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Tokyo, Japan: The Bureau of Reconstruction, 1929. Original blue buckram, gilt lettered spine, top edge gilt. Tan mottled endsheets. The great earthquake in Japan on September 1, 1923, accompanied by conflagrations that broke out in various parts of the city almost simultaneously, reduced to ashes in a single night the greater portions of Tokyo and Yokohama. This book is a record of the reconstruction of Tokyo and Yokohama, a gigantic work unparalleled in the history of city planning of the world. 219 pages with historic photographs. Bound in at the rear of the book are six large fold-out colored maps. With tissue-guarded facsimile of the Imperial Edict on Reconstruction. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
The Outline of the Reconstruction Work in Tokyo & Yokohama (An Official Report) by Compiled by the Bureau of Reconstruction - 1929
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The Outline of the Reconstruction Work in Tokyo & Yokohama (An Official Report)
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Japan: The Bureau of Reconstruction Home Office, 1929. Cloth. Very Good. The uncommon 1929 official report of the outline of reconstruction work in Tokyo and Yokohama in response to the lethal earthquake which struck in the early morning hours of Sept. 1st, 1923. This earthquake was one of the most powerful in recorded history, measuring a 7.9 in magnitude, and devastated Tokyo and the port city of Yokohama. Accounts indicate the duration of the quake was anywhere between 4 to 10 minutes. This report, its first appearance in book form, is solid and VG to VG+ in its blue cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the spine. Light spotting to the fore-edge and minimal wear along the gutters. 6 detailed fold-out maps at the rear, dozens of crisp black-and-white photos thruout. A Preface (an "Imperial Edict on Reconstruction"), each page protected by its original glassine tissue-guard, was issued by the Emperor and was signed "Imperial Sign manual/Prince Regent's Sign Manual". Text in English.
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- Publisher The Bureau of Reconstruction Home Office
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- Date Published 1929
- Keywords rare Japanese history, rare earthquake history, major urban reconstruction efforts, rare urban planning
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THE OUTLINE OF THE RECONSTRUCTION WORK IN TOKYO & YOKOHAMA
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The Outline of the Reconstruction Work in Tokyo and Yokohama. (an Official Report)
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Bureau of Reconstruction Home Of, 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Slipcase shows light shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.
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The Outline of the Reconstruction Work in Tokyo and Yokohama. (An official Report)
by SAKATANI, Yoshio (introduction by) (Compiled By the Bureau of Reconstruction Home Office, and the Tokyo Institute for Municipal Research)
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Tokyo, Japan: Bureau of Reconstruction Home Office Japan, 1929. orig. cloth. Title in gilt lettering on spine, with 2 narrow gilt borders at spine-ends. (vi), (ix), [1](list of maps, verso blank), 219pp. ills. on plates, many text-ills, facsim. of the original imperial edict on reconstruction on [4]pp. with tissue-guards, many tables in text and full-p. mainly at end, 6 large fold. maps and plans at end of volume, with loosely inserted the complimentary card of Nozomu Nakagawa, Director of the Bureau of Reconstruction, Home Office, Imperial Japanese Government. A complete official report of the reconstruction of Tokyo & Yokohama, stricken by an earthquate 1st September 1923. It was a gigantic work, unparalleled in the history of city planning of the world. The report does not only supply vas information on the technical side of the reconstruction-work but also on the financing of the undertaking by foreign aid from the U.S.A.(US.dollar loan), England, private & commercial reconstruction…
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