KICHIGORO, MIYAZAKI / UMESABURO, TANAKA (Ed.):

Forty Seven Ronin [crêpe paper book]. Yokahama, Kelly & Walsh, Meiji 26 (1893).

. Small 16mo. Size: 15.9 x 11.3 cm. Lvs. (33) and one large folding coloured woodcut plate of the dramatic revenge scene (nicely restored at one fold). Japanese colophon on inside of rear cover. As issued with double folded crêpe paper leaves, silk ties. Some leaves separated. Original coloured pictorial crêpe paper wrappers, expertly restored (strengthened), front wrapper with some staining. Text in English. Comprises a preface, "a short account" (eleven pages) and fifty-four coloured woodcut illustrations with accompanied text printed within a decorated black border, of which fifty-three depict different samurais in the story of the Forty-Seven Ronin. The first woodcut of a r›nin (Asano Naganori) contains an artist signature and seal. The story known as "Chushingura" is based on a real historical incident that took place in 1703 which is about the forty-seven r›nin and their mission to avenge the death of their master, Asano Naganori. This work is printed by Muraoka Heikichi at Seishi Bunsha. Another variant was issued without the famous large folding plate.

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Book number: 120361

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KAWARASAKI KïDï:

Shiko Moyô Hyakudai (Hundred designs of the four seasons). . Four volumes. Kyoto, Uchida Bijutsu, Shôwa 13-4 (1938-9).

. Folio (33 x 23 cm). Lvs. 53 folded in the Japanese fashion. Complete in four volumes comprising 192 beautiful woodcut illustrations. First volume binding has separated into two parts. Original decorated paper covered boards, printed in different colours, somewhat rubbed, rear cover to last volume replaced. Printed paper title labels to front covers.Rare, interesting album with so many different designs, all executed in brilliant colours, several highlighted with metallic pigments. The great diversity of motifs varies from everyday subjects to more fancy themes, several with humorous elements. Fine impression, in lovely condition. The artist Kawarasak Kôdô was a a renowned Kyoto-based designer and illustrator at this time. Published by the very well-known and superior printing house Uchida in Kyoto, today still in operation. We have not found any library copy but a similar work titled: Shuko mon'yô volumes one and four (1939 & 1941) is listed at the National Diet Library.

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KIELLMAN - GOERANSON, JULIUS AXEL (TRANSLATOR):

Kina; Land och folk, skildradt efter de baesta kaellor. Stockholm (1859-60).

. Small 4to. Pp. (iv), 236. With extra engraved title and 34 beautiful steel engravings. Some foxing. One queerie loose (pp. 181-88). Contemporary cloth, red calf spine and corners, somewhat rubbed. A Swedish edition of "China u. die Chinesen ... Land und Volk.". Copy of W. von Düben.

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Book number: 28079

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KIMURA, KOUYO (Ed.):

[TEA / JAPAN] Baisa› chaki-zu (Baisa› tea wares) (Osaka), Izumiya Suezaburo, Taisho 13 (1924).

. Small 8vo. (12.6 x 20.7 cm) Lvs. (20). Leporello-folded. With many coloured woodblock illustrations, text in Japanese. Occasionally light staining. Original yellow cloth binding, title label on upper cover. Old ownership stamp on last page of colophon. Housed in the original folder. A reprint of a very rare work presenting thirty-three tea utensils owned by the renowned Buddhist monk Baisao (1675-1763). His poetry and calligraphy are considered important in the Zen history of Japan. Baisao's method of preparing tea was referred to as "sencha" (simmered tea) which is different from matcha where the tea leaves are ground into a fine powder which was more popular at the time. The worship of Baisao helped to popularise the sencha tea and led to the creation of Senchad›. The first edition was published in 1823 by Kouyo Kimura, the son of Kenkad› Kimura, celebrated artist and art connoisseur who studied the tea ceremony under Baisa›.

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Book number: 121442

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KINDAITI, KYOSUKE:

Ainu Life and Legends. Board of Tourist Industry. [Tokyo, 1941].

. Pp. 83. With coloured frontispiece and many half tones. Original wrappers. (Tourist Library: 36).

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Book number: 99539

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KIÖPING (KIOPING), NILS MATSON:

Beskrifning om en resa, genom Asia, Africa och många andra hedna länder. Förbättrad och fjerde gången uplagd. Wästerås, Joh. Laur. Horrn, 1759.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (x), 158. No free end papers. Later paper covered boards. Copy of Ericsberg. Improved fourth edition of Kiöping's famous travel account to the Far East. It was the first proper travel account published in Sweden, first published in 1667. Scarce.

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Book number: 99879

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KLAPROTH, HEINRICH JULIUS VON:

Chrestomathie mandchou, ou recueil de textes mandchou destiné aux personnes qui veulent s'occuper de l'étude de cette langue. Paris, à l'imprimerie Royale, 1828.

