony. One of several editions produced between 1906 and 1920; per the excellent bibliography of Tamamura's souvenir albums at ours would appear to be the Third Edition of 1910. Tamamura Photographic Studio / T. Takagi unknown books
réf. 3655a TLS. 2pg. 8 ¼” x 10”. 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 10”. 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
1961réf. 140944N. p.: The Japan P. E. N. Club The Kazui Press 1961. Octavo pp. 98; 8 printed wrappers. New enlarged edition. First published in 1957 this work and its 1964 supplement are divided into five sections: General Classical Literature Classical Theater Modern Literature Juvenile and Folk Literature. "The term 'literature' has been interpreted in the broadest possible sense" as the introduction notes including essays biographies and poetry. Nearly fine copies. #140944 The Japan P. E. N. Club [The Kazui Press unknown books
1918réf. 8490Chicago: 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
réf. 2060a TLS. 2pg. 8 ¼” x 10”. 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 KantÅ 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 10”. 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 KantÅ earthquake the letter is in very fine condition with light toning throughout and a few handwritten corrections not affecting legibility. unknown books
réf. 17162Girls 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
réf. 14062An original 19th century albumen photograph of two Japanese sumo wrestlers in starting position. 10.5" x 8.5" Mounted on split card. Minor loss of tone and contrast. Tastefully handpainted only on the cloths the wrestlers are wearing as was typical of 19th century Japanese images. This image has an artful minimalistic quality. Overall condition good. unknown books
réf. 13932Original 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
réf. 16646Photo Album Education Co-educational Primary School in Tokyo. Three-Wood Common Elementary School1941 during World War 2. Album of Gelatin silver print photos. Original textured paper wrapper. Album opens right to left. 6.9 x 9.75 in. Album cover is dated "March of the 15th year of the Showa Dynasty" in Japanese. 7 photographs measuring 4.5 x 6 in. Each class photo includes names of sitters printed on rice paper in Japanese. Of note in the 6 class photographs of school children and faculty are the mix of men and women as teachers and the mix of girls and boys as students. In the first image of the entire school boys and girls are lined up next to each other although they stand in rows of their own single-gender classes. Two class photos have additional small portraits of students who were absent for picture day. In Japan at this time education was not compulsory beyond primary school but childhood was regarded as an important time to foster learning growth and intellectual curiosity for both boys and girls. Very good condition. unknown books
1950réf. 34251Kohata 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. The illustrations are after paintings by Etsujin Kawahara; text by Seika Nishizaka; printed by Seizaburo Nishikawa. Hanano - Shiro - Sha unknown books
1860réf. 347451860. Two small broadsides each 9 x 11 3/4 inches. Previously folded. Moderate toning and dust soiling faint foxing at outer margins. Good plus. Japanese news sheet on foreigners. Two interesting Japanese Kawaraban woodblock news sheets documenting some of the foreigners who visited Japan's shores in the 1850s as the country opened up to the west. The first sheet is in four sections and titled "Western Products and Strange Things." It contains images of an English Captain a black sailor a microscope of Dutch style and a mummified body wrapped in sheets. The second shows a Captain's wife and her wolfhound dog an American Flag and a depiction of four Russian coins obverse and reverse and two other coins dated 1843 and 1854. unknown books
1980réf. 018134Chicago: 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
réf. 44211Japan and Western Medicine. Oranda jin Geka ryoji no zu Dutch Surgery in Nagasaki. Original pen ink and watercolor drawing on light brown-toned silk with 4 vertical lines of Japanese characters in the upper left corner. Japan: late 18th or early 19th century. 483 x 363 mm. mounted as a scroll at a modern date on light grey silk backed with paper with a half-round hanging rail with braided ribbon attached at the top and a suspension bar at the foot measuring 914 x 443 mm. overall; preserved in a custom-made wooden box. A few tiny pinholes in upper corners of image but fine with the coloring fresh and bright. This striking image showing an amputation carried out by a Dutch surgeon in Japan was most likely painted in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century during Japan's self-imposed period of national isolation. The hand-painted image is related but by no means identical to a Nagasaki woodblock print titled "Surgery by a Dutch Physician" one of many popular souvenir prints depicting scenes unique to Nagasaki which at the time was the sole point of contact between Japan and the outside world. See our reproduction of the print. It may be that our scroll is the original of the image; however it is also possible that both hand-painted and woodcut versions of the image were produced simultaneously. Western surgery came to Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via the Portuguese who in 1543 became the first Europeans to make direct contact with Japan and the Dutch who became the only European nation allowed to trade with Japan after Japan's expulsion of the Portuguese in 1639. Surgeons attached to the Dutch East India Company established practices at the island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay which led to the formation of several Japanese schools of surgery based on European methods. "This aspect of Western medicine known as K m -ry geka or ‘Surgery of the Red-Haired' has had a profound effect on the development of surgical practice in Japan" Van Gulik p. 37. Van Gulik "Dutch surgery in Japan" in Red-Hair Medicine: Dutch-Japanese Medical Relations ed. Beukers et al. pp. 37-50. . unknown books
1950réf. 21606Japan: 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
réf. 17275Japan Colorful and interesting group of cards varying sizes mostly 4" x 5 3/4" or thereabouts; advertizing the wares of companies in Shinjiku Nakano Jyoto Shiba Kyobashi Nihon Bashi Tokyo Yokohama Misaki Kuchinotsu Fushimi; travel clothing art tissues Suntory NCR Credit more; Isetan Mt. Fuji Nozawaya; artists Shigehiko Hiruma; mostly color one black and white card; some wear and rubbing to edges some postal cancellations a few notes; overall in good condition and an interesting ephemeral group depicting this Japanese advertizing venue of the time. Very Good. hardcover books
1810réf. 1654221810. 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
1939réf. 1652281939. PHOTOMONTAGE. Showa Juninendo Renshu Kantai Junko Kinego. Illustrated throughout with photomontages. With an illustrated map laid in. Oblong folio. 295 x 220 mm bound in publisher's green cloth. Tokyo: Teikoku Kaigunsha 1940. An elaborate and beautifully produced book commemorating the Japanese fleet's 1939 training exercises. As with many of this type of Japanese photobook there is a certain disconnect between great care lavished on the design from the decorative endpapers to the layout and the subject matter. Remains of staples in the gutter a very nice copy. OCLC records only 2 copies of which the one in the US is at Penn. hardcover books
1930réf. 1598251930. 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
1969réf. 9023814Tokyo: International House of Japan 1969. Paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original orange wraps stamped in blind. Chipped at the heel. Illustrated throughout in dualtone offset and multi-color letterpress with an original silkscreen p. 9 handmade by craftsmen at the Toppan Plant from Hiroshi Tanaka's prize-winning design. Price list from the exhibit and raffle laid in. Book design by Helmuth Holtz. International House of Japan paperback books
1965réf. 9023832Tokyo: 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. International House of Japan paperback books
1970réf. 9023815Tokyo: International House of Japan 1970. Paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Lightly rubbed edges and extremities. Previous owners name date and address in pencil on ffep. Illustrated throughout in black & white and color. Price list from the exhibit laid in. International House of Japan paperback books
1964réf. 9023848Tokyo: 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 . International House paperback books
