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Japanese Cooking

by Gail Weinshel Katz

Blanc De Chine

by P J Donnelly

Japanese Verbs At a Glance

by Naoko Chino

South Australiana Volume 16 No 1 March,1977

by Various

White Coolies

by Betty Jeffrey

Master Handbook Of Electronic Tables & Formulas

by Martin Clifford

Japanese Cooking

by Peter and Joan Martin

Marugoto

by Japan Foundation

The Knights Of Bushido a Short History Of Japanese War Crimes

by Lord Russell Of Liverpool

Minna No Nihongo Shokyu 1 Dai 2

by 3a Corporation

A Guide To Japanese Hot Springs

by Ishiguro Yoko Hotta Anne

The Art Of Japanese Ceramics

by Tsugio Mikami

A Dictionary Of Japanese Artists

by Laurance P Roberts

Genki

by Eri Banno

Genki

by Eri Et Al Banno

Tobira 1

by Mayumi Oka Et Al

Musashi

by Eiji; Terry, Charles S Yoskikawa

The Destructors

by Graham Greene; Yutaka Seo

My Side Of the Kwai Reminiscences Of an Australian Prisoner Of War Of the Japanese

by Les Atkinson

Jazz Up Your Japanese With Onomatopoeia

by Tom Gally Hiroko Fukuda

Elizabeth R Coronation Tuesday 2 June 1953

by London Transport

My Funniest Story

by Leonard; Pertwee, Roland; Wodehouse, P G; Wells, H G Merrick

Minna No Nihongo Shokyu I

by 3a Corporation

Japanese Books & Ephemera

Genki

by Banno, Eri

Flower Arrangement Art Of Japan

by Wood, Mary Cokely

Cooking the Japanese Way

by Froud, Nina

Japanese Gardens Islands Of Serenity

by Shigemori, Kanto

Hinaasobi no ki [trans.: About the Hina Doll Play]; title for Vol. II: Kaiawase no ki [trans.: Playing the Shell Game]; sub-title: Jokun eiri [trans.: Illustrated Instruction for Women]

by NAKANISHI, Naokata (or WATARAI)

Edited by Yusuishi Tanaka. Woodcut frontis. & eight fine double-page woodcut illus. 21; 18 folding leaves. Two vols. Large 8vo, orig. blue wrappers (wrappers rather worn & rubbed), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers (rubbed), new stitching. Osaka, Edo, & Kyoto: 1749. First edition of this beautifully illustrated book; the fine woodcuts are by Sukenobu Nishikawa (1671-1750 or -51 or -54), who "counts among the foremost masters of so-called ukiyo-e (primitive) prints. His subject matter,... Read more about this item

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A$11,620.50

Manuscript on paper, entitled on label on upper cover: "Washin ninjin ko" ["Thoughts about Japanese & Chinese Ginseng"]

by GINSENG

Five brush & black ink drawings of ginseng. 10 folding leaves. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: mid- to late-Edo. An attractive manuscript that describes the types of Chinese ginseng cultivated in Japan and the plants' medicinal qualities. There are a number of references to prominent Japanese herbalists including Gentatsu (or Joan) Matsuoka, Jakusui Ino, and Shu'an Kagawa. Fine copy.

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A$1,936.75

[From label on upper cover]: Ehon otsumori sakazuki 絵本おつもり盃 [Last Round for Sex]

by UTAGAWA, Toyokuni 歌川豊国 & UTAGAWA, Kunitora 歌川国虎, artists

21 double-page (one with a "trick" fold-out) & four full-page color-printed woodblock illus. 17; 12; 15 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers (rubbed), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers (not present on the first vol.), orig. stitching. [Japan]: Preface dated 1826. A remarkable and unusual shunga, which depicts a hermaphrodite (three scenes), a ménage à trois, scenes of voyeurism and masturbation, a childbirth scene, a deity with the face of a vagina, and a nun... Read more about this item

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A$14,719.30

昭和すぐれもの図鑑

by 小泉和子, 田村祥男

Collectible - Very good. Signed copy

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A$24.75

GARDEN LANDSCAPING SCROLL, JAPAN

Picture scroll, on paper, discussing & illustrating garden designs of the Muromachi period (1335-1573) in Japan. Ten large brush & ink drawings of gardens, with much manuscript text & accompanying illustrations of varieties of rocks. Scroll (365 x 6270 mm.), outer blue endpaper at beginning (paper a little wrinkled), wooden core roller. [Japan]: copies of texts written in 1395, 1475, 1509, & 1523; compiled mid-Edo. A handsomely illustrated picture scroll discussing and depicting Japanese garden... Read more about this item

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A$8,521.70

Woodblock-printed scroll of Vol. 224 of the Sutra of Perfection of Wisdom or Mahaprajnaparamitasutra, entitled in Japanese reading: "Daihannya haramitta kyo kan dai nihyaku nijuyon.

