Ki Kimura Ed (4 results)

1st ed. Slight yellow tinge to page edges. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. xi (i), 277 (3) pp. Compiled and Edited by Kimura Ki: First Impression, March 1957. Not Price Clipped. Only the slightest wear to dj with faintly age-toned text block edges, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white. 6.25" x 8.5". Beige cloth with brown leather title plate and gilt lettering to spine. Publisher's original brown-paper Dust Jacket in removable acetate protector. translator's preface, I. Japan and the American Indians; II. Literature Fortelling the Opening of Japan; III. The First Americans in Japan; IV. Perry and Men of Literature; V. Two Young Castaways; VI. An American Religious Novel about Takayama Ukon; VII. Whitman and Japan; VIII. Franklin and the Imperial Court; IX. Longfellow and the New Style Poetry; X. The Influence of Emerson; XI. Chushingura and Theodore Roosevelt; XII. Tsubouchi Shoyo and American Teachers of Shakespeare; XIII. Urashima and Rip van Whinkle; XIV. The Hyakunin Isshu and the Cinquain; XV. Haiku and Imagism; XVI. An Indian Poetess; XVII. The Americanization of Japanese Customs; index with four pages of b&w illustrations and the beginning. Size: Octavo. Book.…

Contains leaves of plates. 16X21.5 CM. xi+277 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Bach cover slightly stained. Spine slightly faded. Multiple stamps on multiple pages. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition. The book is in : English.

Tokyo [1957], Obunsha. Buff cloth, dj., 77p., many photos, very good. Covering Japan & the American indians, Arai Hakuseki,whalers in the Pacific. Literature, fortune telling the opening of Japan, the first American in Japan, Perry and men of litera- ture, two young castaways: Nakamura Manjiro & Joseph Heco. Please inquire as we may have books about both Manjior and Heco, who was the first Japanese to become an American citi- zen. An American religious novel about Takaykama Ukon,Jesuit propaganda, Whitman & Japan, Franklin & the Imperial Court, Longfellow & the New Style poetry, the influence of Emerson, and the classic story of Chushingura the Loyal 47 Samural. Also, covers Theodore Roosevelt. Tsubouchi Shoyo & American teachers of Shakespeare. Urashima & Rip van Whinkle, Hyaku- nin Isshu and the Cinquain, Haiku & Imagism, Indian poetess, Americanization of Japanese customs. A superb text . …