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Ephemera - an Advertising Brochure for the Rokkosan Hotel of Kobe Japan C1950's

Kobe, Japan: Rokkosan Hotel, 0. Ephemera. B&W Photographs; this is a trifold brochure (one half-sized page of cardstock which has been folded three times) which extolls the virtues of the Rokkosan Hotel of Kobe Japan. c1950. The Japanese text is accompanied by black and white photographs of ammenties, including dining areas and local sites. The hotel was built in 1929, and according to it's website: "Rokkosan Hotel is one of “Heritage of Industrial Modernization”recognized by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Hand-made apple pie has been part of the hotel’s special recipes since 1962. The hotel's restaurants offer a variety of culinary choices including authentic French cuisine featuring Kobe Beef and "Jingisukan" grilled mutton barbecue. The hotel highlights a glittering “10-Million Dollar” night view of Kobe and Osaka.". Near Fine .

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Katalog: Japan

Sonstige Stichworte: Ephemera Japan Hotels Advertising brochure Rokkosan Hotel Kobe, Japan ephemera

CHAMBERLAIN, BASIL HALL

Things Japanese Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan

London / Toyko: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd. / the Hakubunsha, Ginza, 1890. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and fraying. The spine joints have rubbing and fraying as well, and there are several spots of discoloration to both front and rear covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright. Both front and rear inner hinges have pulling or are cracked. This copy includes an inked notation by a previous owner on the front endpaper and also has a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the front endpaper and front pastedown page. "Basil Hall Chamberlain (18 October 1850 – 15 February 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. (Others included Ernest Satow and W. G. Aston. ) He also wrote some of the earliest translations of haiku into English. He is perhaps best remembered for his informal and popular one-volume encyclopedia Things Japanese, which first appeared in 1890 and which he revised several times thereafter. His interests were diverse, and his works include an anthology of poetry in French. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

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Buchzahl: 37569

Katalog: Japan

Sonstige Stichworte: Japan Basil Hall Chamberlain Japanese History Japanese Society

HAVEN, VIOLET SWEET

Gentlemen of Japan a Study in Rapist Diplomacy

Chicago, IL: Ziff Davis Publishing Company, 1944. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have some beginning bumping. The covers of the book have some light spots of ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. "Violet Haven inherited an itching foot from her Irish father, and outdid him in her restless speedings from one part of the world to the other. Her life makes good reading, for the armchair traveler with a bias towards the Far East, for it is in the Orient that she finds herself most deeply rooted. Her childhood, acquiring an education against odds; her teaching jobs, which took her to Hawaii and to Japan; and journalism -- with intervals outside -- which took her round the world and back." "Hideki Tojo (December 30, 1884 – December 23, 1948) was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) , the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 27th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from October 17, 1941, to July 22, 1944. As Prime Minister, he was responsible for ordering the attack on Pearl Harbor, which initiated war between Japan and the United States, although planning for it had begun in April 1941, before he entered office. After the end of the war, Tojo was arrested and sentenced to death for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, and hanged on December 23, 1948.". Very Good+ .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Japan Violet Sweet Haven World War II Prime Minister Of Japan The Orient Japan

HEARN, LAFCADIO

Lotos -Blicke in Das Unbekannte Japan (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan)

Frankfurt, Germany: Rutten & Loening, 1906. Limited Edition. Leather. B&W Illustrations; Vellum covers with gilt and black decorations and lettering. Limited Edition. Book number #348. Text is completely in GERMAN. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book is covered in Vellum and has black, and gilt decorations and gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. The book is in generally clean condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are generally clean, but do have noticeable foxing throughout. The top edges of the text pages have some tide marking. "Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904) , known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo , was a writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in that city." "In 1890, Hearn went to Japan with a commission as a newspaper correspondent, which was quickly terminated. It was in Japan, however, that he found a home and his greatest inspiration. Through the goodwill of Basil Hall Chamberlain, Hearn gained a teaching position during the summer of 1890 at the Shimane Prefectural Common Middle School and Normal School in Matsue, a town in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum and his old residence are still two of Matsue's most popular tourist attractions. During his fifteen-month stay in Matsue, Hearn married Koizumi Setsu, the daughter of a local samurai family, with whom he had four children. He became a naturalized Japanese, assuming the name Koizumi Yakumo, in 1896 after accepting a teaching position in Tokyo. After having been Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and, later on, Spencerian, he became Buddhist. ". Very Good .

