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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.

Japans Case Examined

by Westel W Willoughby

The Japanese

by Edwin O Reischauer

The People Of Japan

by Pearl S Buck

Japan's Cultural History

by Yutaka Tazawa

In the Wilds Of South America

by Leo E Miller

Imhotep

by Jamieson B Hurry

Tokyo

by Ron Pilling

Noguchi

by Gustav Eckstein

We Japanese

by Frederic De Garis

Meeting With Japan

by Fosco Maraini

The World Of Origami

by Isao Honda

Bushido

by Nitobe Inazo

Bushido, often translated as Way of the Warrior, came from the Samurai way of life and moral code. It emphasized loyalty, skill, moderation and honor, and became a widespread influence throughout Japan. In Shogakukan Kokugo Daijiten, the Japanese dictionary, "Bushido is defined as a unique philosophy (ronri) that spread through the warrior class from the Muromachi (chusei) period." Nitobe Inazo, in his book Bushido: The Soul of Japan, described it in this way. "...Bushido, then, is the code of moral... Read more about this item

Japan's Challenging Years

by Saburo Okita

Masami Teraoka

by Link Howard; Foreword By Richard Marshall

History Of the Empire Of Japan, Compiled and Translated For the Imperial-Japanese Commission Of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

The Kitab Masalik An-Nazar Of Sa'Id Ibn Hasan Of Alexandria

by Sidney Adams Weston

The Wars Of Japan

by Ronald L Tarnstrom

The Kokka

by The Kokka Co Yazaemoncho Kyobashiku

Norway

by Ronald Popperwell

Wa-Ei Taisho Bukkyo Seiten = the Teaching Of Buddha

by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai !! ! "' " !! I

I Am a Man, a Fiction Painting Installation, July, 1993

by Kent Chadwick

Japanese In Andaman and Nicobar Islands

by Jayant Dasgupta

Japanese History Books & Ephemera

[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:... Read more about this item

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£224.87

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... Read more about this item

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£36.43

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... Read more about this item

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£40.48

[天保壬寅元暦].[Tenpō jin'in genreki]. [Japanese Lunisolar Calendar 1861].

by [MIYAZAKI, SAKON]. 宮崎左近

伊勢)度会郡山田.. 文久元[1861].. Black and white woodblock printed, accordion style binding, decorative paper wrappers. A Japanese lunisolar calendar 文久二年 (1862) published in 文久元年 (1861). Covers insect damaged and stained in places, a little loss along blank upper margin first and last leaf, light browning, otherwise very good. Text in Japanese. 29.1 x 20.4cm. An interesting old Japanese... Read more about this item

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£119.05

An Account of Japan

by Koempfer, Engelbert [Engelbert Kaempfer]

London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co, 1853. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 264pp. Ex-library copy with the usual markings in original marbled boards, marbled edges, and original dark brown 3/4 calf leather. A very good copy, with some wear to the corners and rubbed covers and a medium size chip at the crown. Text is tight, bright, and clean.

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£303.56

Japanese Garden Design. [Godspirit in Nature: Prehistoric Origins; Gardens of the Heian Aristocrats; Gardens of Zen Buddhism; The Tea Garden; Tsubo Gardens; Edo Stroll Gardens; Design Principles; Techniques; Elements]

by Keane, Marc P. (Marc Peter) [photos, Ohashi Haruzo; design, John Einarsen, Preston Houser; callligraphy, Yoshiko Matsubara [Mastubara]

Rutland, Vermont ; Tokyo : Charles E. Tuttle, 1996., 1996. As New. 1st edition ; xiii, 184 pp. : illustrated, mostly in color ; 23 x 28 cm. ; ISBN: 0804820716 ; LCCN: 96-61007 ; OCLC: 36443246 ; LC: SB458; Dewey: 712/.6/0952; NAL: SB458.K43 ; "...[T]here is no one definitive 'Japanese garden'. instead, over the course of a 1,500 year history, various gardens were created by people inspired by different turns of events--a new religion, philosophy, or shift in social structure. By considering those... Read more about this item

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£64.76

Takahashi's Pocket Romanized English-Japanese Dictionary.

