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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 Book Of Five Rings
by Miyamoto Musashi
The Book of Five Rings is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645. It is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.
Japanese History Books & Ephemera
Collection of late nineteenth-century photographs of Japan
by [MEIJI PHOTOGRAPHS]
[Japan].. (circa 1870s-1890s).. 94 small handcoloured albumen photographs all approx 8.6 x 13.4 cm (most in landscape), many with studio captions and numbers, in faded but sound condition. A remarkable assemblage; with many studies of geisha, portraits, scenes of rural and traditional life including a few of wrestlers, samurai, and musicians, and famed studio images. From the estate of well known Hong Kong artist, historian and collector, Arthur Hacker. .
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A$450.00
![Japan : A History in Art. [Archaic period; Asuka period; Nara Period : The golden age of Buddhism; Heian period : Emerging aristocracy; Kamakura period : Seeds of feudalism; Muromachi period; Momoyama period; Edo-Tokugawa period; Meiji period]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/045/725/129725045.0.b.jpg)
Japan : A History in Art. [Archaic period; Asuka period; Nara Period : The golden age of Buddhism; Heian period : Emerging aristocracy; Kamakura period : Seeds of feudalism; Muromachi period; Momoyama period; Edo-Tokugawa period; Meiji period]
by Smith, Bradley, 1910- [Curtis Fields, Baikei Tadashi Suzuki, Daniel Stampler, Madoka Kanai, Shinichi Nagai, Kazuko Yamakawa, Edwin O Reischauer, Yukio Yashiro, Nagatake Asano, Douglas Overton, Marius B Jansen]
Garden City, NY : A Gemini-Smith Inc. Book, Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964., 1964. Good. 1st printing ; 295 pp. ; color illustrations, color map, color portraits ; 33 cm. ; LCCN: 64-21410 ; LC: N7350; Dewey: 915.2 ; ISBN: 0385032404 ; red cloth with gold lettering in Japanese and English, tattered color pictorial dustjacket ; text in English ; "Japan's history os here projected not only through a brilliant historical narrative, but through an unprecedented array of art treasures newly...
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A$77.59
Kanji & Kana = 漢字かな a handbook of the Japanese writing system
by Hadamitzky, Wolfgang. ; Spahn, Mark
Boston ; Rutland, Vt. ; Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, 1997., 1997. As New. Rev. ed. ; 427 pp. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0804820775; LCCN: 98-123384 ; OCLC: 38990179 ; "Since 1981, Japanese Kanji & Kanaby Wolfgang Hadamitzky and Mark Spahn has been one of the most trusted and popular study guides for beginning and intermediate students of Japanese. This revised edition not only covers the current 1,945 joyo kanji, it also provides a comprehensive overview of the Japanese kanji and kana writing system, including...
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A$43.45
Different Games, Different Rules : Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other.
by Yamada, Haru. [foreword, Deborah Tannen; jacket design, photos, David Stevenson]
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997., 1997. Fine. xviii, 166 pp. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0195094883 ; LCCN: 96-39554 ; OCLC: 35910245 ; LC: HF5718; Dewey: 302.2/0952 ; "Japan and the United States are in closer contact politically and economically than ever before, yet in many ways our nations are as far from mutual understanding as ever. Misconceptions and miscommunications between East and West continue to plague this important relationship, frustrating the best efforts of both cultures to...
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A$74.48
Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage & Sex In Contemporary Japan
by Bornoff, Nicholas
New York, New York: Pocket Books. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 1991. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 479 pages: 6.25 x 9.5 in.: 2.4: KB#000789: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "Japan and the Japanese, despite their economic omnipresence, remain a source of mystery and fascination to most Westerners. Now journalist Nicholas Bornoff opens a unique, richly researched window to the East in this revealing, often surprising account of sexual pursuits and politics in...
