Yosuko annai ("Guide to the Yangtse River").

Later edition, mapping the river's course from Shanghai to Chongqing in sections and incorporating new information on the unfolding Sino-Japanese war. Issued by Japan's China Area Fleet, the work also includes plans of key ports, showing wharfs, railway lines, and other riverside infrastructure. Yosuko annai was first published under this title in 1935 but draws heavily on earlier reports written by Okino Matao (1898-1978), the head of Japanese naval intelligence in China during the Second World War. Okino was captured by Allied forces in 1944 and was the most senior Japanese POW brought to the US during the war for interrogation. Landscape quarto. With 18 halftone plates, 75 maps and diagrams (most colour). Text in Japanese, leaf printed on pink paper. Original card wrappers, green cloth backstrip, front cover lettered in black against illustrative background. Recent bookseller's ticket on inner rear cover. Wrappers with central vertical crease, staining and foxing, contents clean: very good. …