by Takahashi, Morio, 1892-1959, compiler [高橋盛雄] and Hiroshi Takahashi, reviser. ; Honjō, Tomoko

東京 : 大盛堂書房, Tokyo ; Kobe : Taiseido [Shobo Co., Ltd.], [1991], 1991. Very Good. 2nd revised ed., 8th printing ; thick beige paper wrappers ; [18]+533+[2] pp. ; OCLC: 30571580 ; very slight foxing, else VG

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£24.28

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... Read more about this item

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£20.24

The Mineral Wealth of Japan.

by [MINERAL RESOURCES OF JAPAN] MUNROE, HENRY S

Philadelphia.: American Institute of Mining Engineers. Sherman & Co., printers.. 1878.. Large folding map of Japan showing "some of the more important Mining Districts, Coal Fields etc." (small fold split without loss), tables, 67pp. Covers a little scuffed and discoloured, overall in very good condition. Scarce offprint separately paginated, of a paper included in Volume V of the Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. The author, Henry S. Munroe had been retained by the Japanese... Read more about this item

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£198.41

A Japanese Touch for Your Home. [Veranda; Screening Devices; Tatami Mats; Translucent Sliding Doors; Room for the Tea Ceremony; Japanese Way of Sitting; Lighting Techniques; The Bath; etc] “ú –[ ‚Ì Z ‚Ü ‚¢ [nihon no zumai][Japanese Dwellings]

by Yagi, Koji, 1944-; Hata, Ryoo, 1943- ; Williams, Mark B [Kinji Kuwata, Toshinori Fukaya, Masao Hayakawa, Shigezo Hirai, Masayuki Imai, Akira Irinouchi, Hiroyuki Ishida, Satohiro Kawai, Noriyoshi Kawazoe, Kazuyoshi Komachi, Tsugio Kosukegawa, Kozo Sa

Tokyo : Kodansha International ; New York : Distributed by Kodansha America, 1991, ©1982., 1991. Very Good. 1st edition, 9th printing ; 84 pp. ; illustrated (some in color) ; floor plans ; 31 cm. ; ISBN: 477001015X ; OCLC: 27762699 ; LC: NA7205 ; textured creme-tan cloth in color photographic dustjacket; textured paper endpapers ; sensitive photos ; text in English ; VG/FINE

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£38.86

New War Map of Continental Asia from Siberia to Singapore

by [WWII MAP OF ASIA] WISNER, W. H

Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune.. January 91942.. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 37.2 x 53.4 cm; 45 x 59.9 cm (sheet), inset legend, marginal browning and at the folds, lower margin with small edges tears (not affecting the caption), but remarkably bright, in very good condition. Rare map of Asia "Between Suez on the west and Shanghai on the east" showing territorial interests and theatres of war, published in the Chicago Daily Tribune in January 1942, barely two months after the Uniited... Read more about this item

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£396.82

New Map of Waters of Australasia.

by [WWII MAP OF SOUTHEAST ASIA] WISNER, W. H

Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune.. December 161942.. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 41.6 x 52.8 cm; 45 x 60 cm (sheet), inset legends, marginal browning and at the folds, but remarkably bright, in very good condition. Map of Southeast Asia published in the Chicago Daily Tribune "The World's Greatest Newspaper" delineating the Pacific theatre of war with a detailed text legend. "This is a new war map of the far east, showing an important part of southeastern Asia and Australasian waters,... Read more about this item

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£317.46

A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan. Skin-Boats. Part IV.

by NISHIMURA, SHINJI

Tokyo: The Society of Naval Architects.. 1931.. Folding map with outline colour, 2 colour and 23 black and white full page plates, xii + 248pp, very occasional browning, very light damp staining in places on cloth but overall a very good copy in pictorial gilt cloth in slightly browned dustjacket. First issued in parts between 1928 and 1930 this volume presents the complete work on Skin-Boats in a single attractive volume. .