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Katalog: Japan

Sonstige Stichworte: Japan Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Lifestyle Limited Editions German Language

HILDRETH, RICHARD

Japan and the Japanese

Boston, MA: Bradley, Dayton & Co, 1861. Revised Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and fraying, along with a couple of tears to the cloth of the dust jacket and some chipping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown page. " Richard Hildreth (June 28, 1807 – July 11, 1865) , was an American journalist, author and historian. He is best known for writing his six-volume History of the United States of America covering 1497–1821 and published 1840-1853. Historians consider it a highly accurate political history of the early Republic, but with a strong bias in favor of the Federalist Party and the abolition of slavery. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Katalog: Japan

Sonstige Stichworte: Japan Richard Hildreth Japanese History Social Issues

JOYA, MOCK

Mock Joya's Things Japanese

Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo News Service, 1971. 6th Revised Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some ground-in dirt to the top edge of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright, but has a long thin chip missing from the bottom spine end. "Mock Joya, the author of "Things Japanese", was a veteran journalist in Japan. Born in 1884, he was graduated from the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages in 1904, and worked in the journalistic field, having served as a reporter on the staff of The New York World and also as editor of The Japan Times. His name is known to every student of Japan. For over forty years he has written on "Things Japanese" and at the time of his death in August 1963, was still contributing his column of the same name to The Japan Times. " (Things Japanese website). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 39763

Katalog: Japan

Sonstige Stichworte: Japan Mock Joya Culture Social Issues Dictionary Glossaries Japan

MISHIMA, SUMIE SEO

My Narrow Isle the Story of a Modern Woman in Japan

New York, NY: The John Day Company, 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is in generally clean condition, but has a noticeable water stain to the bottom half of book covers. The stain only affects the cloth of the book, and not the underlying structure. There is some light wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several smallish edge tears, nicks and small spots of rubbing and wear, along with a couple of small chips missing. The spine of the book has noticeable toning. "Miss Sumie Seo, later Mrs. Sumi Mishima, attended Wellesley as Class of 1927. She came to America after graduating from Tsuda College. Before coming to Wellesley, she studied at Dana Hall in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Studies at Wellesley: History and English LiteratureOther Institutions: Tsuda College, Dana Hall (Wellesley, MA) After Wellesley...Taught at Tsuda College Married Mr. Hajime Mishima, Professor of Chinese studies, and had four children English translation of a volume of legal documents of 18th/19th century Japan (1968, Society for International Cultural Relations) Translated many books for Iwanami publishing in the Foreign Rights Department, and translated for Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (International Culture Foundation) Published 2 autobiographies in English: "My Narrow Isle" (1941) and "The Broader Way" (1953) " (from Wellesly College). Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Katalog: Japan

Sonstige Stichworte: Japan Sumie Seo Mishima Patriarchy Women's Studies Japanese Women Biography

PALMER, MRS. J. W. (EDITOR)

International Women's Club of Yokohama Bulletin

Yokohama, Japan: Motomachi Printing Services / International Women's Club of Yokohama, 1936. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Pamphlet. B&W Illustrations; February 1936 bulletin - from a periodical which was issued monthly. This is a trade sized pamphlet with medium cardstock covers and a stapled binding. The pamphlet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The cardstock covers have some light bumping and beginning edge wear along with some beginning darkening / toning to the spine ends. There are several little pin hole nicks / dents to the lower spine end that look like cat nibbles. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, though there is some scattered foxing throughout. The bulletin includes information on upcoming and just finished events (in this case, the death of King George V disrupted a violin and piano recital) , lectures given - with summary (last month it was by Prof. T Okada on the subject: The Manyoshu, the oldest collection of Japanese poetry) , an outing to an exhibition of Noh Dancing, with lecture (lecture notes included) , a detailed biography of Vasili Vasilievich Vereshagin (artist) , Library Notes - a small section of book reviews and a section of advertising for a number of wonderfully European goods found in the Yokohama area. "The Yokohama International Women's Club (YIWC) was founded in 1929 at the Hotel New Grand, for the "promotion of International goodwill through cultural and social activities". Today, it is a volunteer group of English-speaking Japanese and foreign women.". Very Good .

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Katalog: Japan

Sonstige Stichworte: Japan Mrs. J. W. Palmer International Women's Club of Yokohama Yokohama, Japan Societies Social Clubs World History

WILSON, ROBERT A. AND BILL HOSOKAWA

East to America a History of the Japanese in the United States

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0688036953. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by both authors. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed on the title page by both authors. There is a presentation bookplate from the Japanese American Citizens League on the reverse of the recent books page. The dust jacket has some edge wear, rubbing and nicking / small edge tears to the spine ends. There is an inch long semi-closed tear to the top rear panel of the dust jacket. "Bill Hosokawa (1915–2007) was a journalist and author who was a pioneering but controversial chronicler of the Japanese American experience whose Nisei: The Quiet Americans, the first popular history of Japanese Americans, was published in 1969. A longtime columnist for the Japanese American Citizens League's (JACL) Pacific Citizen newspaper, Hosokawa took a controversial stand against redress in the 1970s, but later supported redress and the presidential apology that came with the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by All Authors. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 44386

Katalog: Japan

Sonstige Stichworte: 0688036953 Japan Robert A. Wilson Bill Hosokawa Signed Editions Japanese Americans American History