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Embracing Defeat
by John W Dower
Drawing on a vast range of sources, from manga comics to MacArthur's report to Congress, this monumental new work by America's foremost historian of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. Alongside the familiar story of economic resurgence, Dower examines how the nation as a whole reacted to the contradictory experiences of humiliation at the hands of a foreign power and liberation from the demands of a suicidal nationalism. The result is a...
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The Rising Sun
by John Toland
John Toland was one of the most widely read military historians of the twentieth century. His many books include The Last 100 Days; Ships in the Sky; Battle: The Story of the Bulge; But Not in Shame; Adolf Hitler; and No Man’s Land. Originally from Wisconsin, he lived in Connecticut for many years with his wife.
The Chrysanthemum and The Sword
by Ruth Benedict
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is an influential study of Japan by Ruth Benedict written at the invitation of the Office of War Information in order to understand and predict the behavior of the Japanese in World War II by reference to a series of contradictions in traditional culture.
Hirohito and The Making Of Modern Japan
by Herbert P Bix
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine...
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Japan Books & Ephemera
The World Of the Shining Prince
by Morris, Ivan
Ivan Morris studied Japanese language and culture at Harvard University while serving in the Intelligence Section of the U.S. Navy Reserves. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1951, he worked for the Far East Section of the BBC as well as for the Japan and Pacific departments of the British Foreign Office. He lived in Tokyo for several years, writing, lecturing, and teaching. In 1960 he joined what would later be renamed the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at...
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Bushido: the Soul of Japan
by Nitobe, Inazo
Tuttle Publishing. Near Fine. 2001. Softcover. 080483413X . Very good spine, very clean. 203 pages. Bushido, the unwritten code governing the lives and conduct of the samuari; .
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A$18.56
Catalogue of Periodicals Written in European Languages and Published in Japan
by Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, Tokyo
[Tokyo]: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1936. Paperback. Very Good. index, 51p. Wrapper. 22cm.
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A$115.97
A JAPANESE MARRIAGE. Together With The Author's Japanese Song, "The Mousmee," And Its Music By Walter Hedgcock.
by Sladen, Douglas
London: Anthony Traherne. 1904. Hardback. New edition. 401pp. + 4pp ads. Decorative Cloth. Illus. in col. & b/w. Sl rubbing, some light foxing to endpapers o/w V.G+
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A$24.44
Nihon Kyosanto no subete 日本共産党のすべて ima anata no seikatsu o do kaeyo to shite iru no ka いまあなたの生活をどう变えようとしているのか
Tokyo: Sankei Shinbunsha Shuppankyoku サンケイ新聞社出版局, 1973. 296p., very good in wraps; text in Japanese. Overview of the Japanese Communist Party in the wake of its unprecedented electoral success in the previous year.
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A$38.66
Reminiscences of Seventy Years: The Autobiography of a Japanese Pastor
by Kozaki Hiromichi
Tokyo: Christian Literature Society of Japan, 1933. 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. Very Good. photo, 406p. Original blue-green boards. 21cm. Minor bubbling of front endpaper. A couple of inked corrections in an unknown hand. No jacket. Translated into English by Nariaki Kozaki, the author's brother.
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A$146.90
Japan Historical and Descriptive Revised and Enlarged from, "Les Voyages Celebres"
by Eden, Charles H
Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co. 1877. Octavo Size [approx 13x18cm]. Good+ Condition. Colour frontispiece. Black & white illustrations. Map. Front pastedown mildly insect affected at leading edge. Bookseller blind-stamp to preliminary pages. Previous owners name and date to prelims. Original publishers burgundy cloth with black decoration and gilt title to face and spine. Light wear to corners. Overall a clean and solid copy. 328 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all...
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A$250.00
Fujin gakkyu jittai chosa hokokusho: Kyoto-fu Soraku-gun Kamo-cho Tobi fujin gakkyu 婦人学級実態調查報告書:京都府相楽郡加茂町,当尾婦人学級
Kyoto: Kyoto-fu Kyoikucho Shakai Kyoikuka 京都府敎育庁社会敎育課, 1959. 114p., paperback, pages toned, chip at bottom of spine; gift inscription of the sociologist Shigematsu Toshiashi at top of front cover.
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A$38.66
Folk Arts of Japan
by Munsterberg, Hugo
Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo Japa: Charles E. Tuttle. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Original decorative cloth. Stated first edition. Spine sunned, light foxing to top edge. Firm and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, sunned to spine, slightly foxed, tiny tear to spine end. The slipcase has slight wear and slight foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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A$61.84
Bibliography of the Japanese Empire, 1906-1926: Being a Classified List of the Literature Issued in European Languages since the Publication of Fr. von Wenckstern's "Bibliography of the Japanese Empire", up to the Year 1926.
by Nachod, Oskar
London: Edward Goldston, 1928. 1st ed. (2 vols.) 1928. 1st ed. xv, 832p. Original black cloth. 25 cm. No Jackets. The outer pair of of a short row of gilt stars have been partially whited out on both backstrips. A German language edition was also published.
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A$77.32
Kabuki
by Masakatsu Gunji; Keene, Donald (Introduction)
Japan: Kodansha International, 1985. Book. Illus. by Yoshida, Chiaki. Fine. Hardcover. Revised Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 223 pages. Text in English. Chronology. Index. "Revised edition of the definitive volume on kabuki written by the leading authority in Japan. Contains 60 new color and 200 new black and white photos, featuring the distinguished senior kabuki actors and the younger generation that will succeed them. Detailed captions allow readers to follow the...