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A$48.10
![Tariki : Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace. [Jinsei no Mokuteki; Taiga no Itteki] [Vital Spirit of Menju; Living with Illness; Flexibility is Life; Honen, Shinran, and Rennyo; The Ultimate Negative Thinker; A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty Rive](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/313/714/47714313.0.b.1.jpg)
Tariki : Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace. [Jinsei no Mokuteki; Taiga no Itteki] [Vital Spirit of Menju; Living with Illness; Flexibility is Life; Honen, Shinran, and Rennyo; The Ultimate Negative Thinker; A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty Rive
by Itsuki, Hiroyuki, 1932- [trans., Joseph Robert ; artwork, Reiko Itsuki; jacket photograph, Eiko Ishioka; book design, Eiko Ishioka, Toshiya Masuda]
Tokyo ; New York ; London : Kodansha, 2001., 2001. As New. Silver grey and silver pictorial cloth with solarized illustration by Reiko Itsuki, in photographic dustjacket ; xvii, 229 pp. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 4062099810 ; LCCN: 00-69158 ; OCLC: 45604029 ; Drawing on his own life experiences, a highly regarded Japanese writer and thinker shows how the practice of Pure Land Buddhism is harmonious with the workings of daily life, making it easily adaptable for seekers in both the East and the West today. ; AS NEW
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A$62.07
Collection of Japanese Popular Music.
by [JAPANESE POPULAR MUSIC]
Tokyo: The Kaiseikwan.. Taisho 5 [1916].. 10 volumes complete in original wrappers presented in a Japanese case with toggle ties, one toggle missing. 36pp in each volume. Upper cover of each volume features a large handsome hand coloured chrysanthemum, original wrappers, attractive red ties. Silk colour pictorial title label on case. image of chrysanthemum little offset onto lower cover of the volume above as usual. Cloth on exterior of the case worn with a little loss at corners and in one area of the...
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A$900.00
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
by John Toland
Modern Library, 2003. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 954 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches.
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A$38.84
Beat Zen Square Zen and ZEN
by WATTS, Alan
(San Francisco): City Lights Books, 1959. First Edition. Paper wraps. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 25, followed by one page of publisher's advertisements. Bound in saddle-stapled stiff printed wraps. Age-toning to edges of covers; corners sharp. Withal, a presentable copy. Watts gained recognition for his widely-read The Way of Zen (1957), published the same year as Kerouac's On the Road. To address the sudden rise of Beat culture, (Kerouac was said to go to bed obscure the night before his novel was reviewed...
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A$38.79
The Noh Play. "Ha-goromo" or "The Robe of Feathers."
by [NOH - JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT]
[circa1930s].. Japanese woodblock print on fine paper tipped onto thin card 24.3 x 35.8 cms; 29.8 x 40.8 cms (with mount), descriptive text in English and Japanese tipped to the verso, scant foxing mainly affecting the mount, overall very good condition. A finely designed image, richly coloured and embossed, artist's chop at lower right. The text on verso gives a brief history of Noh drama, and recounts the story of this popular Noh play. From a series depicting a Noh play for each month of the year. .
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A$225.00
![The de la Chine et des Indes. [vintage paper advertising label for tea from China and India].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/321/937/1594937321.0.b.jpg)
The de la Chine et des Indes. [vintage paper advertising label for tea from China and India].
by [1890S TEA EPHEMERA]
Paris.: Compagnie Des Antilles.. circa1890s.. Tea crate label 16.5 x 22 cms, textured cream stock, with coloured ilustration and adjacent text panel in red, in very good condition. Attractive advertising ephemera for Compagnie des Antilles, a French wholesaler founded in 1884 by René Honoré Collas. The company was very succesful, winning two gold medals at the Nice Exhibition of 1892. .
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A$65.00
New Map of War Fronts in Indian Ocean and Bengal Bay
by [WWII MAP OF ASIA] WISNER, W. H
Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune.. April 211942.. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 37.5 x 53.2 cm; 60 x 45 x 59.6 cm (sheet), marginal browning and at the folds, but remarkably bright, in very good condition. World War II map of Asia (save for Japan), showing British allies, colonies and lines of supply and marking Japanese territorial occupation, published in the Chicago Daily Tribune "The World's Greatest Newspaper" in April 1942. "The Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal are the strategic...
