Nankyoku Tanken [Expedition to Antarctica]

Shirase, Nobu [text by].

Tōkyō: Hakubunkan, Taishō 2 [1913]. Third edition.

A third edition of the personal account of Japan's first Antarctic expedition (1910-1912) recorded by the expedition's leader, Japanese Army Lieutenant Shirase Nobu (1861–1946). Shirase's crew departed Tokyo on the Kainan ...

Nankyoku Tanken Inuzori-tai: Futari no Ainu no Hanashi [Antarctic Expedition Dog Sled Team: The Story of Two Ainu People]

Koide, Shōgo [text by].

Tōkyō: Fuzanbō, Shōwa 20 [1945]. First edition.

The story of the two Ainu men, Yayomanekuh (Yamabe Yasunosuke, 1867-1923) and Sisratoka (Hanamori Shinkichi, b. 1875/1876- year of death unknown), who travelled as ...

Nankyoku Tanken Jitsuroku [True Record of the Antarctic Expedition]

Tada, Keiichi [text by].

Tōkyō: Kainan Shuppan Kyōkai, Shōwa 31 [1956]. First edition.

A record of Japan's first Antarctic expedition (1910-1912) by the expedition's secretary and, later, assistant naturalist Tada Keiichi (1883-1959), following earlier works including his personal, ...

Nankyoku Tanken Shiroku [A Personal Account of the Antarctic Expedition]

Tada, Keiichi [text by].

Tōkyō: Keiseisha, Taishō Gannen [1912]. Fourth edition.

A personal, unauthorised, account of Japan's first Antarctic expedition (1910 1912) by the expedition's secretary and, later, assistant naturalist Tada Keiichi (1883-1959). The work includes nine ...

Kirishitan Kikigaki ["A Verbatim Account of the Christians"]

[Author and transcriber unidentified].

[Japan, ca. late Edo to early Meiji period (1850-70s)?]. Manuscript.

A collection of writings about the Jesuit presence in Japan in the 16th and early 17th centuries. The manuscript begins with a brief description of the arrival of Christians (Jesuits) in Ja ...

Oguri Hanguwan ["Oguri Hangan"]

[Author/s unidentified].

Niigata: Chida Tasaku, Meiji 27 [1894].

Issue one only of a hiragana version of the legend of the hero-warrior Oguri Hangan, printed by the Niigata-based uta-hon publisher Chida Tasaku. The fact that the edition is in hiragana suggests it was published for children.

Part one on ...

Hokujoryo kigen shōsho ["Origins of the northern pleasure district, abridged"]

Shōji [Nishida], Katsutomi [original text by].

[Japan, ca. Ganji period (1864-1865)?]. Manuscript.

An abridged manuscript version of Hokujoryo kigen - an edition of Ihon Dōbō Goen ("Sequel to A garden of words from the boudoir", 1733) with additions by poet Ishihara Toryū (or T ...

[Saisei ("[Record of] the Prosperous Age")]

Fūrai, Sanjin [text by]; Ukiyo, Kenbutsuzaemon [postscript by]. 

[Japan]: Tamaya Josan, Keiō Kinotoushi [1865].

An adaptation of the famed Yoshiwara Saiken guide to the pleasure quarters. Where the names of pleasure houses and courtesans would typically be listed, this work features the names (and rankings ...

Santō kokkei monzen ["A collection of Santō's comical writings"]

Seisei, Sanjin [Santō, Kyōden] [text by].

Tōto [Tōkyō]: Tōto Shorin: Bakanrō [blocks owned by], [preface dated Kansei 2 (1790)].

A parody by Santō Kyōden of Keiten Yoshi, a well-known textbook/commentary on the Four Books of classical Chinese philosophy for Japanese rea ...

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].

A scarce gōkan on the romantic compatibility of different personality types, authored by Gyōkaen Gochō (active 1846-1852) and illustrated by Utagawa ...

Seijin Kimotsubushi: Kengu Shinbun ["The Thunderstruck Sage: The New Culture of the Wise and the Foolish"]

Mantei, Ōga [text by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by]. 

