OGAWA, KAZUMASA (Photogr. & Ed.): - Military Costume in Old Japan. Photographed by K. Ogawa, under direction of Chitora Kawasaki and Ko-yu-kai (Tokyo Fine Art School). Tokyo 1893.

. Folio. Pp. preface (iv) and fifteen b/w plates (chemigraphs) with descriptive text in English below each photo. Original pictorial wrappers bound in somewhat later half red calf, lightly rubbed. Bookplates. First edition. Deals with military costumes and armour from the Fujiwara epoch to the end of the Ashikaga period. The plates are reproduced photographs taken by Ogawa, Japan's leading photographer at the time, and printed by National Chemigraph Co. in St. Louis, USA. A beautiful and clean copy.

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