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A$123.63
Gods and Goblins: Japanese Folk Paintings from Otsu
by McArthur, Meher
Pasadena: Pacific Asia Museum, 1999. Paperback. 96 pg. paperback, 8.5 x 10.5 inches, very good. Illustrated profusely with color photographs of Japanese Folk Art Paintings.
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A$38.66
The No Plays of Japan
by Waley, Arthur
Londion: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1965. Hardcover in price-clipped dust-jacket. 319pp., Short Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with frontispiece, two disgrams and a photograph. With letters by Oswald Sickert. No previous ownership marks. Small price sticker removed inside cover. A clean, square, unmarked copy in complete dust-jacket. " Waley's anthology of 19 plays, with summaries of an additional 17 plays, was one of the first introductions in English to the librettos of this...
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A$24.74
Among the Figures: A Perspective on Contemporary Art: September 22-November 8 1992, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, December 12, 1992-January 31, 1993, the National Museum of Art, Osaka ..
by Motoe, Kunio, [and others], essays
Tokyo: National Museum of Art, 1992. Paperback. Near Fine. color illustrations, 141p. Softcover in original wrappers. 28 cm. Text in Japanese and also selectively in English.
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A$69.58
Exhibition of Japanese Paintings from the collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
[Japan]: Nippon Television Network Corporation, 1983. Paperback. 168p., wraps, very good; 8.25x11.75 inches, profusely illustrated in color and B&W. Text mostly in Japanese, with foreword by Jan Fontein and list of exhibits in English.
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A$30.93
Admiral Togo
by Lloyd, Arthur
Tokyo: Kinkodo Publishing Co, 1905. Paperback. Very Good. portrait, photos & illustrations, 160p. Original red cloth-backed wrapper. 19cm. Repaired tear on inside of front cover.
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A$115.97
[J:] Shoroku tanshun 書簏蟫雋 [Thought-Provoking Bookworms in the Bamboo Trunk Full of Books]
by LI, Jiweng 李濟翁, XIAO, Can 蕭參, & CHEN, Jiru 陳繼儒
42; 32 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers (rubbed), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers (both labels partly defective), new stitching. Kyoto: Takemura Shinbei, 1698. First edition to be printed in Japan of this collection of Chinese literary texts, with the Preface of Isshiki Tokei (or Maeda Tokei, 1673-1744), the Kyoto Confucian scholar who served the Yamashiro yodo fiefdom lord Noriyuki Ishikawa. The book is printed in kanbun with reading marks. It is rare, with no...
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A$11,597.25
The Complete Guide to Traditional Japanaese Performing Arts (Japanese-English Edition)
by Kodama Shoko
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2000. Trade Paperback. Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 280 pages. 4 1/2""w x 7 3/8""h. In Japanese and English.
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A$60.61
Japanese Society
by Nakane, Chie
Charles E. Tuttle, 1984. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$10.64
The Japanese
by REISCHAUER, Edwin O
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second printing. 443pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs, maps. Near fine with foxing to the edges in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with rubbing, chips and tears to the edges.
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A$30.93
The folk arts of Japan
by Munsterberg, Hugo
Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1959. Hardcover. 168p. hardcover in decorated cloth; dust jacket has a hole on the spine with abrasion to the cloth beneath. A decent reading copy of this beautifully designed book. Third printing.
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A$23.19
Nippon Times, Special Performance: Kabuki. Kabukiza, Tokyo December 3 1954. "Kanadehon Chushingura". Benefit American Joint Committee for Assisting Japanese-American Orphans
by [American civilian community in Japan]
Tokyo: the joint committee, 1954. Pamphlet. 12p., illustrated with a few production photos, presswork on glazed alkaline folio leaves folded once to make an 11.5x8 inch program fastened securely with two neat lengths of decorative ribbon. Lower outside corner-tip of entire brochure is badly crimped and the remaining surfaces are lightly crimped. Front cover has a small wrinkled puncture. Free within of any dust or markings, a fair-to-good research copy.
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A$34.02
Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan
by Richard Gordon Smith
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan.
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A$43.06
Temple Treasures of Japan
by Pier, Garrett Chatfield
New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, illustrations, index, xviii, 334p. Original green cloth. 19cm. No jacket. Book moderately skewed (enough so that it doesn't remain standing without support from neighboring books). No jacket.
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A$46.39
Otsuki Ayako senshokugashu: 大槻綾子染色画集 Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Kamakura 東京・横浜・京都・鎌倉
by Otsuki, Ayako 大槻綾子
Tokyo: Otsuki Senshoku Kobo 大槻染色工房, 1988. Pamphlet. 53p., wraps, thoroughly illustrated with color photos; text in Japanese. Very good. Signed inside back cover by the artist, in Japanese, dated 1994. Pamphlet laid in giving English titles of works. Catalog of an exhibition of Otsuki's unique depictions of city life done in batik technique on fabric.
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A$100.51
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced the West [Inscribed by Downer to Helen Hopper!]
by Downer, Lesley
London: Review Books, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Inscribed by Downer to Helen Hopper! Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in color and b&w. Book has mild edgewear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. DJ has mild rubbing. Hopper was an author of works on Japanese feminism and female leaders.
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A$38.66