Tōkyō: Eikyū Bunko, Yamamoto Heikichi ... [et al.], [preface dated Meiji 5 (1872)].

The first series (all published) of a Kyōsai-Ōga work on one of Ōga's favourite themes - ...

Seirō Hankatsū ["Poseur of the Bordellos"] 

Hattori [Mantei], Ōga [text by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrations by]. 

[Tōkyō]: Kōbundō ... [et al.], Meiji 7 [1874]. 

Three issues, complete, of this satire set in Yoshiwara after the implementation of the Meiji 5 (1872) ordinance liberating all geisha and courtesans. Hankatsū (半化通) plays on the id ...

Seiyō Bunkenroku ["Record of Things Seen and Heard about the West"]

Murata, Fumio [compiled by].

Hiroshima: Izutsuya Shōjirō, Meiji 2-4 [1869-1871].

A complete set of this illustrated record of the history, politics, society, government, geography, and customs of Britain. The compiler, Murata Fumio (1836-1891), is better known as Nomura Fumio, the journa ...

Sentakusho yori Nomishirami Kadomo he Onmōshi-idashi no Koto narabi ni Mushi Sanka Nakama yori Sentakujo he Negai Izuru Koto ["A Formal Statement from a Laundry to Fleas, Lice, and Mosquitoes, together with a Humble Request from the Three Groups of Insects to the Laundry"] 

[Matsuda, Yasuke (original text by)]. 

Hacchōbori, [Edo (Tōkyō)]: Kyōya Sōbē, [ca. late Edo peri ...

Shakuyakutei bunshū ["Collection of writings by Shakuyakutei"]

Shakuyakutei, [Nagane] [text by]; Goshintei, Mizaru, Takekuma'an, Futaki [proofread by]; Yanagawa, Shigenobu II [illustrated by].

[Japan]: Rikkaen Fusanaga [printing blocks owned by], Tenpō 5 [1834]. 

A collection of short prose pieces by the famed kyōka poet and occasional gesaku aut ...

Shihonron ["Das Kapital"]

Marx, Karl [original text by]; Takabatake, Motoyuki [translated by].

Tōkyō: Kaizōsha, Shōwa 2-3 [1927-1928].

One of the earliest complete Japanese translations of Das Kapital. The translator, Takabatake Motoyuki (1886-1928), discovered an English edition of Marx's work during time he spent in jail for an article on the 1908 po ...

Shijō Taiheiyō Ryokō ["A Trip to the Pacific on Paper"]

Gunji, Jirōmasa [handwritten by].

[Japan, ca. early to mid-Shōwa period (1940-1950s?)]. In manuscript.

A draft of an article for All Women (Ōru Josei) magazine handwritten by author and lyricist Gunji Jirōmasa (1905-1973). In the article, the author takes the role of a guide, leading the readers (whic ...

Shina Taikan ["A Compendium of China"]

Fukuda, Bisen [Shūtarō] [text and illustrations by].

Tōkyō: Kanao Bun'endō, Taishō 5 [1916].

A complete set of two volumes by Fukuda Bisen (1875-1963) on the geography, customs, and history of China. The highly illustrated albums cover the Yōsukō (Yangtze River) region and the Kōga (Yellow River) region, whi ...

Shinmonku Yukari no Tsuki ["The Moon of Affinity: New Lyrics"]

[Illustrator and author unidentified].

[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. Keiō 4 (1868)].

Kawaraban were woodblock-printed gossip and news sheets produced illicitly in the Edo period for the consumption of laypeople. Publishers who dared print kawaraban on political topics were at a particular ...

Shinpō kyōji zukue ["New method of illustrating crazy characters"] 

Mantei, Ōga [text by]; Ichiryūsai [Utagawa], Hiroshige [illustrated by].

[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. Kōka gannen (1844)]. 

A playful book of moji-e ("character-picture") illustrations by Utagawa Hiroshige accompanied by poems by Mantei Ōga. Moji-e are illustrations th ...

