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Boston 1901, Lee & Shephard. Yellow pictorial cloth, 246p., notes, 8 hand colored collotypes, 12 x 19 cm.,a very bright, clean, solid copy, contents likewise, much better than the average example. * * FIRST EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . A RARE SUBJECT, COVERING JAPAN'S DEPARTURE FROM FEUDALISM . . . TO MODERNIZATION, THE VANQUISHING OF SAMURAI . * A political history of Japan during the end of the Tokugawa, and the beginning of the Meiji era. The establishment of the autonomous oligarchy, the metamorphoses into a Modern state, it's leading men: Ito, Inouye, Okuma and other Genro, or 'elder statesmen." . The status of the new Emperor Meiji, his backers, the first Imperial governor of Yedo, Karassu Maru Honami and others. Yokohama in 1859, Choshiu Yashiki, Sonno Joi! and other useful insights to the chaotic period of Japan's modernization and departure from a feudal society. . This major change in Japan's form of government, way of life and departure from the four classes of society [Samurai, farmers, peasants and on the bottom Merchants in that order] forced Japan on the road to civil war and internal strife. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: This is bound in the original publisher's yellow pictorial cloth showing a young Samurai archer. Very bright & clean example, far and above the average copy. . *.
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