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1847Best.-Nr. 183301847. Utagawa Yoshitora. Ichinoya Kassen 1847 presents a mid nineteenth century ukiyoe interpretation of samurai warfare rooted in the historical memory of the Genpei War a foundational conflict in Japanese military history. The print depicts three samurai engaged in combat two mounted with swords drawn and one on foot wielding a long spear emphasizing coordinated martial roles within battle. Produced during the late Edo period when samurai identity was increasingly codified through visual culture rather than active warfare the image contributes to the preservation and stylization of martial tradition. The detailed rendering of armor and weaponry reflects both historical reference and contemporary interest in the aesthetics of the warrior class situating the work within a broader cultural effort to memorialize feudal conflict in an era of relative peace. Utagawa Yoshitora. Ichinoya Kassen. Japan 1847. Ukiyoe woodblock print. Measures approximately 14 x 9.5 inches. The composition shows three armored samurai each equipped with components of traditional armor including dÅ chest armor sode shoulder guards kote armored sleeves kabuto helmets with shikoro neck guards kusazuri skirt armor haidate thigh guards and suneate shin protection. Two figures ride horses with swords drawn while the third advances on foot with a spear his katana at his side. The background features stylized mountains and ocean waves consistent with Edo period landscape conventions. The print is hand colored with gradations of red and blue tones with strong clarity in line and detail. Created during a period when ukiyoe artists frequently revisited historical battles to reinforce cultural identity the print reflects the enduring significance of samurai narratives within Japanese visual and literary traditions. Scenes such as the Battle of Ichinotani were widely reproduced and circulated contributing to popular historical consciousness and the romanticization of warrior ethos. The emphasis on armor detail and combat posture provides valuable material for the study of military representation in Edo period art. Minor chipping to borders not affecting the image; colors remain vivid and well preserved. Overall very good. unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 184651950. Photographic archive of ninety-one silver gelatin prints dating from the 1950s documents the daily military and civilian life of an African American soldier stationed in Japan during the early Cold War less than a decade after President Harry S. Truman's 1948 executive order mandating desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces. The images capture integrated base life among Black and white servicemen recreational sports teams missile operations and family networks extending between the United States and overseas postings. Produced during a period when the U.S. military served as one of the first federally desegregated institutions the archive situates African American service within the broader context of Cold War geopolitics and the American presence in postwar Japan. Archive consists of ninety-one original vernacular silver gelatin photographs measuring approximately 4 x 5 inches to 3 x 2 inches. Images depict soldiers in baseball uniforms preparing for games vehicles transporting players and spectators group portraits on base with tanks trucks and jet aircraft visible in the background and individual uniformed portraits including one dated 1957 on the verso. One photograph dated "APR 1959" records a missile launch reflecting the technological environment of mid-century military installations. Additional images show African American children in a classroom family members and friends stateside and leisure scenes including three African American men dressed for golf beside a vehicle while the principal subject leans from the window. Several photographs include handwritten inscriptions on the verso addressed to the soldier's wife. Roughly one-third of the images prominently depict African American servicemen often the same two soldiers interacting with both Black and white peers; others show interactions with Japanese civilians and mixed-race groups on base. Created during the consolidation of U.S.-Japan security alliances and amid the evolving implementation of military desegregation the photographs provide visual evidence of integrated service life recreation and family continuity within overseas deployments. The juxtaposition of sports missile testing domestic scenes and cross-cultural encounters reflects the layered realities of African American military experience in the 1950s. Photographs slightly bowed; images crisp with strong detail and clear compositions. Overall very good condition. Cohesive vernacular record of Black military service and everyday life in early Cold War Japan. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 91322n.p. n.d. WWII. Very Good. Small WWII Japanese propaganda broadside. 13 x 10 cm. Chip and tear in bottom margin. Depict two Allied soldiers looking toward the "Philippine Deep' and seeing numerous presumably Allied. ships and planes under attack and sinking. unknown books
