Two Albums of Miniature Landscapes

占景盤図式 [Senkeiban Zushiki, “Illustrations of Tray-Landscapes”]

An Unrecorded Aesop’s Fables Triptych by a Little-Known Pupil of Kyosai

通俗伊蘇普物語 第八号部圖 [Tsūzoku Isoppu Monogatari, Dai Hachi-gō-bu-zu, “Aesop's Fables: Illustration of Number Eight”]

The First German Primer Published in Japan

"Die Ersten Lectionen des Deutschen Sprachunterrichts: im Gebrauch der Deutschen Anfangsclassen der Kaiserlich-Japanesischen Academie von Daïgaku-Nankō"

The Great Battle of the Fish and The Vegetables

青物魚軍勢大合戦之図 [Aomono Sakana Gunzei Ō-kassen no Zu, "Illustration of the Epic Battle of the Vegetable and Fish Armies"]

New Arrivals

Shinpan Omocha-Zukushi
A Toy Print of Assorted Miniature Games, Meiji 17 [1884]

Fukubiki Kuchinamari-e
A Game Sheet of 1904 Buzz-Names, [Ca. Meiji 37 (1904)]

[A Sugoroku Game Featuring Various Animals]
An Unrecorded Sugoroku by Kokunimasa, Meiji 27 [1894]

Kisoji no Yamakawa
Mountain River on the Kiso Road: A Postcard Triptych, [Ca. early to mid-20th century]

Amerika-koku Jōkisha Ōrai
A Striking Night Scene of an American Steam Locomotive, [Bunkyū Gannen (1861)]

Die Ersten Lectionen des Deutschen Sprachunterrichts: im Gebrauch der Deutschen Anfangsclassen der Kaiserlich-Japanesischen Academie von Daïgaku-Nankō
The First German Primer Published in Japan, 1870

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