. Pp. xii, 24, (2), 25-100, (2), 101-273, errata (1). Text in Manchu and French. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spine gilt with title label. First edition. Klaproth (1783-1835) was a German orientalist and traveller who devoted his life to the study of Asian languages. He invented a new method of classifying different languages and dialects. This work consists of Manchu translations of various famous Chinese texts including the popular Taoist tract from the 12th century Tai Shang Ying Pian which is attributed to the Confucian scholar Lao Tse. Followed by "Éloge de la ville de Moukden" by the emperor Ch'ien Lung which he wrote after his visit to Mukden (Shenyang) in 1743 to honour the tomb of his ancestors. Included is the "Peace Treaty between China and Russia" ratified in 1728, and a chapter about the Mongol empire. Manchu, one of the official languages of the Qing dynasty (1636-1911), is an endangered Tungusic language (Tungus) spoken in Northeast China. Cordier BS 2755. Lust 1074. Zenker BO ii, 6926.

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KLAPROTH, HEINRICH JULIUS (Ed.):

Chrestomathie chinoise, publiée aux frais de la Société Asiatique. Paris, chez M. Cassin [etc.], 1833.

. 4to. Pp. (viii), Chinese title, pp. 186, (1), 15. Copy with wide margins, lithographed text within a black border. With full-page illustration on page 73. Later half sheepskin on marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, rubbed and some stains. Marbled endpapers. With neat pencil annotations (pp. 75-111). Old stain on half title and a few subsequent leaves and occasionally some light spots. First edition of this important elementary book of Chinese chrestomathy edited by the famous sinologist Klaproth. He was a German orientalist who participated in a Russian expedition to China in 1805 and later in an ethnographic and linguistic exploration of the Caucasus. From 1815 he lived in Paris where he served as professor of Asiatic languages and literature. Comprises following six works:Thaï chang Kan yng pian (Book of rewards and penalties); Wen tchhang Tsu thung ti kiun In tchy wen (Treatise on the reward of secret benefits); Tching la fung thou ki (Description of the country and usages of Tchin la or Cambodia); Hoeï lan ki (History of the chalk circle); Thsian tsu wen (Treatise in a thousand characters) and San tsu king (Book of phrases in three characters). A scarce work in the trade. Cordier BS 1683. Löwendahl 890. Zenker BO ii, 6713.

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Book number: 121255

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KLECZKOWSKI, MICHEL-ALEXANDRE LE COMTE:

Cours graduel et complet de chinois parlé etécrit. Parts i-ii in Volume one. (All publ.). Phrases de la langue parlée. Tirées del'Arte China du P. Goncalves. Paris 1876.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (viii), lxxii, part I: Partie francais pp.(ii),102; part II: Partie chinois (iv), double pages 1-115 + p.116. Many tables with Chinese characters printed in red and black. Contemporary red morocco, spine with five raised bands and title printed in gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e. Copy of Charles Schefer with his initials in gilt on upper cover. With dedication to Schefer by the author. Count Kleczkowski, former French charge d'affaires in Beijing and later professor of Chinese at the School of Oriental languages in Paris. The manual is divided into two parts, of which the first is a presentation of the Chinese language (writing, pronunciation, literature) in French. The second part comprises a Chinese - French vocabulary mainly based on Gonçalves Arte China (1829), including a word for word translation as well as made up sentences. Cordier BS 1664.Provenance: Charles Henri Auguste Schefer (1820-98), French orientalist and diplomat, who in 1857 was appointed professor of Persian at Ecole des languages Orientales.

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KNAUER, LEOPOLDINE (Transl.):

Die zerbrochenen Bildsäulen. (The Broken Images). Japanische Märchen. Tokyo, Takejiro Hasegawa, Showa 6, (1931).

. Small 18mo crêpe paper book (10.3 x 15 cm). Lvs 15, folded in the fukuro-toji style. With thirteen colour woodcut illustrations, several full page. Original wrappers, pictorial upper cover (one tiny tear at upper margin), spine covered, silk ties. A scarce title. Included in a series of 12 German books (Japanische Märchen) offered by Hasegawa/Nishinomiya in 1931. This work is translated from the English by L. Knauer (and from the Japanese into English by T.H. James). Small water staining to upper margin of two leaves otherwise in lovely condition.

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Book number: 120484

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KORÖSI, SçNDOR (ALEXANDER) CSOMA DE:

A Grammar of the Tibetan Language in English. Prepared, under the patronage of the government and the auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Calcutta, Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1834.

