Author: MIKI, TEICKI (TEIICHI) & TAKAHASHI, GORÍ (Transl.):
Title: Nihon kokon meika zukai. Short Biographies of Emineni [sic] Japanese in Ancient and Modern Times, each with a Characteristic Illustration. Two volumes (all publ.). Tokyo, Kyushun-d›, Meiji 20 & 23 (1887 & 1890).TOGETHER WITH: Pictorial Descriptions of Famous Places of Japan in Japanese and Chinese. Volume one (all publ.) Tokyo, Kyushun-d›, (1888).
Description: . A rare collection of the three volumes containing twenty biographies of celebrated Japanese people and ten famous places of Japan. According to the preface the editors originally planned to print ten volumes in this series but us we understand only these three volumes were published. The first two volumes devoted to renowned Japanese people consist of forty-four leaves with twenty double-page colour woodcut illustrations. Text in English and the illustrations have captions in English and Japanese (Kanji). Leaves are folded in the Japanese manner (fukuro-toji). Original wrappers, printed paper labels on upper covers. First edition. Another version with bilingual text was published simultaneously. Includes the following short life stories of significant persons throughout Japanese history:Iwakura Tomomi, an important 19th century statesman; Murasaki Shikibu or "Lady Musakas", born in the 10th century was the famous authoress of "The story of Genji"; Sugawara no Michizane also known as Kan Sh›j› was a learned scholar, novelist and politician in the Heian period (9th century); Prince Sh›tuko who died A.D. 620 was a great statesman and created the first laws of Japan; Saig› Takamori was an influential samurai of the Satsuma daimo in the 19th century; Minamoto no Yoshiie, an 11th century renowned samurai and governor-general of the Mutsu province; Takenouchi no Sukune, an acclaimed hero-statesman of the first century; Empress Jingu, a legendary Japanese empress who ruled in the third century; Yamato Takeru or Prince Ousu (ca 72-114), a renowned Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty; Wage no Kiyomaro (Minamoto), 8th century learned man from Bizen; Taira no Shigemori (1138-79), a samurai; H›j› Tokimune, a minister and military of the Kamakura shogunate in the 13th century; Kusunoki Masashige (1294-1336), a samurai of the Kamakura period; Kato Kiyomasa (1562-1611) a Japanese daimyo of the Azuchi-Monoyama and Edo periods; Emperor Nintoku, the 16th legendary emperor of Japan, believed to have lived ca 313-99; Taira no Masakudo, Heian period samurai (he died 940); Minamoto no Yoritamo, the first samurai of the Kamakura Shogunate (12th century); Madenokoji Fujifusa (1296-1380) nobleman in the Kamakura period; Aoto Fujitsuma (1192-1333) minister of the Kamakura Shogunate; Yui Shosetsu (1605-51, military strategist "Three Great Ronin", not a samurai.The third volume about famous places consists of sixty-three pages of text and ten double-page colour woodcut illustrations. Text in English, Japanese and Chinese. Large 8vo. Leaves folded in the Japanese manner (fukuro-toji). Original Japanese style binding, green wrappers, printed labels on covers. With red Asian stamps on titles (Sohgo). The famous places are: The Asakusa Temple; Mount Yoshino in Nara; Yokohama; the Cataract-Kegon Falls; the Kinkaku-ji or Golden Temple in Hyoto; the Kamo River; Mount Tsukuba; the Island of E[noshima]; the Island o Itsuku; and Tokyo. Most of them are signed in the plate by Ogata Gekk› or Kobayashi Eitaku. 100645

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, history, historical, shoguns, biography, biographical,


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