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A$750.00
Cabinet Card of a Naval Officer by the Yamamoto studio.
by YAMAMOTO, R
Itchome, Aioicho, Yokohama.. (circa1890).. Cabinet card, silver albumen photograph, 14 x 9.5 cm backed onto card and an elaborate olive toned pebbled thick card mount 18.1 x 11.5 cm, blind stamped, the signature of the studio in gilt, upper and lower edge with scalloped edges, pencilled note in rather amateur characters on reverse, some silver mirroring, but in very good condition. Fine portrait of an unknown officer, from a famed studio but, remarkably, about whom little is known (see: Terry Bennet,...
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A$125.00
![Children of the Sun : The Japanese and the Outside World. [Nine defence mechanisms;China and Korea and Japan;Commodore Perry;Meiji Restoration; Western rejection and World War Two; Shock of the defeat; General MacArthur; Japanese literature; Popular culture in Japan]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/218/714/47714218.0.b.jpg)
Children of the Sun : The Japanese and the Outside World. [Nine defence mechanisms;China and Korea and Japan;Commodore Perry;Meiji Restoration; Western rejection and World War Two; Shock of the defeat; General MacArthur; Japanese literature; Popular culture in Japan]
by Kitahara, Michio
Sandgate, Folkestone, England : Paul Norbury Publications, 1989., 1989. Fine. 160 pp. ; red covers with gold lettering, in colorful dustjacket ; detailed psycho-analytical study of the Japanese and their history since the Meiji Restoration ; Contents : Nine defence mechanisms -- China and Korea and Japan -- Commodore Perry : A Drama of Power Display -- Two treaties and the Meiji Restoration -- Processes of Westernisation -- Unsuccessful identification -- Western rejection and World War Two -- Shock of...
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A$69.83
Totally Bonsai: A Guide to Growing, Shaping, and Caring for Miniature Trees and Shrubs.
by Coussins, Craig. [eds., Richard Dewing, Toria Leitch, Diana Steedman, Sharanjit Dhol; photos, Ian Howes; preface, Salvatore Liporace; bonsai, Luigi Maggione, Koos le Roux, Joe Day, Gary Marchal]
Boston ; Rutland, VT ; Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, 2001., 2001. As New. 1st edition, 1st printing ; 128 pp. : color illustrations ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0804834202 ; OCLC: 48760399 ; green cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; "The author, having more than fifteen years of experience in the field, has incorporated the enti re process of creating and maintaining bonsai into this comprehensive beginner's guide." ; AS NEW
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A$54.31
The Japanese Empire -- Its Growth in Modern Times
by [WWII MAP OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE] WISNER, W. H
Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune.. December 161941.. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 50 x 41.5 cm; 60 x 45 cm (sheet), two inset legends, marginal browning and at the folds, but remarkably bright, in very good condition. Map of the Japanese Empire published in the Chicago Daily Tribune "The World's Greatest Newspaper" on December 16th 1941, 9 days after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. The two legends list the "Wars of Modern Japan" from 1894, with territorial gains marked, noting that "Each...
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A$675.00
Complete Course of Japanese Conversation-Grammar: A New and Practical Method of Learning the Japanese Language.
by Vaccari, Oreste and Enko Elisa Vaccari
New York : Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1944., 1944. Good. 508 pp. ; red cloth with gold lettering ; covers worn ; text foxed ; endpapers slightly soiled ; name on eps ; G
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A$62.07
The Real Triumph of Japan : The Conquest of the Silent Foe.
by Seaman, Louis L
New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1906., 1906. Very Good. [1st edition] ; decorative green, white, red and gold cloth ; spine letering faded ; ownership stamp on a few pages ; a little creased at pp. 130 and 131 ; many detailed photographs of the Japanese Army at war with Russia in the field, with views of mobile hospitals and recuperation facilities in Japan ; also reproductions of signage and documents ; the author is praising Japanese medical practices in war and implores the US to follow its lead...
