[Rarebooks] OFFER: JAPAN AND AMERICA SINCE PERRY. A SHORT LIST.

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1.	~ANON. ALBUM: ~INTER-HEMISPHERE NON-PRO BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP. 1950.~ 
NBC[Japanese Baseball Association] NP. Photograph album, with 30 inserted 
photos, 11 x 15.5 cm. each, all are captioned in Japanese and English. Many 
photographs show the enthusiastic greeting by the Japanese of the 
"Capeharts"- the American team. They apparently played at Japanese teams in 
Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. One team they played, was the"all Kanebo" team. 
There is one shot that is a panorama made up oif two photographs which are 
folded. Mrs. MacArthur throws out the first ball. This is a "bird's 
Eyeview" of Korakuen Stadium with a game in progress. Unnoted at OCLC. ~In 
a silk brocade album, silk ties, Fine.~ $850.00~

2.	~BOSTWICK LIEUT. F.M.:~ OYUCHASAN. ~Tokyo : Hasegawa Takejiro shoten, 
1890. 22 Pp.11 sheets] ,19 cm. Illustrated in color throughout by color 
woodcut on hosho paper. Entirely illustrated except for three Pp. of text 
only. The woodblock ae primarily of pretty girls. The Lieutenant's name 
should have been"Pinkerton". He is a lover and exploiter of Japanese 
women-the theme of the song. This also includes many Japanese words, i.e. a 
girl's reply to the author in Japanese which he spoke with a vile accent: " 
Watashi wa wakarimasen." I don't understand." Sharf,18/19,  P. 68, OCLC 
notes only one copy and that in Europe. ~A Fine copy.~ $400.00~

3.	~BURNETT, FRANCES H. C.(Hawks Cameron) [chosakusha Furansesu Etchi Shi 
Banetto]. ~NISSEIJO [SONGS OF SUN AND STARS]. ~Tokyo, H. Uji, 1921 , Taisho 
10. 2 pl. (1 col., 1 mounted) 2 port. [2], [2], [2], [4], [6], [6], [38]. 
The title is in Japanese, only, forward and the series of prefaces signed 
by various Japanese dignitaries and the author in both English and 
Japanese. The Japanese is always in the calligraphy of the author. The body 
of the book consists of poetry by the author in Japanese with English 
translations on facing pages, all in her calligraphy. Burnett came to Japan 
as the wife of Colonel Charles Burnett the military attaché to the American 
embassy. She had written poetry in English. When she arrived she studied 
Japanese language, calligraphy and poetry. She astounded the Japanese when 
she submitted poetry to the Ut Gokai Ujime 'The great poetry party" held by 
the imperial court since the 9th century and her Japanese poetry and 
calligraphy were viewed with astonishment and great favor by all 
practitioners of the art and its critics. Burnett was considered  a unique 
person by the Japanese and by Americans who knew her. She  was the only one 
who became a poet in the Japanese language of real standing in Japan. She 
published two other books of her poetry in Japanese, the last in 1928. One 
of the photographs in the book shows her dressed as Lady Murasaki, the 
great early Japanese novelist and poet, surely sacrilege if she had not 
been remarkable herself. The book is without doubt a private printing for 
presentation only. It is bound in flexible silk brocade, silk ties ands has 
a lengthy, intimate presentation to the American secretary of War and his 
wife in English and in Japanese dated February 22nd, 1925. The book 
undoubtedly had a chitsu [slip case] but that did not come with it. Copies 
at LNN and SRLF of Melvyl, There are no copies in OCLC, HLS, NYP, YUS, 
CIC[Big 10 Universities,  Plus U. of Chicago, Penn and Duke]. ~Fine copy. 
~$875.00~

4.	~COVELL, JON ETTA HASTINGS CARTER ~ UNDER THE SEAL OF SESSHU- [by] Jon 
Carter Covell, PH. D. ~New York City, Privately  printed for the author by 
the De Pamphilis Press, inc., 1941. xii, 163 p., 1 l. 18 pl. on 10 l. 24 
cm. An enlarged edition was issued in New York by a commercial press in 
1975. The most important piece of work on Sesshu written in a Western 
language. It was presented for a PH D. at Columbia, but the author was also 
advised by other scholars in Princeton, Japan, Hawaii, and by Mr. Ledoux, 
the great collector who was still alive. First Edition. This copy has the 
author's name scrawled across the front free EP in ink. It is a rarity on 
the market. ~VG. ~$350.00~