by SUTRA OF PERFECTION OF WISDOM: KASUGA-BAN

19 joined sheets, mostly 23 columns per sheet, 17 characters per column. Scroll (263 x 8301 mm. & front endpaper 230 mm.), wooden roller. [Nara: 12th-14th century]. A fine, early printed sutra, which we are unable to date. It is clearly a kasuga-ban, printed on highest-quality thick paper (gampi or mulberry fibers), with bold, thick strokes, using black sumi ink, typical of kasuga-ban printings, a term for publications of the Nara monasteries in general. The Mahaprajnaparamitasutra is a massive... Read more about this item

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A$13,169.90

Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese II Textbook [third Edition]: an Integrated Course in Elementary Japanse

by Banno Eri

Paperback. Very Good.

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A$68.75

Illustrated manuscript on paper, entitled "Kozai Fusha...zo. Kiseki fukiseki...[indecipherable name of the artist]" ["The Enjoyment of Rocks. Belonging to Kozai Fusha..."]

by GARDENS: ROCKS

24 black & white with gray wash brush drawings of rocks. 25 folding leaves (including upper wrappers). 8vo (265 x 195 mm.), orig. wrappers bound in later wrappers. [Japan]: late Edo. A finely illustrated manuscript concerned with garden rocks from the three regions (Ono, Masuda, and Yoshiki) of Hida Province (today's Gifu Prefecture). Rocks have always played a fundamental role in Japanese garden design, and because of the unique geological history of the region, the rocks from Hida have always been... Read more about this item

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A$4,260.85

Pimsleur Japanese Level 2 CDs: Learn to Speak and Understand Japanese with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive)

by Pimsleur

Opened, never used. Other. As New.

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A$271.15

驚異の石けんパワー―ナチュラルでお肌が10歳若返る!

by 宮地晴美

Very good. Some minor wrinkle on the cover All our books are disinfected and sealed in a plastic envelope before the shipping

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A$24.75

Learn Japanese through Dialogues: at the Restaurant

by Clay and Yumi Boutwell

Soft Cover. New.

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A$20.14

The Kanji Learner's Course Graded Reading Sets, Vol. 5: Kanji 701-1000

by Andrew Scott Conning

Soft Cover. New.

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A$24.79

Pacific Fury: How Australia and her Allies defeated the Japanese scourge

by Thompson, Peter

Sydney: William Heinemann. 2009. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 548 pages. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.

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A$18.00

Kanja otogi zoshi [A Companion Book for Arithmeticians]

by NAKANE, Genjun

Many woodcut illustrations, including five double-page woodcuts. 30; 29; 29 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. Kyoto: Ten'nojiya Ichirobei, 1743. First edition. "The author Nakane Genjun (1701-1761) was a Wasan and calendar scholar. He was the son of Nakane Genkei (1662-1733). This book is not a systematized Wasan book but one that is mainly compiled from mathematical recreations, featuring inserted... Read more about this item

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A$5,422.90

Zenzō honcho kokon retsujoden 全像本朝古今列女傳 [Complete Lives of Our Nation's Virtuous Women from Ancient to Modern Times]

by KUROSAWA, Sekisai (or Hirotada). 黑澤石齋

181 fine full-page woodcuts. Printed throughout in kanbun. Ten vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff blue wrappers (some rubbing), orig. block-printed title slips on upper covers (some slips a little defective), new stitching. Kyoto: Murakami Heirakuji 村上平樂寺, 1668. First edition, and very rare, of this work on the famous women of Japan. It contains brief lives of 217 celebrated Japanese women, drawn from history and legend, accompanied by 181 full-page woodcuts. It was modeled after the book of... Read more about this item

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A$14,719.30

Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf "Sakikusa ko" ["Thoughts about the Reishi Mushroom"]

by [SUIGETSU, Kan'o (pen-name SUIGETSU SHONIN)]

Two full-page richly hand-colored paintings of the mushroom. 24 folding leaves. 8vo (278 x 197 mm.), orig. decorated wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: copied after 1850. A near-contemporary manuscript copy of Suigetsu's Sakikusa ko, published in 1850; this is an early account of the lingzhi or reishi mushroom. "Ganoderma lucidum, an oriental fungus, has a long history of use for promoting health and longevity in China, Japan, and other Asian countries. It is a large, dark mushroom with a glossy... Read more about this item

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A$3,873.50

Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art: Archive I, Ephemera

by KIYOSATO MUSEUM

Illus. throughout. 511 pp. & colophon. Thick 4to, gray hardcover, title on spine. Kofu, Japan: Edition Telescope, 2023. A beautiful book devoted to post-war art ephemera, edition of 1500 copies. Text in English and Japanese. From the Foreword written by Tomoko Hirose, current steward of the collection: "The Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art was a private museum founded in 1990 by the four Ito brothers using their own personal funds. The second eldest, Shugo, resided in Kiyosato and served as the... Read more about this item