Shirase Chūi Tanken-ki [An Account of Lieutenant Shirase's Expeditions]

Taniguchi, Zenya, Kimura, Yoshimasa [text by].

Tōkyō: Daichisha, Shōwa 17 [1942]. First trade edition.

The first trade edition of Shirase's biography, published two years after the extremely scarce first edition. The authors, Taniguchi Zenya (1916-2011) and Kimura Yoshimasa ...

Shōbatsu Tenkarafuru ["Reward and Punishment: Fall from Heaven"]; Bikkuri Chōmen-bako ["The Surprise Box of Punishment"]

Hattori [Mantei], Ōga [text by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by]. 

Tōkyō: Yamazaki Seishichi ... [et al.], Meiji 8 [1875].

Two Kyōsai-Ōga zasshi bound together by an ex-owner. The title of the first issue in the volume ...

Shozōki ["Miscellaneous notes"]

[Author unidentified].

[Japan, ca. Meiji period (1880-1900s?)]. Manuscript.

A manuscript on an array of topics, featuring what appears to be the inclusion of illustrations of several books used for reference by the compiler. A work of bibliographical interest needing deciphering.

One manuscript volume, ...

Shunkyōshū: kyōka eiri ["Collection of spring fancies: illustrated kyōka poems"] 

Tokkansai, Sachō [selections by]; Harukawa, Goshichi [illustrated by].

Karaku [Kyōto]: Shōfūsha [blocks cut by]; Yoshida Shinbē [book bound by], Bunka 13 [1816].

A collection of kyōka poems by various poets, each accompanied by a colour woodblock-printed illustration,& ...

Shuzenji Onsen Meishoki ["Famous Places in Shuzenji Onsen"]

Hattori [Mantei], Ōga [text by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by]. 

[Shizuoka]: Gotō Senzō, Meiji 13 [1880]. 

One of the few non-satirical works Ōga and Kyōsai produced together, Shuzenji Onsen Meishoki is an illustrated guidebook to Shuzenji Onsen in Izu, Shikuoka Prefecture. ...

Sodetama kyōkashū ["Sleeve-sized collection of kyōka poems"]

Benbenkan, Koryū [text by]; Eisai, Hokutai [Katsushika Hokutai] [illustrated by]; Shikitei, Sanba [preface by].

[Edo (Tōkyō): Yamatoya Kyūbē, Bunka 3-4 (1806-7)].

A collection of kyōka - 'mad poems' - edited by the kyōka poet and shogunate retainer Benbenkan Koryū (1746-1818). Koryū ...

Sankō Genpei Seisuiki ["A Reference to the Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of the Minamoto and Taira Clans"] [with] Sankō Ishiyama Gunki ["A Reference to the War Chronicle of Ishiyama"]

Ikkeisai [Utagawa] [Ochiai], Yoshiiku [illustrated by].

Tōkyō: Hiro'oka Kōsuke, Meiji 16 [1883].

Four issues from the Kinko Jitsuroku ("Veritable Records of Past and Pre ...

[Sumiyoshi Monogatari (The Tale of Sumiyoshi)]

[Scribe and illustrator unidentified].

[Japan, ca. early Edo period (1600-1750s?)]. In manuscript.

An opulent Nara ehon (Nara picture book) manuscript of the first volume of Sumiyoshi monogatari. The tale is a giko monogatari — a story featuring Heian period aristocrats — and follows the ...

Taihei uzō ["Scenes of the Great Peace"]

[Ōnishi], Chinnen [illustrated by].

Edo [Tōkyō]: Kobayashi Shinbe, Ōsakaya Genbē, Bunsei 12 [1829]. 

An early printing of Ōnishi Chinnen's beautiful Azuma no teburi ("Customs of the Eastern Capital"), also known as Chinnen gafu ("Chinnen's album") and Taihei uzō ("Scenes of the Great Peace"), featurin ...