1885Best.-Nr. 140621885. Two Japanese sumo wrestlers nineteenth century shown facing one another in a low starting position associated with the opening moments of a bout. The image records sumo as both an athletic practice and a highly recognizable element of Japanese popular culture during the period when commercial photography increasingly circulated images of Japanese occupations customs dress and public entertainments to domestic and foreign audiences. Albumen print measuring 10.5" x 8.5" mounted on split card. The composition isolates the two wrestlers against a largely plain setting directing attention to their crouched bodies stance and clothing rather than to an arena or surrounding spectators. Color has been applied by hand only to the wrestlers' garments a restrained use of hand coloring characteristic of many nineteenth century Japanese commercial photographs. The otherwise uncolored image retains the tonal range of the albumen print while emphasizing the patterned textiles worn by the two men. Sumo underwent substantial institutional change during the Meiji period as Japan reorganized its political and cultural institutions yet the sport remained closely associated with established ceremonial practices professional competition and public entertainment. Photographs such as this circulated recognizable Japanese subjects through the expanding nineteenth century photographic trade while also preserving specific details of wrestlers' dress and positioning. Minor loss of tone and contrast; overall good condition. A focused nineteenth century study of two sumo wrestlers distinguished by selective period hand coloring and an unusually spare composition. unknown books
1885Best.-Nr. 139321885. Kusakabe Kimbei. Festival Lanterns at Bentendori Yokohama circa 1880s records one of Yokohama's principal commercial streets during the Meiji period when the treaty port served as a major point of exchange between Japanese merchants and foreign residents and travelers. Bentendori was lined with businesses selling silk porcelain ivory work curios photographs and other goods to an international clientele; Kusakabe himself maintained a photographic studio on the street beginning in 1881. Original nineteenth-century hand-colored albumen photograph 8 x 10 inches matted to 10½ x 13 inches. The street is decorated with rows of festival lanterns above the commercial district of Bentendori preserving the appearance of its shops and streetscape during the period of Yokohama's rapid growth as an international port. A label in the lower right corner reads "A 264 Festival Lanterns at Bentendori Yokohama." Kusakabe who had worked as a colorist and assistant to photographers including Felice Beato and Raimund von Stillfried opened his own Yokohama workshop in 1881 and became one of the leading producers of hand-colored photographs for the foreign market. Yokohama had opened to foreign trade in 1859 and developed rapidly during the Meiji era into a center for export commerce and photographic production. Bentendori became especially associated with shops serving foreign visitors including the photographic businesses that sold individual prints and souvenir albums depicting Japanese cities occupations customs and landscapes. Much of pre-earthquake Yokohama was destroyed in the Great KantÅ Earthquake of September 1 1923 making surviving nineteenth-century street views a record of commercial districts whose built environment was subsequently lost or extensively rebuilt. Very good condition. unknown books
1945Best.-Nr. 59621945. Baltimore News Post August 24 1945 reports Japanese claims that radiation from the atomic bombings continued to kill thousands preserving an early American newspaper presentation of effects that remained poorly understood and publicly contested immediately after the war. Published eighteen days after Hiroshima fifteen days after Nagasaki and ten days after Japan accepted Allied surrender terms the issue supports research into the emergence of the atomic age wartime casualty reporting American interpretations of Japanese information and the press's initial vocabulary for radiation sickness. The United States had used atomic bombs against Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9 killing tens of thousands and leaving survivors exposed to injuries and radiation whose full consequences were not yet established in American public discourse. Baltimore News Post. Baltimore Maryland. August 24 1945. Front page dominated by the large banner headline above the masthead: "ATOMIC BOMB RAYS KILL THOUSANDS JAPS CLAIM." Its use of "rays" records the uncertain