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One of 6.000 copies printed.
Essay on Japan. Author is hidden behind the initials.
We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC.

First and only edition.This book is devoted to the little girl Kinko Hayashi and her friend, the boy Hiroshi from Kyoto. One day, miss Cassady from America visits Kinko's house and forces her mother to sale rare dolls which grandfathers made. But mother's colleagues from the tram depot and neighbors confront her. The author, Far East historian, translator and war correspondent Lev Rubinshtein (1905-1995) in the late 1920s participated in OBERIU (The Union of Real Art) meetings and was close with avant-garde poets Daniil Kharms and Nikita Oleynikov. He dreamed of visiting Japan, but got to a hospital on the eve of departure. Despite this the story was written knowledgeably. In 1981, he emigrated to the USA. The book was illustrated by the female graphic artist Valentina Lazarevskaya (1910-1973). She studied under Ely Bielutin, the founder of The New Reality artistic academy. The book is from the children's collection of Inna Shmeleva (1929-2020), an artist, who also studied under Bielutin. In 1962… Read More

The book was designed by the Russian-born painter and graphic artist Varvara Bubnova (1886-1983). Her mother was distantly related to the prominent poet Alexander Pushkin. Varvara studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In the early 1910s, she became a member of the Youth Union and participated in art exhibitions with Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and David Burlyuk. Bubnova also worked for the Institute of Artistic Culture with, among others, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Falk, Lyubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and Alexander Rodchenko. In 1923 she moved to Japan, where she lived until 1958, mainly as a teacher and developer of lithography. She taught Russian language and literature at Waseda University in Tokyo also. She was declared an undesirable alien in Japan in 1936 and deported from Tokyo. Bubnova's library and drawings burned after the attacks on Tokyo during WWII. In 1959 she returned to the USSR. The Japanese Emperor awarded Bubnova the Japanese Order of the… Read More

The book was designed by the Russian-born painter and graphic artist Varvara Bubnova (1886-1983). Her mother was distantly related to the prominent poet Alexander Pushkin. Varvara studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In the early 1910s, she became a member of the Youth Union and participated in art exhibitions with Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and David Burlyuk. Bubnova also worked for the Institute of Artistic Culture with, among others, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Falk, Lyubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and Alexander Rodchenko. In 1923 she moved to Japan, where she lived until 1958, mainly as a teacher and developer of lithography. She taught Russian language and literature at Waseda University in Tokyo also. She was declared an undesirable alien in Japan in 1936 and deported from Tokyo. Bubnova's library and drawings burned after the attacks on Tokyo during WWII. In 1959 she returned to the USSR. The Japanese Emperor awarded Bubnova the Japanese Order of the… Read More

Leningrad, Priboi, [1927].Limited to 8 000 copies. First edition.The main text of the book written by Boris Pilnyak (1894-1938), who traveled to Japan twice, in 1926 and in 1932. Pilnyak was one of the most bestselling Russian modern authors of that times despite a lot of his text critized by authorities. This novel condemned in Pravda newspaper for sympathy to Japanese imperialism. Japanese suspected Pilniak in espionage and Soviets executed him in 1937 as a Japanese spy. The Pilniak's essay one of the the important texts on Japan written by an european writer in 20th century.The second part of the book is formally just glosses to the main part. The author Koryo-saram Roman Kim (1899-1967), important Russian intelligence agent. The one of his glosses in this book is one of the earliest foreign mentioning of Ninja and the ninja culture, and it was the first mentioning of ninja in Russia. The book was banned unless 1957 and all copies ought to be destoyed or put to libraries' spetskhran.Rare… Read More

東京 [Tokyo], 右文書院 [Yūbunshoin], 昭和16年 [1942].Limited to 20 000 copies.Rare wartime Japanese kids almanac.This illustrated 'book of everything' includes different information about Japanese history, nature, art, architecture and many other things. For example, there are images of: men's and women's clothing types and styles (including Western fashion), hairstyles, accessories, samurai armor (how to put on step by step), weapons, gods and goddesses (among them the Statue of Liberty), Japanese toys, painting, musical instruments and dances, means of transport, events, furniture and décor, animals and birds (and mythological animals), insects and fishes, plants, etc. Only images of uniform and Japanese battleships reminds us of the time. There are photos of battleship Ise, cruiser Kako (struck in 1942), submarine I-1 and ocean liner Asama Maru (damaged in 1944). All items are signed with kanji and furigana, Japanese reading aid (syllabic characters, printed next to a kanji). It is… Read More