Taiheiki Mochisake Kassen ["Chronicle of Peace: Battle of Rice Cakes and Sake"]; Setaiheiki: Garakuta-Banashi ["Chronicle of Household Peace: Stories of Miscellaneous Utensils"]; Setaiheiki: Kanryaku no Maki ["Chronicle of Household Peace: Abridged Section"] 

[Creator/s unidentified]. 

Bakurochō, [Tōkyō]: Yoshidaya Shōkichi, [ca. Tenpō 9 (1838)?].

Taiyō Shinwa: Tako no Nyūdō Uo Sekkyō ["The Bald Octopus's Sermon to the Fish: A New Story from the Ocean"]

Kanagaki, Robun [text by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by]. 

[Tōkyō]: Zonseikaku ... [et al.], [preface dated Meiji 5 (1872)]. 

In this apologue by Robun, who was the son of a fishmonger, the Dragon King hears of social refo ...

Tanemaki Gonbē no Atotsugi: Tarobē Mizukakeron ["Tarobē the Waterer, Successor of Gonbē the Sower"]

Hattori [Mantei], Ōga [text by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by]. 

Tōkyō: Yamazakiya Seishichi ... [et al.], Meiji 7 [1874].

The middle fascicle of a three-issue parody of a family history produced by Ōga and Kyōsai - Gonbē Tanemakiron ("Gonb ...

Mizu no omo shū ["The surface of the water"]

Shakuyakutei, [Nagane], Suiseien, [Ryōkyo], Saisentei, [Naofuru] [poems selected by]; [Komatsubara], Suikei [illustrated by].

[Japan]: Mendō, Seiyūen [printing blocks owned by], [postscript dated Tenpō 2 (1831)].

A collection of kyōka poems illustrated with stunning colour woodblock prints by Komatsubara Suike ...

Tōga Hitorigeiko [Modern Illustration for Solo Study]

[Kijakusai (?) (preface by)].

Fushimi: Kameya Hanbē, Kōka 5 [1848].

A "teach yourself painting" book for beginners, featuring information on topics including the necessary pigments and implements, the different grips for brushes, the effects given by different brush types and strokes, the correct or ...

Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi Hachiyama-zue ["Pictures of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Mountains"] 

Kimura, Tōsen [produced by]; Nan'yūtei [Utagawa, Yoshishige] [illustrated by]. 

Tōto [Edo]: Yoshida Kinbē, Kaei Gannen [1848] [but probably a Meiji era printing]. 

This inventive work offers a tour along the Tōkaidō hi ...

Tokugawa jūgo dairyakki ["An abridged record of the fifteen Tokugawa shōguns"]

Ishikawa, Wasuke [edited by]; [Hasegawa], Sadanobu [II] [illustrated by].

Ōsaka: Ishikawa Wasuke, Meiji 13 [1880].

A complete three-volume set of this early/mid Meiji kusazōshi picture book featuring a mix of woodblockand copperplate-printing techniques. Each volume begins wit ...

[Tōkyō ryūkō saiken-ki ("A detailed guide to Tokyo trends")]

Tōtō, Sanjin [preface by]; Noboritei, Isshin [selections by]; Shimizu, Ichijirō [edited by].

Tōkyō: Shimizu Ichijirō, Meiji 18 [1885].

An adaptation, occasionally humorous, of the famed Yoshiwara Saiken guide, featuring the names of popular manufacturers, stores, craftspeople, and entertainers w ...

Tsukurimono Shukō no Tane ["Ideas for Fabricated Things"] 

Akatsuki, Seiō [Kanenari] [created by]; Kirōtei, Rikimaru [preface by]; Matsukawa, Hanzan [illustrated by]. 

[Ōsaka]: Aoki Sūzandō, [ca. Meiji period (1880-90s)?].

A Meiji printing of Matsukawa Hanzan's album of tsukurimono (lit. "fabricated things") - objects, legendary character ...

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 wid ...

Ukiyo Karakuri Seiyō Megane ["The Machinations of the Floating World Through Western Lenses"]

Oka, Jōki [Kawahara Eikichi] [text by], Kanagaki, Robun [proofread by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by]. 