. 4to. Pp. xii, 204, one blank, pp. 40 with lithographed syllabic plates. The plates are numbered 1-40 but no. 15 is blank, as issued! (However we have found a library copy which has no.15 containing characters). Late 19th century half calf, spine ruled in black and with title lettered in gilt, rubbed. Front joint weakened. Marbled endpapers. Private exlibris label on front paste down (Dr. Wolfgang E. Scharlipp). Traces of front paper wrapper on inner margin of half title. Some minor browning.First edition of the first Tibetan grammar in English. Csoma de Korös (or Alexander Csoma of Koros) was a Hungarian orientalist who was known to be literate in more than ten languages. Considered the founder of Tibetology, he was one of the first Europeans to learn Tibetan. In 1819 he travelled to the East to find the old Hungarian homeland somewhere in Central Asia. But during the journey he received a book on Tibet and decided to stay in Leh and learn Tibetan. During his three trips to Tibet, he perfected the language in various monasteries with the help of local monks. He died in Darjeeling while attempting a journey to Lhasa in 1842 and a memorial was erected in his honour by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Rare. Cordier BS 2930. Yakushi (1984) C160. Vater p. 400. Not in Löwendahl.

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Book number: 121453

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KREITNER, GUSTAV / STUXBERG, ANTON (Translator):

I Fjerran Östern. Reseskildringar från Indien, Kina, Japan, Tibet och Birma. Stockholm 1885.

. Pp. viii, 648. With one large folding map and 197 illustrations. Original pictorial cloth printed in gold and black. Bookplate. Old signature. A narrative of Count Béla Széchenyi's expedition to East- and Central Asia 1877-80 by the expedition's geographer Gustav Kreitner. The voyage went to India, China, Japan, Tibet and Burma. Includes information about the Ainu in northern Japan. A lovely copy. Cf Cordier BI 422, BJ 705 & BS 2143.

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Book number: 99743

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[NAGASAKI - ENGRAVING]. KRUSENSTERN, ADAM JOHANN VON:

[Russian title]. Ansicht von Megasaky. Tab. LVIII. St. Petersburg 1814.

. Copper engraved plate on strong paper. Image (including text) size: 51.5 x 35.5 cm. The plate depicts a view of Nagasaki harbour with a few Japanese junks anchored in front of settlements along the shore. In the foreground a small boat carrying some members of the Russian delegation including Krusenstern and three Chinese men. This is one of the earliest accurate images of Nagasaki. Water staining at margins, heavy at lower margin but not affecting the image.The plate is included in Krusenstern's account of the first Russian circumnavigation 1803-6. The expedition stayed for about six months at Nagasaki hoping to negotiate trade agreements between the countries and study the local natural history. At this time Japan was almost completely isolated from the rest of the world, only the port of Nagasaki being accessible (or Dejima to the Dutch). However, the Russians were never invited to come ashore. Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius, a German naturalist and engraver, participated as doctor and marine biologist on the expedition. During the voyage he contributed with numerous sketches and water colours. This engraving is made after his drawing.

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Book number: 120967

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KUNDÍ, SAWADA (Ed.) / SAWADA, SIICHIRO (Artist):

Ch sen ko t jiki-sh Collection of antique Korean ceramics. Kyoto, Uns›do, Taisho 13 (1924).

. Oblong album with 32 leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. With thirty double-page illustrations of Korean ceramics and/or porcelain. Beautiful woodcuts printed in various gentle colours with captions in Japanese. Some discolouration. Original decorated paper wrappers, lightly rubbed with some minor chipping along edges. Old ex-owner's sticker (partly erased) on front cover. Black ink inscription on the spine. The album contains beautiful designs of old Korean pottery wares such as urns, jars, bowls, plates and tiles. Most of them are from the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392 AD) but some are from the Three Kingdoms period (57BC - 668 AD) and the later Silla period (668-935 AD). Korea, along with China, was the earliest country to produce high-fired stoneware. During the Three Kingdoms wares were produced in a tunnel-shaped wood-fired climbing kiln with a temperature more than 1000 degrees C. The chamber enabled an oxygen control. The characteristic soft gray colour of the stoneware of the Three Kingdoms period is the result of the reduction of oxygen in the chamber. The pottery became hard and non-porous. The finest works of ceramics in Korea, Cheongia (celadon) wares, were produced in the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). This work based on field studies of Korean ceramics was published at a time when interest of folk art was increasing in Japan. Mingei, developed in 1920s, was a movement with the aim of preserving folk art in Japan. The movement was initiated by Yanagi S›etsu, a Japanese philosopher and aesthete who travelled to Korea in 1916 and there discovered common wares made by local Korean artisans. He established a Korean Folk Craft Museum in Seoul. 

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Book number: 121249

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TAM WING KWONG [MAHJONG]:

The Game of Sparrow as played in China. With the history of Maa Jong appendixed. Second revised edition. Hong Kong, Wiing Fat & Co., 1925.

. 12mo. (17 x 13.5 cm). Pp. 71. With many textual illustrations. Original stapled cloth-backed printed boards, re-sewn and with new spine. An informative guide to the popular Chinese game, explicitly written for foreign players. Second, revised and enlarged edition, first 1923. "The sole object of this booklet is to represent to the foreign players the rules of scoring which are invariably accepted and observed by the players in most of the Chinese clubs in Hongkong" (introduction).

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Book number: 120922

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