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Ehon Kinsei Nihon Nenkei
Tsuchiya, Ikunosuke [Sudō, Nansui] [edited by]; Ichiōsai [Utagawa], Kunimatsu [illustrated by].
Tōkyō : Shimizu Kahē, [publishing permission received in Meiji 16 (1883)]. First edition.
A charming accordion-folding chronology of important events in Japan from 1844 to 1882, highly illustrated with delicate copperplate-engraved vignettes. The delightful little work ...
Eiri Nichiyō Onna Chōhōki (An Illustrated Handbook on Daily Life for Women)
Eiri Nichiyō Onna Chōhōki ["An Illustrated Handbook on Daily Life for Women"]
Ōi, Eijo [illustrated by]; Takai, Ranzan [text by].
Ōsaka: Izumiya Kin'emon, Kōka 4 [1847].
Katsushika Ōi (ca. 1800-1866, also known as Katsushika Eijo), Hokusai's third daughter, was active in helping her artist father produce illustrations in his workshop. She ...
Esagashi taizenshū: kyōiku moji-e (Great compilation of hidden pictures: character-pictures for education)
Esagashi taizenshū: kyōiku moji-e ["Great compilation of hidden pictures: character-pictures for education"]
[Utagawa, Kunitoshi (illustrated by)].
Tōkyō: Kokkadō, [ca. Meiji 25 (1892)].
A mid-Meiji period compilation of hidden-picture puzzles and moji-e for children. The work is split into two parts: Tōsei sanjūni mensō ("Thirty-two amusing express ...
I am a Cat (Chapter I, Chapter II)
Natsume, K. [Kinnosuke; Natsume, Soseki]; Ando, K. [Andō, Kanichi] [translation by]; [Hashiguchi, Goyō (illustrations by)].
Tokyo : Y. Okura, 1906 [actually 1908]. First edition, later printing.
The first English translation of Natsume Soseki's classic of modern Japanese fiction. The translator, Andō, a fan of Conan Doyle, went to the great writer's house ...
Itazura Burinkī (Naughty Blinky), Ōkikunatta Burinkī (Blinky Grows Up), Burinkī to Nattsī (Blinky and Nutsy)
Itazura Burinkī ["Naughty Blinky"]; Ōkikunatta Burinkī ["Blinky Grows Up"]; Burinkī to Nattsī ["Blinky and Nutsy"]
Uōru, Doroshī [Wall, Dorothy] [original text and illustrations by]; Ide, Hiroko [translated by].
Tōkyō: Dōshinsha, Shōwa 48-59 [1973-1984].
A complete set of three highly illustrated books from the Burinkī Biru no Boken ("The Adve ...
Jūkanroku: Sōga
Mizushima, Kōyō (Isaiah) [edited by].
Tōkyō : Seikyō Honkai Henshūjo, Meiji 39 [1906]. First edition.
A document printed to commemorate a celebration by the congregation of the Japanese Orthodox Church for the 25th anniversary of Bishop Nikolai Kasatkin (1836–1912) and his elevation to Archbishop of All Japan by the Russian Orthodox Holy Syno ...
Kachi-Kachi Mountain
Kachi-Kachi Mountain
Hiro, Kodō [Japanese indirectly translated by]; Thompson, David [English translation by].
Tōkyō: Hiro Kodō, Hasegawa Takejirō, Meiji 20 [1887].
A supplement to issue 1,219 of Eiri Jiyū Shinbun featuring the translation of Kachi-Kachi Yama originally used in one of Hasegawa Takejirō's famous chirimenbon (crepe-paper books). The tex ...
Kaichū Hoshi Tokei (Pocket-Sized Clock of the Stars)
Kaichū Hoshi Tokei ["Pocket-Sized Clock of the Stars"]
Senshūkan Shujin [created by].
[Japan]: Marita Genryōdō, Kaei 5 [1852].
A chart of the "Twenty-Eight Mansions" of Chinese astronomy (loosely equivalent to the zodiacal constellations of Western astronomy), with text describing the locations of five mansions for each of the 24 divisions of the solar y ...
Kaika jinkōki (The enlightenment Jinkōki)
Kaika jinkōki ["The enlightenment Jinkōki"]
Takahashi, Takematsu [text by].
Tōkyō: Shōgikudō, [ca. Meiji 18 (1885)].
A short book on the use of the abacus (soroban) in mathematical calculations. The Jinkōki, a text authored by Yoshida Mitsuyoshi (1598-1672, also Kōyū) in the early seventeenth century and acknowledged in the title of this work, is the ol ...