terminology through which newspapers initially communicated deaths occurring after the blasts while the attribution to Japanese claims demonstrates the skepticism with which such reports could be framed. American military officials subsequently disputed or minimized early accounts of lethal residual radiation before investigative teams documented its medical consequences. A small front-page photograph of General Douglas MacArthur connects the atomic-bomb report to the approaching Allied occupation: President Harry S. Truman had designated MacArthur Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers on August 14 and MacArthur would soon oversee Japan's formal surrender and postwar administration. Appearing between Japan's announcement of surrender and the formal ceremony aboard the USS Missouri on September 2 the issue captures the compressed interval in which American readers confronted both the immediate human consequences of nuclear warfare and the transfer of Japan from wartime enemy to occupied nation. The headline is particularly significant as evidence of how reports of radiation mortality entered mass circulation before extensive Western observation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and before later press accounts described radiation sickness in greater detail. Complete page count and dimensions were not supplied and are therefore not assigned. Minor expected handling wear with the bold headline and MacArthur portrait remaining clear; very good overall. A visually forceful record of the first weeks of nuclear-age reporting and the uncertain public understanding of atomic radiation at the close of World War II. unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 166461941. Photo Album Education Co-educational Primary School in Tokyo. Three-Wood Common Elementary School1941 during World War 2 right before Pearl Harbor. Photo 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
1936Best.-Nr. 316722London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd 1936. Bound ion three quarters modern polished crimson calf and marbled baords. Fine. T. Werner Laurie, Ltd unknown books
1904Best.-Nr. 316723London: 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
1969Best.-Nr. 89030Tokyo: Japan Modern Decorative Arts Association 1969. Paperback. Very Good. illustrated a few in color 72p. Softcover in original flapped wrapper. 29cm. Cover title: Modern Decorative Arts of Japan. Published in connection with their annual exhibition. Japan Modern Decorative Arts Association paperback books
1935Best.-Nr. 88894Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry. Japanese Government Railways 1935. Revised Edition. Paperback. Good. illustrations folding map 50p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Cover chips and tears reglued here and there leaving some small gaps on narrow backstrip and in upper right corner of front cover. Internally sound with some creasing and dog-earing. An uncommon tourist guide. Board of Tourist Industry. Japanese Government Railways paperback books
1880Best.-Nr. 2560561880. Albumen print mounted and captioned beneath image "Fusiyama highest mt. in Japan 14500 feet high-90 miles from Yokohama.". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches Image. Foxing waterstain on mount extending into top of image. Albumen print mounted and captioned beneath image "Fusiyama highest mt. in Japan 14500 feet high-90 miles from Yokohama.". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches Image. WH/9/Box D unknown books
1919Best.-Nr. 50105Tokyo: Taishomyoshozuesha 1919. Color folding map 7½" x approximately 2' 6" depicting a color bird's eye view of Nikko Japan with labels in English and Japanese. The map verso has a description of the area also in English and Japanese alongside additional illustrations and a road map. Contained in stiff green illustrated covers fine with light rubbing to cover extremities. Taishomyoshozuesha unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 82706Tokyo: Department of Education 1937. Paperback. Very Good. folding organizational chart photos ii 123p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Department of Education paperback books
