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[DE BECKER, JOSEPH ERNEST]: The Nightless City, or the "History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku", by an English Student of Sociology. Yokohama, Z.P. Maruya & Co. Ltd., 1899.
Pp. (vi), iv, (2), 441, (3), xix, (3). With 20 plates including 9 coloured, of which 7 folding beautiful chromolithographs, and many textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, tooled in gilt, spine slightly faded, new endpapered. Occasionally some light staining. First edition of this informative work about the Geisha quarters in Tokyo. The author, De Becker, an English lawyer came to Japan in 1887. He assumed Japanese nationality after a few years and in 1894 he set up a legal practice in Yokohama. After the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 he moved his practice to Kobe where he lived until his death. This controversial work describes the Yoshiwara Yukwaku and its organization, manners and ceremonies as well as its legal constraints and medical aspects. Not in Cordier. Nipponalia (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies) 1067. Wenckstern ii, 341.
Offered for EUR 1200.00 = appr. US$ 1894.80 by: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books - Book number: 35111
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