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A$232.41

[Folding Drawings of the Famous Tea Houses]

by CHASEKI OKOSHIEZU

Two sets, each of 45 individual highly complex pop-up architectural models, each model secured within a large folding envelope with a manuscript title & printed or manuscript notes regarding each model. Each set accompanied by a printed list describing each model within the sets, both lists pasted to the inside of the top of each of the two boxes. 90 envelopes (when folded, 248 x 180 mm.). The models are made from thick construction paper and preserved in the two original publisher's boxes. [Japan]:... Read more about this item

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A$27,114.50

Japan AU Mail Art Book I.

by (MAIL ART)

Many black & white illus. 199 pp. & colophon. 4to, pictorial softcover, title on spine. Hyogo, Japan: Self-published, 1982. The first volume (of three) of an important Japanese compendium of global mail art. AU - known as either Artists' Union or Art Unidentified - was a Japanese artists' organization that coordinated the earliest large-scale exhibitions of mail art in Japan. In 1976, former Gutai member Shimamoto became the head of AU. By 1982, when the first volume was published, the group had... Read more about this item

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A$697.23

On Kawara: Whole and Parts 1964-1995 (24 January-5 April 1998)

by (KAWARA, On)

Many illus. 443, [2] pp. & colophon. Thick 4to, embossed hardcover, title on spine. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998. A rare and handsomely produced On Kawara exhibition catalogue, published for the Tokyo leg of the Whole and Parts show that was previously presented in Villeurbanne, Rivoli, Barcelona, and Villeneuve d'Ascq. The catalogue consists of Japanese translations of essays from the catalogue of the same name published by Les Presses du Réel in 1996. This version is rather rare outside... Read more about this item

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A$774.70

Naika hiroku 內科秘錄 [Diagnosis and Treatment of Various Diseases]

by HONMA, Soken 本間棗軒

One finely hand-colored port. of the author & many full-page woodcuts (mostly hand-colored). 14 vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, stitched. [Mito]: Jijuntei zo 自準亭藏 et al., 1867. First edition. Honma (1804-72), a member of a distinguished family of physicians, studied under Phillip Franz von Siebold, who had brought many printed Western works on medicine and surgery to Japan. Honma also learned anesthesia from Seishu Hanaoka, the first Japanese... Read more about this item

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A$13,169.90

Ehon Kusa Nishiki 繪本草錦 [The Picture-Book of Brocade Plants]

by SEKKŌSAI KITAO TATSUNOBU (or TOKINOBU) 雪坑齋北尾辰宣

39 leaves. Two parts in one vol. 8vo, orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers a little wormed), new stitching. Osaka: Kashiwabaraya Seiemon, 1764. First edition. Sekkōsai was an artist active in Osaka, ca. 1740-50. He illustrated books and theater programs and also designed a number of prints. This is "the best of Sekkōsai's sumi-printed books, consisting of a wide range of miscellaneous pictures, some in Kanō or even Itchō style. The profile drawing of a girl wearing a kimono patterned... Read more about this item

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A$2,091.69

A collection of manuscripts & printed documents, photographs, & orig. drawings concerning the construction of the Ashio Railway

by ASHIO RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION

[Japan]: ca. 1898-1912. Copper mining at Ashio in Tochigi Prefecture began about 1600 and production continued until 1973; in the late 19th century, it produced 39 percent of Japan's copper output. At the end of that century, it was decided to build a railway connecting the mine to major rail lines to facilitate transportation of the outbound copper ore and inbound supplies (horses had carried or pulled everything before). The engineering problems were considerable: the line runs along the Watarase... Read more about this item

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A$11,620.50

Printed orihon (accordion) shunga, consisting of 28 woodblock color-printed panels, two of which have flaps to reveal a four-panel sex scene

by TEA CEREMONY MITATE (見立て) EROTICA

A total of 17 panels with color-printed woodcuts (one double-page & one four panels wide). Oblong 12mo (70 x 84 mm.), orig. wooden boards, orig. purple silk title label (but no title!) on upper cover. [Japan]: late 19th century. A very rare kind of shunga, this is an example of a mitate, an "appropriation of a classical source...then used to portray the modern, urban demi-monde."-C. Andrew Gerstle, "Shunga and Parody" in Timothy Clark et al., eds., Shunga. Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art (British... Read more about this item

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A$7,669.53

Digger's Story Surviving the Japanese POW Camps was just the beginning

by Barrett, David & Robertson, Brian

Melbourne: The Five Mile Press. 2012. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 290 pages. David "Digger" Barrett spend over three years as a POW of the Japanese. It would take more than fifty years for him to rid his mind of the hate he had for the guards of the Imperial Japanese Army. His story of courage, mateship and survival takes him from the prison camps of Thailand and Burma to the fight... Read more about this item