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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 . …