[Jazz - Japan]ABAA
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1938réf. 33168Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company 1938. Very Good. Tokyo: Symphony Publishing Company 1938. Presumed First Edition. 12mo 15.5 cm; publisher's pictorial yellow and orange card wrappers lettered in black; 1923pp.; brief illus. sheet music throughout. Moderate wear and dust-soiled to wrappers small loss mid-spine briefly affecting text textblock a bit browned and foxed else Very Good bright and sound. Evidently unrecorded Japanese guide to popular jazz music the first half almost entirely in Japanese the latter half bilingual primarily in Japanese and English. Includes the music for classics by Jerome Kern like "Ol' Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"; Romberg and Hammerstein's "Lover Come Back To Me"; Moises Simons' Cuban rumba foxtrot "The Peanut Vendor"; instantly recognizable classics like "Blue Moon" and "La Cucaracha"; and songs by Mabel Wayne and Irving Berlin. The compilation also includes songs in Spanish French and German accompanied by its Japanese translation. A fascinating and beautiful little guide documenting the rise in popularity of Jazz music in Japan and Tokyo in particular issued between the devastating earthquake of 1923 and the beginning of World War II. The import of Jazz to Japan was first heralded with the rise in trans-Pacific luxury liners. A Japanese version of "My Blue Heaven" reproduced here became available as early as the 1920s and the popular 1929 Japanese film "Tokyo March" employed Jazz in its soundtrack. The genre was popular enough that Columbia and Victor records formed subsidiary companies in Japan. The popularity of jazz in Japan continues to this day touted by one of the country's most prominent public and literary figures Haruki Murakami who first opened his Jazz club right out of college after falling in love with the genre at an Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers show in Kobe in 1964. No copies of this work located in OCLC as of June 2025. References: "How Japan Came To Love Jazz" online interview with historian E. Taylor Atkins author of "Blue Nippon" "Jazz Messenger" by Haruki Murakami available online. Symphony Publishing Company unknown books
1860réf. 34745Edo 1860. Two woodblock-printed Kawaraban broadsides on Japanese paper each 9 x 11 5/8 inches. Two late Edo Kawaraban broadsides recording foreign people objects coinage dress and material culture at the moment of Japan's accelerated contact with Europe and America. These two Kawaraban belong to the popular printed culture that developed around Japan's encounter with foreign powers in the 1850s and early 1860s. Produced for circulation beyond official channels such broadsides translated diplomatic and commercial contact into a form legible to a broad Japanese readership combining image caption anecdote and report. Their interest lies in the way they classify the foreign world through visible particulars: clothing physiognomy tools coins flags animals weapons and curiosities. The first broadside is arranged in four compartments under a title describing Western products and curiosities. It includes figures identified as foreign visitors or crewmen among them an English captain and a Black sailor together with a Dutch-style optical instrument and a draped clay or stone figure possibly a classical statue. The second broadside combines a portrait of a captain's wife with her dog a depiction of a foreign flag and examples of foreign coins shown obverse and reverse including Russian coinage and coins dated 1843 and 1854. Here the focus is less on a single event than on the material signs by which foreign nations could be distinguished. The woman's dress the dog the flag and the coins are presented as objects of information and curiosity evidence of a public appetite for visual knowledge about the peoples then appearing in Japanese ports. Together the broadsides show how Kawaraban helped mediate the experience of opening Japan to foreign trade and diplomacy. Their compact format and direct visual language made them effective vehicles for reporting and interpreting the unfamiliar preserving a popular Japanese response to the presence of Westerners at a moment of rapid political and cultural change. unknown books