5.	~GOODRICH, LLOYD:~ YASUO KUNIYOSHI RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION March 27 to 
May 9, 1948. ~Whitney Museum oif American Art, 1948. 55 Pp. Pictorial 
flexible covers printed red and black on gray, numerous full page and half 
page plates after paintings and some drawings. Signed in full on the title 
page by the artist. Arguably the finest Japanese painter of the 20th 
century, certainly in the Western tradition. He was a famous man in the is 
country and the "king" of Woodstock New York, the summer home of the Art 
Students league and a major artist's colony since the founding at the turn 
of the twentieth century of "Birdcliffe" an American William Morris 
artist's settlement complete with workshops, gallery and theatre. During 
the depression many New York artists moved there and lived "on the Maverick 
[road] and managed to get by on some combination  of WPA art project, 
barter of their art for local produce, and  private grants and support from 
the very few still solvent collectors. He was a celebrity in his time in 
New York and Woodstock, where, 30 years after his death, art world climbers 
showed their "class" by using his nickname"Yas".  Although Kuniyoshi's 
entire art training took place in America, he was born and grew up in 
Japan, and there were traits in his work which remained Japanese all his 
life. He even did some flower and bird paintings, or their equivalent. He 
often had a cow in these [he was born in the year of the cow]. His 
paintings of people of European descent, usually had some East Asian 
qualities. All of his work, modernist, though he was, was connected to 
Japanese pictorial traditions.~ This copy is signed boldly in full at the 
base of the title page. A realist with both naif and cubist influences. One 
of the few poetic "voices" of his generation in the USA, and arguably the 
finest 20th century Japanese artist.~ A Fine copy. ~ $575.00~

6.	~GREEY, EDWARD :~ THE GOLDEN LOTUS AND OTHER LEGENDS OF JAPAN. / Cover 
Designed by the Author.  ~Boston Lee & Shepherd Co. New York, Charles T. 
Dillingham, 1883. 145, [2] Pp. Those last pages an Ad for Greey's shop 
where he sells Japanese art and curios in New York. Greey had been a long 
term resident of Japan. Spoke, read and wrote Japanese, and had studied 
Japanese painting in Japan. Opposite the title page is a long inscription 
to "Aunt Louisa from her Nephew's Friend, the Author, dated Dec. 21, 1887." 
On the preface sheet, which he signs in type, below he has penned his name 
in full. In original cloth, decorative design of black and gold on red, 
Very Good. ~$300.00~


7.	~HEARN, LAFCADIO :~ GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN ~ Boston 1894, 
Houghton.First Edition First Issue black cloth, very good, 2 vols., 
PrintingHoughton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1894. 20.4 cm., 
8vo. Includes these essays : My First Day in the Orient, the Writing of 
Kobo Daishi, Jizoh, A Pilgrimage to Enoshima. At the Market of the Dead. 
Bon-Odori. The Chief City of the Province of the Gods. Kitauki: The Most 
Ancient Shrine in Japan. In the Cave of the Children's Ghost. At Mionoseki. 
Notes on Kitzuki. At Hinomisaki. Shinjuu., Yaegaki-Jinja. KJitsune. In a 
Japanese Garden. The Household Shrine. Of Women's Hair. From the Diary of 
an English Teacher. Two Strange Festivals. By the Japanese Sea. Of a 
Dancing-Girl. From Hoki to Oki. Of souls. Of Ghosts and Goblins. The 
Japanese Smile. Sayonara. These are his earliest, and may be his finest 
writings about Japan. First Edition, First Printing. BAL 7926., rare in 
this condition.~ Bound in black silver decorated cloth, TEG,  Fine 
condition  corners and extremities not rubbed.~ $600.00~

