A finely bound record of a trip to Japan
A walk through Japan, 1877
Goff, Lieutenant-Colonel [Robert Charles] [text by].
London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1878.
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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.
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Love fortunes: divination on the compatibility of men and women
Sanzesō Izumo tōzachō ["The Book of Divination: a current register of things in Izumo"]
Gyōkaen, Gochō [text by]; Ichimōsai [Utagawa], Yoshitora [illustrated by].
[Edo (Tōkyō): Kinkyōdō], Kōka 3 [1846].
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The Eight Views of Omi, by an unidentified artist
Ōmi hakkei ["Eight views of Ōmi"]
[Artist unidentified].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. late Edo to early Meiji period (1840-70s)?].
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