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£502.65

The Heiké Story : A Modern Translation of the Classic Japanese Tale of Love and War. [Shin Heike Monogatari]

by Yoshikawa, Eiji, 1892-1962.吉川英治 [trans., Fuki Wooyenaka Uramatsu; illustrations, Kenkichi Sugimoto]

Boston ; Rutland, VT ; Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, 2002., 2002. As New. 13th printing ; pictorial, stiff paper wrappers ; 627 pp. ; illustrated ; 18 cm. ; ISBN: 0804833184 ; OCLC: 8830535 ; "Kyoto in the twelfth century was a magnificent city, but crime, disorder, and lust were rampant. The people were abused by the nobility, while the armed Buddhist monks terrorized court and commoner alike. In despair, the Emperor called upon the Heike and Genji clans to quell civil disturbances. Although the clans... Read more about this item

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£20.24

箋註十八史略校本: 卷2-7. [Senchū jūhasshiryaku kōhon. Kan 2-7]. [Checked Text of Summary of the Eighteen Histories. Volumes no. 2-7].

by [ZENG, XIANZHI]. 曾先之

大阪.[Osaka].: 中川勘助.[Nakagawa Kansuke].. 明治13[1880].. 6 volumes of 7. Lacks volume 1, bound in Japanese 5 hole stab binding, double leaves oriental style. Paper title labels laid down upper covers, soiling and creasing on covers, edges little soiled, occasional worming and chops, insect damage upper edge volume one, still text clean and sound. Text in Chinese with Japanese reading marks. 26 x 18.5cm. A Japanese edition of Jūhasshiryaku... Read more about this item

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£63.49

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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£19.96

No One's Perfect. 五体不満足 [King in the Wheelchair: My preschool and elementary school years; Full SPeed Ahead : My middle school, high school, and cram school years; Barrier-Free Heart : My time at Waseda University] [Gotai fumanzoku]

by Ototake, Hirotada, 1976- 乙武洋匡 [translated by Gerry Harcourt オトタケ, ヒロタダ; photo, Akimoto Takao, Ayano Makoto; jacket design, John Candell

Tokyo ; New York ; London : Kodansha International, 1998., 1998. As New. 1st edition ; 226 pp. : illustrated ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 4770025009 ; LCCN: 00-33074 ; OCLC: 43954034 ; orange and brown cloth with gold lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; "In 1976 in Tokyo, Hirotada "Oto" Ototake was born with tetra-amelia, a congenital condition leaving him with almost no arms and legs. Motivated by the idea that there are some things that only a disabled person can do, he became actively involved in a... Read more about this item

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£23.48

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... Read more about this item

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£357.14

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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£10.58

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... Read more about this item

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£64.76

立齋先生標題解註十八史畧讀本: 卷2, 3, 5-7. [Rissai Sensei hyōdai kaichū onshaku jūhasshiryaku dokuhon. Kan 2, 3, 5-7]. [Reading Text of Summary of the Eighteen Histories with Added Notes. Volumes no. 2, 3, 5-7].

by [ZENG, XIANZHI]. 曽先之

[Tokyo].: [山中市兵衛?].[Yamanaka Ichibee?].. [1878?].. Volumes 2, 3, 5-7 of 7 volumes, a Japanese edition of 18 Chinese histories classics spanning from pre-Qing to Song Dynasty. Originally edited by a Chinese scholar 曽先之 [Zeng Xianzhi] in Yuan Dynasty, it was later annotated by another Chinese scholar 陳殷 [Chen, Yin] in Ming Dynasty. This is Japanese edition compiled by 大賀富二 [Ōga Tomoji] has Japanese... Read more about this item

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£58.20

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... Read more about this item

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£22.67

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... Read more about this item

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£31.57

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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£28.33

Map of Japan.

by [JAPAN & TAIWAN - MAP] OKISHIO, TAKACHIKA

Kobe, Japan.: Fuku-In-Kwan.. 1906.. Printed colour folding map on two conjoined sheets, laid down, 73.8 x 105 cms, foxing on verso (not affecting map), single pinhole in each corner, scant spotting, small fold splits (no loss), a few soft fold creases, but in good condition. Very rare striking map of Japan published for the Western market. Created under the direction of Takachika Okishio featuring 10 inset maps: Chishima (Kurile Islands), Hokushu (Hokkaido), Ogasawara-Jima (Bonin Islands),... Read more about this item