1822réf. ST20877London: Printed for R. Ackermann 1822. First English Edition. 300 x 235 mm. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2". xvi 325 1 pp.Translated by Frederic Shoberl. Imposing contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco gilt covers with filigree frame with densely massed scrolling fleurons raised bands spine gilt in compartments with radiating viny scrolls surrounded by leaves and annular dots marbled endleaves all edges gilt. WITH 13 HAND-COLORED PLATES in etching and aquatint many after Japanese artworks one folding. Bookplate removed from front flyleaf. Bookseller's ticket of J. L. Thompson & Co Kobe Japan on front pastedown. Abbey Travel 557; Tooley 489; Martin Hardie "English Coloured Books" pp. 113-14. See also E. F. Strange "Japanese Illustration" pp. xxiii-xxiv. Spine and fore-edge of upper board slightly darkened a few minute flakes to lowest spine compartment but the binding extremely well preserved with very lustrous boards. Final 10 leaves slightly creased one repaired marginal tear but still A FINE COPY INTERNALLY exceptionally bright smooth and entirely fresh and clean. This generously proportioned production illustrated with 13 vibrant colored plates is a rare European account of Japan during the period in which the country was "closed" to the west offered here in its first English edition. Originally published in French in 1820 "Illustrations of Japan" is comprised of a history and description of the Tokugawa shogunate which Titsingh had translated from the Japanese plus Titsingh's own observations on the language customs and ceremonies of the Japanese people. The present English edition is accompanied by plates in etching and aquatint enhanced with hand coloring. Our author Dutch diplomat Isaac Titsingh 1745-1812 spent 14 years in Nagasaki for the Dutch East India company and between 1779-84 he served as trade director-cum-ambassador travelling to Edo now Tokyo for audiences with the shogun and other high officials in the shogunate. Unlike most of his Western contemporaries Titsingh was open-minded and curious about the people he encountered engaging with their art and culture; in fact art historian and Victoria & Albert Museum keeper Edward F. Strange tells us that Titsingh is the earliest known European collector of Japanese prints of which a number appear in the present volume. Our publisher Rudolph Ackermann 1764-1834 made his living issuing sumptuously illustrated books such as the present volume and was an early adopter of color aquatint and lithography technologies; Hardie writes that he was "the great presiding genius before whose magic wand so many pictorial books sprang into existence." In very attractive period morocco this is a particularly appealing copy of the work free of the foxing and offsetting that often plague copies of this and other large-format color illustrated books. Printed for R. Ackermann unknown books
1972réf. 108669Tokyo:: Yoshinobu Kawasaki / Seibundo Shinkosha Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. Text is in Japanese. Color photographs throughout. First edition. Fine in a fine slipcase. Includes the 89 page booklet with the English translations by Yuji Yoshimura - fine in oversize stapled wraps. Together housed in the publisher's original cardboard box. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 352 pages . Yoshinobu Kawasaki / Seibundo Shinkosha Publishing, hardcover books
1933réf. 44204Tokyo: Japanese Government Railways 1933. Illustrated paper wrappers. Very good minor wear and tear along edges most prevalent on spine inked inscription on first leaf faint marginal soiling and creasing. Unpaged 52 pp. Illus. with 1 color map and b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Japanese Government Railways unknown books
1941réf. 43024Japan 1941. Loose in a black clamshell box. Very good copies with slight curl; some with small edge or corner tears; 23 have the name of the film or featured actors/actresses rubber-stamped on the back in Japanese. 47 b/w photos. Approximately 6 x 4 inches. One duplicate. Most are group scenes from dramas a few portraits a few without characters; subject matter ranges from early historical dramas to contemporary scenes to the war and its effects. The dates have been verified on a few and all fall during the years of the Pacific War including Tadashi Imai's Tanjiko-mura 1940 "Hanagoyomi hasshojin" 1940 based on the 19th century novel "Josei hongan" 1940 made in the same year as the novel by Kan Kikuchi Yasuki Chiba's "Kuso buraku" 1939. The balance of the stills appear to date within approximately the same period. unknown books
1900réf. 40351Weissenburg im Elsas: Druck u. Verlag v. C. Burckardt's Nachf 1900. A very good copy light toning colors vibrant. 1 sheet. Chromolithograph. 33.5 x 43 cm 13 1/4 x 17 inches. Template for the construction of a Japanese infantry cap on thin cardboard. Many such military related items were printed during the German Imperial period. C. Burckhardt Nachfolger was a successor firm to Imagerie Wentzel and one of the largest producers of paper lithographic items. Druck u. Verlag v. C. Burckardt's Nachf unknown books
1960réf. 34948New York: Information Office Consulate General of Japan 1960. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy. Unpaged 24 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and reproductions. Obl. 8vo. Information Office, Consulate General of Japan unknown books
1952réf. 32518n.p.: n.p. 1952. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Annotations on rear wrapper else very good. 8 pp. 8vo. n.p. unknown books
1987réf. 32154New York: Japan Society 1987. First edition. Stiff paper wrappers. A fine copy. 81 pp. Illus. with 15color & 16 b/w plates. 4to. Exhibition letter laid in loose. Issued in conjnction with the May 12-June 28 1987 exhibition. Two articles plates artists' biographies. Japan Society unknown books