1900Best.-Nr. 235312Japan 1900. 50 hand colored-albumen prints mounted on card. Each print framed by two original watercolor vignettes. Tissue guards. 1 vols. Oblong folio 12-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches; image 8 x 10-1/2/ inches. Lacquered wood covers with hand-painted title in gold; central vignette depicting rickshaw and passenger; floral motif background to front and rear covers. A.e.g. Spine neatly rebacked in leather. Fine. 50 hand colored-albumen prints mounted on card. Each print framed by two original watercolor vignettes. Tissue guards. 1 vols. Oblong folio 12-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches; image 8 x 10-1/2/ inches. Fifty finely pastel hand-colored albumen prints some captioned in English in the negative some with pencil captions. Includes scenes of Koyoto Nara Osaka Kobe and Nagasaki; Japanese junk European steamer a tea house at Tokyo street vendors Kabuki actors including a member of the renowned Danjuro lineage sumo wrestlers dancers and geisha as well as some studio portraits. Each image is framed by two original watercolor vignettes a total of 100 unique images mostly depicting scenes of nature. unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 816991999. Paperback. Near Fine. illustrations some color 525p. Wrapper. 30cm. Japanese text summaries in English. We used the English title which appears on the cover and title-page along with the Japanese. paperback books
1942Best.-Nr. 79559Manila: Department of Information Imperial Japanese Forces 1942. Paperback. Poor. 4 vii 1 86p. Original wrapper. 15cm. Cover intact but worn and rather stained. Bottom third of title-page gone as is top fifth of the next Contents leaf. Also lacks final six pages --we don't know what those pages contained. Contents browned; some dog-earing. Department of Information, Imperial Japanese Forces paperback books
1907Best.-Nr. 788321907. Paperback. Good. 1 Article of Association. n.p.: 1907. 9p. Wrapper. 22cm. Stitching gone.; 2 Autograph Letter unsigned dated Fed. 22 1910 acknowledging receipt of a contribution to the Society by the Honduran consul signed receipt laid in; and 3 three copies of a printed broadsheet which reprints a Dec. 1901 "Act concerning the Red Cross Society of Japan" on one side and the rules of Medals and badges and Rules of Subscriptions on the other side. All items sound but with a fair amount of spotting/staining. paperback books
2002Best.-Nr. 789842002. illustrations some color 116 156p. Wrapper. 30cm. Japanese text summaries in English. We used the English title which appears on the cover and title-page along with the Japanese. unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 4296Toyama 1927. 1st and only ed. in English. Paperback. Fine. index iii 133p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. "The library consists.of the collection originally made by Lafcadio Hearn.with some slight addition acquired by the family after his death." An almost new copy purchased by Phil about 30 years ago from Charles Tuttle of Tuttle Publishing at his family's used book store in Rutland Vermont. paperback books
Best.-Nr. 68107New York n.d. 194-. Paperback. Good. Folded four-page leaflet. 28 cm. Later horizontal fold. Campaign to raise ten million dollars to establish a new university. paperback books
1883Best.-Nr. 58137Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers 1883. First edition. 169 illustrations. xiii 301 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt designed by the author. Spine ends chipped extremities rubbed. Very Good. First edition. 169 illustrations. xiii 301 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Lee and Shepard Publishers unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 55196Tokyo: Tokyo City Government 1935. First edition. Photographic views of Tokyo. 1 vols. Small oblong 4to. Flexible silk-wrapped boards with silk ties. Minor rubbing else Fine. First edition. Photographic views of Tokyo. 1 vols. Small oblong 4to. Tokyo City Government unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 87829Tokyo Japan: Yama-to-Keikoku Sha Co. Ltd 1970. Two Volume set with two mini vinyls tipped into rears of text. Two Octavo volumes 19cm; photographic paper-covered boards; dustjackets; ii2062pp; ii2062pp; colorful photographic illustrations throughout both volumes. Text in Japanese with Scientific names and English names included for bird species. Both volumes have modest shelf-wear with rubbing to paper of board edges and trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Volume I dustwrapper has trivial surface wear; Very Good. Volume II dustwrapper has trivial surface wear with tiny tear to lower front flap fold; Very Good. Volume I explores over 90 species of terrestrial birds each classified by their habitat. Volume II includes 93 species of wild birds focusing on those on watersides and the coastal area. Both volumes include colorful illustrations and Scientific names of the bird species. 87829. Yama-to-Keikoku Sha Co., Ltd unknown books
1900Best.-Nr. 9033029Paris: Maurice De Brunoff 1900. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in quarter vellum with tan cloth boards spine and cover stamped in illustrated gilt. Top edge gilt textured cloth endpapers. A dazzling massive and stately book. Full of illustrations. Sixty-eight beautiful full-page photogravures in black and white and color with printed-text tissue guards. Ninety-nine additional illustrations drawings engravings and photos in black and white interspersed with the text. In French. 12 x 15 1/2 inches. 277 pages plus preface. Maurice De Brunoff hardcover books