Kakkoku Shoryō Bankoku Chimei Shōran
Shibata, Shūzō.
Edo [Tōkyō] : Shunsōdō, [Kaei 6 (1853)].
A guidebook of place names from around the world, recorded as "the first dictionary of place names [published in Japan]".¹ The author, Shibata Shūzō (1820–1859), was the son of a dried fish seller who lived on Sado Island in his early years. He enjoyed drawing pictures and maps of his local surr ...
Kanegura Sandaiki (Three Generations of Treasuries)
Kanegura Sandaiki ["Three Generations of Treasuries"]
Hattori [Mantei], Ōga [text by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Kobayashi [Tsuruya] Kiemon ... [et al.], Meiji 7 [1874].
A set of three Kyōsai-Ōga zasshi issues, complete, about a family's economic struggles revolving around their pawnshop Iseya. The title of the moralist ...
Kappa Sōden Kyūrizukai (A Kappa's Talks on Science: How to Use Cucumbers)
Kappa Sōden Kyūrizukai ["A Kappa's Talks on Science: How to Use Cucumbers"]
Kanagaki, Robun [text by]; [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by].
Edo [Tōkyō]: Bankyūkaku, [preface dated Meiji 5 (1872), but printed Meiji 15 (1882)].
Issues six and seven of Kokkei Zansai Bukuro ("A Collection of Humorous Leftovers"), containing the full text of t ...
Katawa Musume (The Deformed Girl)
Katawa Musume ["The Deformed Girl"]
Fukuzawa, Yukichi [text by].
[Tōkyō]: Fukuzawa Yukichi, Meiji 5 [1872].
A short satire attacking the traditional Japanese custom of married women blackening their teeth and shaving off their eyebrows, by the famed reformer, educator, and expert on Western civilisation Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). The work is ...
Keisei Koi Samisen: Yūkiri Izaemon [A Courtesan's Shamisen of Love: Yūkiri and Izaemon]
Keisei Koi Samisen: Yūkiri Izaemon ["A Courtesan's Shamisen of Love: Yūkiri and Izaemon"]
[Bokusentei], Yukimaro [text by]; [Keisai], Eisen [illustrated by].
Edo [Tōkyō]: Maruya Jinpachi, Bunsei 10 [1827].
A gōkan illustrated by Eisen recounting a lovers' feud between the courtesan Yūkiri and her handsome but destitute customer Fujiya Izaemon. Y ...
Kikkyō Kafuku Hitorihandan: Ekigaku Benmō (Judgements on Good and Bad Fortunes: A Primer on the Study of Divination)
Kikkyō Kafuku Hitorihandan: Ekigaku Benmō ["Judgements on Good and Bad Fortunes: A Primer on the Study of Divination"]
Kataoka, Kenzō [edited by].
Kyōto: Nakamura Asakichi, Meiji 19 [1886].
A fortune-telling book and sangi (counting rod) set, housed in its original box. To tell one's fortune, the six rods would be thrown, and the resulting hexagram ...
Kimyō Zui (A Strange Pictorial Dictionary)
[Kimyō Zui ("A Strange Pictorial Dictionary")]
Santō-an [Santō, Kyōden] [text and illustrations by].
[Edo]: Ōshimaya Den'emon, [ca. Kyōwa period (1801-1804)].
A playful book of moji-e ("character-picture") illustrations and hanjimono/hanji-e ("puzzle-pictures") by the acclaimed gesaku author Santō Kyōden. Moji-e are illustrations that feature Japanese ...
Kōeki Shojaku Mokuroku Taizen
廣益書籍目録大全 [Kōeki Shojaku Mokuroku Taizen, “A Complete Catalogue of Publications for Public Utility”]
[Yao, Ichibē ... (et al.) (text by)].
Rakuyō [Kyōto]: Yao Ichibē ... [et al.], [ca. Genroku 5 (1692)].
An early woodblock-printed shojaku mokuroku (catalogue of publications) in five volumes, compiled by Kyoto bookseller ...
Kōko Shinbun (World News)
Kōko Shinbun ["World News"]
Fukuchi, Gen'ichirō [produced by].
[Edo (Tōkyō): Fukuchi Gen'ichirō], Keiō 4 [1868].