8.	~NAGAWU, TSUTOMU: ~[PHOTO ALBUM] NAGASAKI CITY . ~1951. 29.9. x  29.5 . 
32Pp. Inserted photos. Word of Presentation to the Mayors and heads of 
Chambers of Commerce of Pacific Coast [American] Cities signed by Tsutomu 
Nagawu, Mayor of Nagasaki City, his photograph inserted above. The next 31 
pages carry inserted printed captions and a variety of photographs of the 
city's, main festivals, attractions and buildings, including the city 
hall.  There is only one discordant note in all of this, the photograph of 
the ruins of the Urakami Catholic Church which it is noted was destroyed in 
an atomic raid.  The photographs emphasize the beauty of the city and its 
site, with panoramic night photographs and ancient temples.  The last two 
pages[ Pp. 32-33] show: "Atomic clouds ten minutes after the explosion" and 
a folding panorama entitled: "General view of the atomic damages area taken 
about 1 month after the explosion [O marks the spot]."  This is thus an 
album meant to remind American minor officials and boosters of the 
victimized status of  the city and of America's role in it.  The 
photographs are in fact very eloquent, and all Japanese special pleading 
aside, truly do give an idea of the horror of such promiscuous warfare 
targeting all, soldier and civilian, all buildings, sacred and profane. One 
Can presume an issue of no more than 250 copies.  Unnoted on RLin, OCLC, 
Melvyl, CIC, H, Stanford, HRH, NYPL.~ Velvet binding dusty and rubbed at 
corners and the top and bottom of spine with very minor losses at both 
hinges at the crown of the album  A very few plates show insufficient 
washing, and subsequent discoloration. The most important ones, either for 
beauty or horror are in great shape. ~ $1150.00~

9.	~OGAWA, KIKUCHI ~MEETING AT THE SEIYOKEN, UENO PARK, JULY 22RD, 1901 IN 
HONOR OF THE CEREMONY OF THE UNVEILING OF THE PERRY MONUMENT AT KURIHANA ON 
JULY 23RD, 1901.   ~Tokio, Japan, 1901. Present were : Mr. J,. Urata, Asst 
Mayor of Tokio, Mr. M. Sato, Asst.  Mayor of Tokio, Fleet Engineer H. 
Takeda, Lieutenant Sellers, Rear Admiral K. Yendo, Mr. T, Minami, Manager 
of Kihin Kwai[Welcome Society], Captain M.Kaburaki, Lieutenant Poundstone, 
Mr. Ferguson, Second Secretary of the Legation, Mt.M Takaki, PH D., 
Lieutenant Key, Mr. G. Hagiwara Secretary of the Tokio Chamber of Commerce, 
Mr. C. Matsuwura Councillor of Tokio Fu, Lieutenant Fullinwider, Mr.H. 
Matsuda Mayor of Tokio, Rear Admiral Kimotsuki, Baron E. Shibusawa, 
President of  Tokio Chamber of Commerce, Baron T Senge, Governor of Tokio 
Fu, Rear Admiral Beardslee, Captain Sperry, Mr. S. Sakamoto, Secretary of 
Tokio Fu, Mr. M. Yamamura, Manager of Beiyu Kiokwai. They are photograsphed 
in a symmetrical setting of a large window with three semicircular tops, 
among columns. This is the official photograph of the event, and is an 
Ogawa mount. The photograph is 20 x 28 cm.~ With as long printed 
description pasted to the rear of the mat. Lightly faded, OW VG.~ $1150.00~
	
10.	~SADAHIDE, GOUNTEI, ARTIST; HASHIMOTO GYOKURAN AUTHOR: ~YOKOHAMA KAIKO 
SHINBUN SHI [INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPENING OF THE PORT OF YOKOHAMA]. ~16 
Pp., of illustrations with roman numbers, 8 sheets Japanese text, 5 Pp. 
woodblock text in English, giving short explanations of the illustrations. 
This book, an album selected from the First Series. Same title slip & 
covers as the full 6 volume series, unlike it, no volume number printed on 
the slip. Undated, but early Meiji, Ca. 1870 [Meiji 3] reprint, from the 
original blocks, Fine printings, VG state. Subjects include: whaling[2Pp. 
Pl.], deep sea fishing [4-2Pp. Pls.], Walrus hunting [2Pp. Pl.], ordinary 
household activities. With plate descriptions IN ENGLISH! A Japanese plate 
description:  "The Lewd woman at the American land to be opposite to large 
mirror and to make a figure now than he walking the town." ~This edition 
unrecorded in the West, in any library. Not in RLIn, OCLC, NUC, Toda, 
Wasson, Spencer, BL, Bib. Nat.  Unnoted in Kokusho somokuroku, the final 
authority in Japanese printing, similar to ESTC, since it stops with Meiji. 
But unnoted in National Diet Library. ~Original wraps, title slip, Very 
Good.~ $3,750.00~

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