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70 296 296. TAKAHASHI, G[oro]. Short Biographies of Emineni [sic] Japanese in Ancient and Modern Times each with a characteristic Illustration. Tokyo, Kyushundo, 1890. £2,000 8vo. 2 vols. Original wrappers, string ties, printed title labels to upper wrappers; both vols. pp. [ii, English text including an “Advertisement”] + [40] + [ii, Japanese text]; both vols. 10 doublepage hand-coloured wood-engraved portraits, with ownership inscriptions to the wrappers in chinese calligraphy of chiang Yee, who wrote travel books as “The Silent Traveller”; slight soiling to wrappers, else a near-fine copy. first editions. Both volumes have the same advertisement stating that this is the second volume of a run of 10 which would complement another 10-volume series entitled “The pictorial descriptions of a Hundred famous places of Japan”. However, the text and the illustrations in each volume are different. We have been able to trace only the first volume of the “Eminent Japanese” series in other libraries (Yale and the British Library) and have been unable to tell whether the series was ever completed, which makes this set extremely unusual and interesting. The biography for each person covers 2 leaves of text before and after the illustration for that person. The illustrations themselves, each signed by the Japanese artist, offer “characteristic” portrayals by setting the person within a scene of importance in their life. The subjects in the first volume comprise The Emperor nintoku, prince Shotoku, Sugawara no Michizane, Taira no Masakado, Minamoto no Yoritomo, Madenokoji fujifusa, Aoto fujitsuna, Murasaki Shikibu, Iwakura Tomomi and Yui no Shosetsu. The second volume describes Yamatotake no Mikoto, Jingu Kogu, Takenouchi no Sukune, Wage no Kiyomaro, Minamoto no Yoshie, Taira no Shigemori, Hojo Tokimune, Kusunoki Masashige, Kato Kiyamasa and Saigo Takamori. Not found in Wenckstern’s Bibliography of the Japanese empire. 297. THOMAS, Edward. Lafcadio Hearn. Constable and Company ltd. 1912. £150 Small 8vo. publisher’s green cloth, gilt spine; pp. 91 + 5 [ads.], frontispiece portrait of Hearn; very bright and clean indeed. first edition, second impression. Scarce. One of many books of literary biography produced by Thomas during this period, this is nonetheless a well-researched and sensitively written account of the life and work of the journalist and short story writer. Thomas is particularly strong on Hearn’s role in introducing Western readers to Japanese culture. 297
Henry Sotheran Limited 71 298 299 298. TILLEY, Henry Arthur. Japan, the Amoor, and the pacific; with notices of other places comprised in a Voyage of circumnavigation in the Imperial russian corvette “rynda” in 1858-1860. Smith, elder and Co., 1861. £1,250 8vo. Original green cloth gilt; pp. xii + 405 + 2 (ads.) + 16 (pubs. list); 8 tinted lithographs; very slightly bumped, else a near-fine copy. first edition. The Englishman Tilley served as a language tutor aboard the russian warship rynda. In September 1858 the corvette sailed as part of a small russian squadron from Brest bound for the russian Amoor. The squadron sailed round the cape to Batavia, putting in at Manila and Shanghai before a lengthy stop in Japan. Here Tilley was able to observe the recently formed russian enclave at nagasaki, as well as Yedo (Tokyo). The rynda then sailed on to the Amoor. Tilley remained there for 3 months and claimed to be the first Englishman to land there. The rynda put in subsequently at San francisco before continuing to Hawaii and Tahiti, of which Tilley gives good descriptions. The squadron finally rounded South America to reach portsmouth in May 1860. Tilley’s account provides important early documentary records of the European settlements in Japan and of the newly founded russian colony in the Amoor. Wenckstern i.105. 299. WITH, Karl. Buddhistische plastik in Japan. Wein, Anton Schroll, 1919. £100 4to. 2 volumes. Original decorated boards, title laid down; pp. 207, [8], containing 27 plates; 224 of additional plates. An excellent pictorial scource book of Buddhist statuary. 300. YATES, Ronald E. The Kikkoman chronicles. A Global company with a Japanese Soul New York. McGraw Hill. 1998 £20 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. first edition. 300
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