Issues 1-5 of Kōko Shinbun, a pro-Bakufu newspaper founded by the reporter, interpreter, and Tokugawa loyalist Fukuchi Gen'ichirō (1841-1906). The issues include illustrations lifted from British and French newspapers, se ...
Kyōiku gakei moji-e (Character-picture shapes for education)
Kyōiku gakei moji-e ["Character-picture shapes for education"]
Utagawa, Kunitoshi, [Katsushika, Hokusai?] [illustrated by].
Shitaya, [Tōkyō]: Yamazaki Gyōzaburō, Kokkadō, Meiji 25 [1892].
A book of moji-e ("character-picture") amusements for children. Moji-e are illustrations that feature Japanese characters (typically hiragana) 'hidden' in the li ...
Manji (Quicksand)
Manji ["Quicksand"]
Tanizaki, Junichirō [text by]; Nakagawa, Shūzō [binding designed by].
Tōkyō: Kaizōsha, Shōwa 6 [1931]. First complete (or "book") edition.
Manji, by the author and Nobel Prize in Literature nominee Junichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965), is a novel that delves into the complex feelings of love and betrayal experienced by the narrator Sonoko re ...
Miburi Iroha (The Iroha in gestures)
Miburi Iroha ["The Iroha in gestures"]
Tōzaian, Nanboku [preface and text by]; Shōchōrō [Utagawa], Kunimaro, Kitao, Shigemasa [II] [illustrated by].
[Edo]: Yamaguchi, [ca. late Edo period (after 1829)].
An inventive gōkan also known under the title Miburi Iroha-gei, featuring illustrations of people twisted into the shapes of the characters of the Japanese ...
Miyako meishoguruma (A trip through the famous places of the capital)
Miyako meishoguruma ["A trip through the famous places of the capital"]
Tōritei Shujin [edited by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. late Edo period (1840-60s)?].
An illustrated guidebook to Kyoto, including information on sightseeing locations, temples, shrines, Gion, annual events, lodgings in the city, and so on. Ikeda Tōritei (1788–1857 ...
Naniwa Shinbun (News from Naniwa)
Naniwa Shinbun ["News from Naniwa"]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan: printing house unidentified, ca. early Meiji period (1860-80s)?].
A double-sided woodblock used to print a twenty-verse hitotsutose counting song. Hitotsutose was a type of kazoe-uta counting poem popular from the Meiji to early Shōwa period. Hitotsutose sheets printed by woodblocks such a ...
Nihon Chimei-kagami (Mirror of the Names of Regions in Japan)
Nihon Chimei-kagami ["Mirror of the Names of Regions in Japan"]
[Shimizu], Yoshitamajo [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. late Edo period (1850-60s)?].
A list of place names in Japan, illustrated with seven double-page spreads of landscapes by Shimizu Yoshitamajo, also known as Utagawa Yoshitama (1836-1870). Yoshitamajo was a pupil of Ut ...
Nijūshikō: Meiji Shinkoku (The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: Newly Engraved in the Meiji Period)
Nijūshikō: Meiji Shinkoku ["The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: Newly Engraved in the Meiji Period"]
Komiyama, Gorō [edited by].
Nihonbashi, [Tōkyō]: Makino Sōjirō, Meiji 17 [1884].
A Confucian guide to ethics (especially filial piety) originally produced in the Yuan dynasty (1260–1368) by Guo Jujing, The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars experienced incr ...
Ōdontaku Shinbun Kidan (Great Sunday Newspaper: Stories of Demons)
Ōdontaku Shinbun Kidan ["Great Sunday Newspaper: Stories of Demons"]
Mantei, Ōga [text by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrations by].
Tōkyō: Yamazakiya Seishichi ... [et al.], Meiji 5-6 [1872-1873].
Issues 1 and 2 (all published) of a Kyōsai-Ōga zasshi on the exploits of the monks Anrakubō and Narakubō in the six realms of the afterlife. Th ...
On John Manjiro, one of the first Japanese residents of the US
Ikoku monogatari: Nakanohama Manjirō ["Story of a foreign country: Nakanohama Manjirō"]
[Author unidentified]; [Kashii, Masateru (hand-copied by)].
[Japan], Kaei 5 [1852]. Manuscript.
A manuscript recounting the experiences of the Japanese boy Manjirō (later known as Nakanohama Manjirō, John Manjirō, and John Mung). In 1841, fourteen-year-old Manjirō was s ...
On the Human Body, with a Diagram of Sign Language
Jintai Mondō ["Questions and Answers About the Human Body"]
Shirotani, Ken [text by]; Nakayama, Chikakazu [proofread by].