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A$124.14
China and the Present Crisis with Notes on a Visit to Japan and Korea.
by WALTON, JOSEPH, M.P
London.: Samuel Low, Marston & Company.. 1st Edition.. 1900.. Large coloured folding map of China showing railway concessions, coalfields, iron mines, navigable waterways, &c. xii + 319pp, index. Half title and last blank lightly foxed, closed tears in folding map neatly repaired with archival tape with evidence of a previous repair on the rear, but map in very good order. Original attractive pictorial black cloth stamped in gilt, with closed tears at either edge of the head of the spine and a closed...
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A$225.00
Kyusho-Jitsu : The Dillman Method Of Pressure Point Fighting
by Dillman, George A. / Thomas, Chris
Reading, Pennsylvania: Dillman Karate International Publications. Fine. 1995. 1992 Edition: Fourth Printing. Soft Cover. 271 pages: 9 x 10.5 in.: 2.2: KB#004622: LCCN# 92-90024. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "George A. Dillman, a ninth degree black belt, has been a significant presence on the American martial arts scene for decades. In the late sixties and early seventies he was a widely respected tournament competitor winning all divisions in major tournaments. Then, Dillman began to concentrate...
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A$60.52
![有趣帖. [Yūshujō]. [Album with Elegance].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/754/544/1050544754.0.b.jpg)
有趣帖. [Yūshujō]. [Album with Elegance].
by [栖霞山樵 [SEIKA SANSHō] AND OTHER JAPANESE INK PAINTERS]
Shōwa 5. [1930].. Ten ink paintings presented in a cloth covered Japanese accordion style album. Upper and lower edges lightly insect damaged, insect damage in three small places within the album itself not affecting the paintings, title label a little nibbled but nevertheless a very pleasing album blue cloth case somewhat worn and faded, with toggles. 24.5 x 18cm. The ten paintings in this album depict a variety of subjects. They are the works of a skillful group of likely amateur ink painters...
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A$350.00
![[Wood Block Prints] Ancient Customs of Japan. Selections from Prints of the Customary Observances of the Twelvemonths in Old Japan.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/558/716/1556716558.0.b.jpg)
[Wood Block Prints] Ancient Customs of Japan. Selections from Prints of the Customary Observances of the Twelvemonths in Old Japan.
by [TAKESHITA, KIN-U]
[Kyoto].: [Uchida].. (Circa1950s).. Four numbered woodblock prints with added hand colour each 27.6 x 40.6 cms, tipped onto original backing sheets 34.3 x 48.6 cms in the original decorated stamped striped folder with title label (a little scuffed and worn, small tide-mark on an inside fold) scattered foxing affecting two of the prints (more pronounced on one), but the whole in very good condition. Suite of four numbered costume prints, after the Meiji-era artist Kin-U Takeshita captioned on the label:...
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A$425.00
![生命保険漫画. [Seimei Hoken Manga]. [Life Insurance Manga Postcards].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/491/775/1337775491.0.b.jpg)
生命保険漫画. [Seimei Hoken Manga]. [Life Insurance Manga Postcards].
by [OKAMOTO IPPEI AND OTHERS]. 岡本一平他
大阪. [Osaka].: [日本生命保険株式会社]. Nihon Seimei Hoken Kabushiki Kaisha.. 昭和8 [1933].. 5 colour manga postcards, 9 x 15 cm, in slightly foxed original envelope. Postcards are all in very good condition. This set of manga postcards were published in1933 by Nippon Life Insurance Company to promote the benefits of life insurance. Nippon Life Insurance Company was established in Osaka in 1889. Instead of presenting...
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A$200.00
The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan
by Scalapino, Robert (Edited by)
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. 1977. Very Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 426 pages. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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A$20.00