1938réf. 32594Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan 1938. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good clean copy with edgewear. 4 pp. 8vo. [Asiatic Society of Japan] unknown books
1948réf. 32588Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau 1948. First edition. Paper covered boards. Spine ends chipped and torn boards soiled a good copy. Unpaged 48 pp. Illus. with 1 color & 43 b/w photos. Folio. Contestants and winners names tipped in to rear. Japan Travel Bureau hardcover books
1963réf. 31893Tokyo: Japan Ukiyo-E Society 1963. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. Chip at the head of the spine else a very good copy. 30 52 98 pp. Illus. with 6 color plates 321 b/w reproductions. Sm. 4to. Shigeo Miyao ed. Errata slip tipped in. Catalogue of 321 prints in English and Japanese. 8 pages of ads. Glossary. Japan Ukiyo-E Society unknown books
1938réf. 32354Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan 1938. First edition. Cloth. Faint stain to lower edge of boards and preliminaries else a very good copy leaves crisp and clean binding tight. 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 Galen M. Fisher. Asiatic Society of Japan hardcover books
1912réf. 32356London: Japan Society 1912. First edition. Paper wrappers. Spine ends and front wrapper with small chips frnt wrapper with some soiling and a small sticker thin stain along fore edge throughout binding tight good or better. 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 by Arthur Diosy; and The Kano School of Painting by Stewart Dick. Japan Society unknown books
1913réf. 32350Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan 1913. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy with minor edgewear and rear hinge starting. vii 193 pp. 8vo. Contains just the one article "Modern Japanese Literature" by Walter Dening. Asiatic Society of Japan hardcover books
1990réf. 31995Tokyo: Japan Society 1990. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket else as new. 127 pp. Illus. with 42 color & b/w reproductions b/w drawings. 4to. Published in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name at the Japan Society Gallery in 1990. Limited to 2000 copies. Essays plus detailed discussions of 42 objects. Japan Society hardcover books
1953réf. 32361Tokyo: Nihon Kotsu Kosha 1953. Cloth. A good copy discoloration to spine and front board a bit shaken. Unpaged. Illus. with approximately 400 b/w photos and 50 small maps. "Pictures of Japanese Hot Spring Spas." Covers approximately 70 spas most in two page spreads. Four pages of text eight pages of lists and twenty pages of advertisements. Nihon Kotsu Kosha hardcover books
2000réf. 164074Tokyo: National Museum of Art Tokyo 2000. Softcover. VG-. Ex-library with usual marks. Some shelf wear and soiling on covers. Contents clean. White ill. wraps. 99 pp. Profuse color plates. Text in Japanese and English. Survey of early 20th century Japanese graphic designer. Includes examples from posters magazine covers book designs postcards as well as other media. National Museum of Art, Tokyo paperback books
1995réf. 29433Tokyo Japan: Tobu Museum of Art 1995. Softcover. VG- minor wear and soiling to cover edges sticker on upper right corner of cover. Orange wraps. 380 pp. 111 bw and color plates numerous bw ills. Text in Japanese with English translation at rear of book. Tobu Museum of Art paperback books
1990réf. 45371990. Softcover. VG. Color wraps. 62 pp. 6 bw 26 color plates. Foreword by Akiyoshi Tokoro. Essay by Phyllis Tuchman. Essay by Tadayasu Sakai. Text is in Japanese and English. Brief biography extensive list of exhibitions bibliography. paperback books
2003réf. 29805Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha 2003. Softcover. VG. Cream ill. wraps. xxvi 261 pp. 160 color plates. Text in Japanese and English. Includes paintings texts sculptures gongs insense boxes and other ceremonial and fine art objects. Text and "List of works" also in English. Fabulous color plates a lovely and solid book. Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha paperback books
2002réf. 323842002. Hardcover. VG- light wear to edges and corners. Color-illustrated boards with yellow and white spine lettering green textured end papers. 317 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from August 10 to October 27 2002 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toyko and from November 3 2002 to January 26 2003 at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Text in Japanese and English. hardcover books
1995réf. 212311995. Softcover. VG. Blue wraps/gold wraps in cardboard wrapper. 68 pp 124 pp. 33 color 79 color plates. This is a dual exhibition each with its own catalogue. Text in Japanese and English. paperback books
1971réf. 213341971. Softcover. VG- cover lightly worn stamp inside front cover. White wraps. Appx. 200 pp. 44 color 156 bw plates. Text in Japanese Spanish and English. paperback books