Kyōto: Murakami Kanbē , Meiji 9 [1876].
An introductory text to the human body, presumably for schoolage students. The work includes several colour woodblockprinted vignettes of body parts and an illustration of English sign language ...
Onna imagawa oshie no tamazusa: shinkoku kaisei (Precepts for women and teachings in excellent compositions: newly cut and amended)
Onna imagawa oshie no tamazusa: shinkoku kaisei ["Precepts for women and teachings in excellent compositions: newly cut and amended"]
Ikeda, Zenjirō [Keisai Eisen] [edited by]; Keisai, Eisen [illustrated by].
Tōto [Edo]: Kansendō, Tenpō 14 [1843].
A pedagogical text for girls and young women, edited and illustrated by the artist Keisai Eisen (1790&n ...
Oshiegusa Onna Daigaku Sakae Bunko (Lessons for Women: Library of Honour)
Oshiegusa Onna Daigaku Sakae Bunko ["Lessons for Women: Library of Honour"]
Shimizu, Yoshitamajo [illustrated by].
Edo [Tōkyō]: Eikyūdō, Kaei 4 [1851].
A manual of conduct for women, illustrated by Shimizu Yoshitamajo, also known as Utagawa Yoshitama (1836-1870). Yoshitama was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and later became a pupil of Shibata Zeshin. Aside ...
Renpō Shōritsu (Commercial Law of the Federation)
Renpō Shōritsu ["Commercial Law of the Federation"]
[Parsons, Theophilus (original text by)]; Fujita, Kuni [translated by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by]; Katsu, Kaishū [preliminary calligraphy by].
Tōkyō: Kinokuniya Saisuke ... [et al.], Meiji 6-7 [1873-1874].
A complete two-volume set of Fujita Kuni's translation of a work by the ...
Seibutsu shigen: ichimei shugenron (Origin of living things: or, in another name, an origin of species)
Seibutsu shigen: ichimei shugenron ["Origin of living things: or, in another name, an origin of species"]
Darwin, Charles [original text by]; Tachibana, Senzaburō [translated by].
Tōkyō: Keizai Zasshisha, Meiji 29 [1896]. First edition.
The first full Japanese translation of Darwin's On the origin of species, published around nine ...
Seiyō Dōchū Hizakurige: Bankoku Kōkai (Shank's Mare Round the West: A Voyage to All Countries)
Seiyō Dōchū Hizakurige: Bankoku Kōkai ["Shank's Mare Round the West: A Voyage to All Countries"]
Kanagaki, Robun, Fusō, Kan [text by]; Ōju Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai, Ikkeisai [Ochiai], Yoshiiku, Utagawa, Hiroshige III [illustrated by].
[Tōkyō]: Bankyūkaku ... [et al.], Meiji 3-9 [1870-1876].
A complete fifteen-chapter (thirty-volume) set ...
Shina Taiji: Nihon Ryūkōbushi (Popular Japanese Songs on the Extermination of China)
Shina Taiji: Nihon Ryūkōbushi ["Popular Japanese Songs on the Extermination of China"]
Koppi, Dōjin [Nishimori, Takeki] [text by]; [Kobayashi], Kiyochika [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Fusōdō, Meiji 27 [1894].
A book of humorous folk songs on the First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895), written by the novelist, poet, and Maru Maru Chi ...
Shinsaku Dodoitsu: Rokoku Seibatsu (New Dodoitsu Poems on the Crushing Defeat of Russia)
Shinsaku Dodoitsu: Rokoku Seibatsu ["New Dodoitsu Poems on the Crushing Defeat of Russia"]
Kinryū, Sanjin, Suzuki, Kōhachi [edited by].
Tōkyō: Ōkawaya Shoten, Meiji 37 [1904].
A collection of dodoitsu, kyōku, kyōka, haiku, kappore, and other poems published in support of Japan's victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). The work was pu ...
Shinsei Tobi Dango (Consultation with a Beautiful Rabbit: A New System)
Shinsei Tobi Dango ["Consultation with a Beautiful Rabbit: A New System"]
Mantei, Ōga [text by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by].
[Tōkyō]: Yamazakiya Seishichi, Meiji 6 [1873].
A story about greed, featuring the characters Yokuno Fuzakō (a human), Saitoriya Butaroku (a pig), a dog, and a rabbit. The satire attacks the greed of the pa ...
