An Illustrated Record of Christian History, Complete in Six Volumes

Yaso Ichidai Benmōki ["A Refutation of the Life of Jesus"]

Tajima, Shōji [text by]; Sensai [Kobayashi], Eitaku [illustrated by].

Tōkyō : Izumiya Hanbē : Nintensha [printing blocks owned by], Meiji 7-8 [1874-1875].

An Ero-guro-nansensu era score featuring a 'modern girl' and abstract graphics

A harmonica score for the theme song of the film Musume sentan erokan jidai ("Girl at the cutting edge of the age of erotic senses"), with covers illustrated by the artist and composer Saitō Kazō (1887-1955) with a kimono-clad moga ("modern girl") surrounded by a geometric whirlwind of disembodied lips and high-heeled legs.

An American's Cultural and Linguistic Gaffes in Japan

Kokkei Jitsuwa ["Amusing True Tales"] = A Foreigner's Blunders in Japan

Eastlake, F. Warrington [text by]; [translator unidentified].

Tōkyō : Kanasashi Horyudo, Meiji 36 [1903].

Two Braille Newspapers from the Taisho Period

Tenji Ōsaka Mainichi = The Braille Mainichi

Nakamura, Kyōtarō [edited and printed by].

Ōsaka: Ōsaka Mainichi Shinbunsha, Taishō 12-16 [1923-1927].

New Arrivals

An unidentified pictorial sutra
A late Edo example of a Heart Sutra for illiterate people, ca. mid to late Edo period (19th century?).

An untitled Edo period eshingyō
The Heart Sutra in logograms, for illiterate people, ca. mid to late Edo period (18th century?).

Dōka kokoro no sugatami (Moral poems: mirror of the soul)
Moral teachings and 'heart' motifs, preface dated Kaei 2 (1849).

Dōka kokoro no utsushi-e (Moral poems: reflections of the soul)
Didactic poems featuring hidden characters, preface dated Bunsei 10 (1827).

An unidentified woodblock-printed book of moji-e
Animal moji-e by an unidentified illustrator, ca. mid Edo period (1680-1780s)?

A manuscript report of the death of the Christian 'Uheiji'
The record of the death of a Japanese Christian, Kyōhō 11 (1726).

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