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[Tokyo 1934-42]. Stiff wrs., color paste on covers, color & b.w. plates, complete 40 vol. set, a few damp-stained edges, occasional foxing, a few edges & pages tanned, contents very clean & solid. * ALL ITEMS FIRST EDITION -A SCARCE SET * . *** *** *** . . A COMPLETE SET OF 40 INDIVIDUAL MONOGRAPHS . . . ON ALL ASPECTS OF JAPAN, ART & CULTURE & SOCIETY . . . EXCELLENT PRIMARY RESOURCE BY LEADING SCHOLARS & EXPERTS . . . A FASCINATING PRE-WAR SET PUBLISHED FROM 1934-1942 . . . COMPLETE AS ISSUED, EACH UNIFORMLY BOUND . . . EACH FRONT COVER WITH A COLOR PLATE LAID DOWN . . . PUBLISHED BY JAPANESE GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS & . . BOARD OF TOURIST INDUSTRY . . . INCLUDING MANY EXTREMELY RARE TITLES NOT FOUND ELSEWHERE . . . A CLEAN, SOLID & FIRM SET BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS . . ALL ITEMS FIRST EDITIONS . *** THE SUBJECT & THE SET: This set was published by the Board of Tourist Industry, under the sponsorship of the Japanese Government Railways system, nearly all are FIRST EDITIONS, [except for #11, which is 2nd edition1838], all are pre-World War II, from 1934 to the last volume, 1942. . The set includes several exceptionally RARE & Important monographs: . a. JUDO by Jigoro Kano, # 16 b. JAPANESE BUDDHISM by D.T. Suzuki, #21 c. SUMO-Japanese Wrestling by Hikoyama, #34 d. AINU LIFE AND LEGENDS, BY Kindaiti, #36 e. HAND-MADE PAPERS OF JAPAN by Zyugaku #39 f. JAPANESE NATIONAL CHARACTER by Hasegawa, #40 . to mention just a few of the many highlights. . *** Issued by the Japanese government, in an effort to attract foreign visitors to come and tour Japan in the mid-1930's. . Issued serially, produced this group of exceptionally important monographs, each written by the leading & most eminent scholars on the subject. Each is accurate and beautifully illustrate, each with a colored frontispiece. . The government sought out the leading Japanese exponents and eminent scholars to introduce all aspects of Japanese art, culture, history, customs and traditions to the western world. Each book is a masterpiece of Japanese culture & art. . The results were an impressive success in publishing nicely illustrated, uniform size volumes, each nicely illustrated with color, black & white photographs, drawings and other illustrations. . *** SELDOM FOUND COMPLETE: . THE COMPLETE SET OF 40 VOLUMES: The complete set consists of 40 separates monographs [each on a specific subject], all issued prior to the beginning of World War II. The last five volumes were issued at the start of that war in 1941-1942. . *** NOTE ON THE ROMANIZATION OF PRE-WORLD WAR II JAPANESE: The Japanese made an effort to avoid 'western culture' during the pre-World War II period, Japan abandoned the "Hepburn" method of Romanization in favor of a 'native' method. . . This turned out to be very difficult for westerners to read. After the war, Japanese returned to the 'standard' way of Romanization using the Hepburn system. . Regardless, we are following the AAR [Anglo American Cataloging Rules] by faithfully recording each book's author's name by its printed spelling as found on each title page, strange as it was ! . *** THE COMPLETE LIST OF ALL TITLES & AUTHORS: . 1. TEA CULT OF JAPAN. Yasunosuke Fukukita 2. JAPANESE NOH PLAYS. Toyoichiro Nogami 3. SAKURA [Japanese Cherry]. Manabu Miyosi 4. JAPANESE GARDENS. Matsunosuke Tatsui 5. HIROSHIGE & JAPANESE LANDSCAPES. Yone Noguchi 6. JAPANESE DRAMA. [Yoshio Yoshikawa] 7. JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE. Hideto Kisida 8. WHAT IS SHINTO? Genchi Kato 9. CASTLES IN JAPAN. Orui & M. Toba 10. HOT SPRINGS. Koichi Fujinami 11. FLORAL ART. Issotei Nishikawa 12. CHILDREN'S DAY. Tamotsu Iwado 13. KIMONO. Kenichi Kawakatsu 14. FOOD. Kaneko Tezuka 15. MUSIC. Katsumi Sunaga 16. ZYUDO [ZYUZYUTU] [JUDO & JUJUTSU]. Jigoro/Zigoro Kano 17. FAMILY LIFE. Shunkichi Akimoto 18. SCENERY. T. Tamura 19. EDUCATION. K. Yoshida & T. Kaigo 20. FLORAL CALENDAR. T. Makino & Genziro Oka 21. BUDDHISM. Daitsetz[u] Teitaro Suzuki 22. ODORI [Dance]. Kasyo Matida 23. KABUKI DRAMA. Syutar.
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