Taishokan (The Great Woven Cap)
Taishokan ["The Great Woven Cap"]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. early Edo period (1600-1700)?].
The jō (first) volume (presumably of a jōge (two-volume) set) of an illustrated edition of Taishokan, one of the most popular kōwakamai ballad drama pieces of the Edo period. The Library of Congress provides the following descriptio ...
The first cocktail book printed in Japan
Kokutēru: kongōshu chōgōhō ["Cocktails: methods of mixing liquor"]
Akiyama, Tokuzō [compiled by].
Tōkyō: Akiyama Ryōri Kenkyūjo, Shōwa 4 [1929]. Fourth edition.
The first cocktail book published in Japan, with several original recipes inspired by Japanese themes. The novel and Japanese TV drama "The Emperor's Cook" was based on the life of the au ...
The Golden Lotus and Other Legends of Japan
Greey, Edward [written and with covers designed and drawn by].
Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1883. First edition.
A first edition copy of Greey's 'The Golden Lotus', inscribed by him to Mrs. (Lizzie) Fenollosa (dated 1882, before the official publication of the book). Ernest Fenollosa taught political economy and philosophy at the Imperial University ...
Tōsei Rikō Musume (A Clever Woman of the Present Day)
Tōsei Rikō Musume ["A Clever Woman of the Present Day"]
Mantei Hattori, Kōsaburō [Ōga] [text by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Yamaguchiya Tōbē, [Meiji 6 (1873)].
A response to Fukuzawa Yukichi's Katawa Musume (1872), Tōsei Rikō Musume is one of the earliest works Mantei Ōga and Kawanabe Kyōsai produced together in this ephe ...
Tsuru no Chitose: Soga no Kadomatsu [Thousand Years of the Crane: Kadomatsu of Soga]
Tsuru no Chitose: Soga no Kadomatsu ["Thousand Years of the Crane: Kadomatsu of Soga"]
Katsu, Genzō, Takeshiba, Tōji [text by]; Kawatake, Kisui [concept by]; Utagawa, Kunisada [illustrated by].
[Edo (Tōkyō)]: Kōeidō, Genji 2 [1865].
A gōkan on the story of the dangerous but chivalrous man Nozarashi Kosuke, illustrated by Kunisada. The original story, insp ...
Tsūzoku Isoppu Monogatari (Aesop's Popular Fables)
Tsūzoku Isoppu Monogatari ["Aesop's Popular Fables"]
Aesop [original fables by]; Watanabe, Tazunu [translated by]; Fujisawa, Bainan, Sakaki, Kōson, Kawanabe, Kyōsai, [Tenniel, Sir John], [Wolf, Joseph] [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Watanabe Tazunu [printing blocks owned by], Yamashiroya Sahē [distributed by], Meiji 5-6 [1872-1873].
The most widely kn ...
Ujō Zatsuwa: Yume no Megane (Chitchat of Sentient Beings: The Glasses of Dreams)
Ujō Zatsuwa: Yume no Megane ["Chitchat of Sentient Beings: The Glasses of Dreams"]
Hyōhyōtei, Sennari [text by]; Utagawa, Yoshitora [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified], Kaei 6 [1853].
A playful gōkan inspired by Santō Kyōden's Harasuji Ōmuseki (1830-40s), Ujō Zatsuwa is a collaboration by the little-known kyōka and gesaku author Hy ...
Ushiya Zōdan Aguranabe: Ichimei Doronken (Beef-Shop Small-Talk: Cross-Legged (at a Beef) Pot)
Ushiya Zōdan Aguranabe: Ichimei Doronken ["Beef-Shop Small-Talk: Cross-Legged (at a Beef) Pot"]
Kanagaki, Robun [text by]; Ikkeisai [Utagawa], Yoshiiku [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Seishidō, [preface dated Meiji 4 (1871)].
The shohen (first series) of Robun's famous satire on the perceived sophistication of Western customs. In the work, he ri ...
Wayō Jikon Burui (Classes of Mixed Japanese and Western Characters)
Wayō Jikon Burui ["Classes of Mixed Japanese and Western Characters"]
Miki, Kōsai [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Hōzandō, Meiji Mizunoesaru [1872].
An illustrated encyclopedia in kanji and romanised Japanese, with definitions in mixed kana and kanji. The volume was compiled and presumably illustrated by Miki Kōsai (1830-1884), also known as Utagawa Yoshimori I. Books, fu ...| 101 - 145 of 145 : | 123 |
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