[Tōkyō]: Bankyūkaku, [preface dated Meiji 6 (1873)].

The complete first series (all published) of a little-known collaboration between Robun, ...

Ukiyo nanabake ezukushi ["Illustrated compilation of seven shapeshifters of the floating world"]

[Illustrator and author unidentified].

Teramachi, Kyōto: Hishiya Jihē, [ca. mid-Edo period (1740-60s)?].

An illustrated story of vengeance unrecorded in online databases. Tsukumogami, closely related to hyakkimono, are utensils and implements that have become s ...

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: Wan'ya Kihee, [preface dated Meiji 4 (1871)].

The first two series (of three) of Robun's famous satire on the perceived sophistication of Western customs. In the work, he ridic ...

Watashi no Nankyoku Tanken-ki [My Account of the Antarctic Expedition]

Shirase, Nobu [text by].

Tōkyō: Kōkoku Seinen Kyōiku Kyōkai, Shōwa 18 [1943]. Third edition.

A re-titled and re-packaged edition of Shirase Nobu's Nankyoku Tanken published during wartime. This copy is from the third edition, printed less than six months after the first edition ...

Yakusha Kijinden ["Biographies of Extraordinary Actors"]

Tatekawa [Utei], Enba [II] [selections by]; [Utagawa, Kunisada (illustrated by)].

[Edo (Tōkyō): Yamaguchiya Tōbē, Tenpō 4 (1833)].

The first volume of the first series of Yakusha Kijinden. The four-volume work featured biographies of the kabuki actors Ichikawa Ebizō V (1791–1859), Segawa Kik ...

Zhu shi jiao zheng Hua Ying si shu ["The Four Books in Chinese and English, annotated and corrected"]

Legge, [James] [translated by].

[Shanghai?]: Shang wu yin shu guan, [ca. early 20th century?]. 

An English translation by the Scottish missionary James Legge (1815-1897) of the 'Four Books' (Confucian analects, The great learning, The doctrine ...

Zokugo Mako-den: shinyaku seisho = St. Mark in Japanese Colloquial [sic]

[Translator unidentified]. 

Yokohama: Beikoku Seisho Kaisha = American Bible Society, Taishō 3 [1914].

A Taishō era translation of The Gospel of St. Mark into Japanese, published as a small pamphlet (12.7 x 9.4 cm) by the American Bible Society in Yokohama. H.W. Schwartz (Rev. He ...

Zushū Shuzenji Onsen Meisho Kaisei-zu ["Revised Map of Famous Places in Shuzenji Onsen, Zushū"]

Mantei, Ōga [reproduced by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai ["clearly transcribed" by]. 

[Shizuoka: Gotō Senzō?], Meiji 14 [1881]. 

Printed on one large (34.5 x 51 cm) leaf using a very finely cut woodblock, Zushū Shuzenji Onsen Meisho Kaisei no Zu is an ...

(Shinpan) Kannin goryō kogane no kotonoha ["(Newly published) Profit from perseverance: golden phrases"]

[Kyokutei, Bakin (text by); Kitao, Shigemasa (illustrated by)].

[Edo (Tokyo): Tsuruya Kiemon, Kansei 8 (1796)].

The second volume of a comical work about a young man (Zenjirō) and woman (Osechi) who, taking to heart their parents' teachings about pe ...

[An untitled manuscript on the Tokugawa administration]

[Author unidentified].

[Japan, ca. Meiji period (1870-90s)]. Manuscript.

A manuscript on the Tokugawa shogunate's civil government system, previously owned by or prepared for the diplomat and eventual British Consul-General John Carey Hall (1844-1921). Hall, who was born in Northern Ireland, came ...

A story of the Otokodate of Yedo = Banzuiin Chōbē

[Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford (original text by)]; White, J.L. [corrected by].

Tokyo: Shoeido, Meiji 35 [1902]. Sixth edition.

A translation of the work Banzuiin Chōbē by the British diplomat and Japanologist Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837 - 1916). The text recounts the s ...