Tanaka Ryozo (17 results)

Softcover. Condition: New. First Edition. 8vo. Colour pictorial cover (photo showing the author's Sussex home). Sussex life related by the former UK ambassador to Japan, with much comparison and contrasting of the two countries' customs. 112 pp. With some appendices in english / japanese, including a glossary. New condition. NEW.…

Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket (as published). 1st Edition. [Vi] + 82 Pages. In English But With A Japanese Introduction And A Glossary. An Unmarked Book, "As New".

Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket (as published). 1st Edition. X + 110 Pages. In English But With A Japanese Introduction And A Glossary. An Unmarked Book, "As New".

Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket (as published). 1st Edition. Xi + 113 Pages. In English But With A Japanese Introduction And A Glossary. An Unmarked Book, "As New".

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st edition. unpaginated, oblong quarto, b/w photos, decorated green silk boards, purple string-bound with tassel, tight binding, clean throughout, 4mm drip stain to front cover, mild bow to right edge of front cover, brown cardboard slipcase is soiled and worn with clear titles Very Good book in Good slipcase.…

[Reprint]. Two full page coloured maps, 48 pages of black and white photographic illustrations (mainly two to a page), each with a tissue guard and captioned in English. Attractive light green patterned silk covered boards bound Japanese style, contrasting silk tassel ties slightly faded, paper title label laid down on the upper cover, 19 x 26cm. Some occasional time toning on the reverse of the plates, silk worn with a little loss along upper joint and corners, presented in worn original card slipcase, an attractive copy. This photographic record shows the Japanese troops in battle in and around Shanghai. The photographer who captured these shots was an eye-witness to the action as the street scenes and troops in the countryside show. Most photographs show the fighting close up from a Japanese point of view. Includes many recognisable street scenes.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Oblong 8vo. pp. [1, title-page] + 2 leaves of maps + 48 leaves captioned in Japanese and English + [1, colophon]; slightly shaken in the original cloth with string ties, paper label to upper cover, minor wear to label and to extremities of binding. This printed photographic album records scenes during the early months of 1932, when Japanese forces took control of Shanghai. The so-called Shanghai Incident developed after an attack on five Japanese Buddhist monks escalated into anti-Japanese protests in parts of the city. On the 28th January, Japanese planes set off from aircraft carriers to bomb Shanghai, the first major aircraft carrier action in East Asia. The hostilities between Japanese and Chinese forces prompted the League of Nations to send representatives to broker a ceasefire, culminating in the Shanghai Ceasefire Agreement signed on May 5. The present album, a Japanese propaganda publication, shows troops in action, some of the damage wrought by the hostilities, and related scenes.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon état. In-8 à l'italienne, relié soie verte à la japonaise avec cordonnet mauve, titre imprimé contrecollée sur le premier plat, 2 cartes suivies de 48 planches légendées sous serpentes, généralement deux sujets par planche. Bon exemplaire. Photographies se rapportant aux suites des incidents de Mandchourie à Shangai, prémices à la guerre sino-japonaise de 1937. in-8°.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An important episode in the Russian Civil War (1918-1922) is depicted here in a Japanese propaganda album. The album consists mainly of battle scenes where the White Armywith the help of Western allies, Japan and China fights against Red troops. Two types of inscriptions in Japanese and English (translations). The episodes of the Far East front are entitled "The Siberian war". Along with 17 pictures of the Far East and Siberia, the album includes one picture of World War I. Originally the editor and lithographer Tanaka Ryozo made the prints to sell them separately. The present album was bound by an ex-owner at practically the same time it was printed. Text in Japanese and English. Eighteen colour lithographic plates bound into the oblong folding album, contemporary card board cover. Soiled, stained on the front cover. Original hand written title slip is scratched. Creasing on the center of the plates, some of the corners of the plates are chipped, affected only at the margins. Overall very good condition. Size 39x27cm (plate size 39x54cm).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 126 pp. In Japanese. paper inside on inside covers is pulling apart from covers, binding is weak. 126 pages of photographic illustrations with captions in Japanese on the January 28 Incident (First Shanghai Incident). 0.0.

Oblong hardback, approx 10.5 x 7.5 inches. In light brown patterned silk cloth. Silk cord binding to spine. Paper title label to front. In very good condition. A couple of minor splits to cloth at ends of spine binding. Rubbing marks to title label on front. Plates all clean and bright, all tissue guarded. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Title page + map. Illustrated with 48 pages of B&W photographs (average 2 per page.).…

[Tokyo: Shomi-do, 1932]. Oblong quarto, silk-bound boards with ribbon binding, unpaginated, title page, two maps printed in colour, 48 leaves of photographic plates interlined with tissue, colophon, a fine copy in the original lettered cardboard box. Scarce in this condition.

First edition. This appears to be a deluxe edition for the home market as captions are written in both Japanese and English. The binding is in snakeskin, (probably faux snakeskin), with purple ribbon binding intact. Japanese titles to the outside and image of soldiers helmet and straw hat. 2 red & black maps, (one of Cha-Pei & one entitled "map of Sino-Japanese distuarbances (sic), Shanghai") + 48 pp. of black and white photographs depicting the Japanese invasion of Shanghai. Captions are in Japanese and English. Overall in excellent condition. There is a tiny loss to the top and bottom edge of the spine. Very small split to the binding edge. A couple of marks to the cover - but overall in excellent condition. Unpaginated but title, 2 maps, 47 leaves of photographs (printed on one side & 1 leaf colophon. 265 x 190 mm (10½ x 7½ inches). unpaginated but title, 2 maps, 47 leaves of photographs (printed on one side & 1 leaf colophon. …

Tokyo: Shomi-do, Showa 7. [1932]. Oblong 4to. Original patterned cloth, cord-bound with printed label on front cover, housed in the original cardboard slipcase, title printed on spine and front cover; pictorial title, two maps and 48 photographic plates with tissue-guards; flyleaves with repairs near gutter due to binding fault; otherwise very well preserved.Very rare first edition with only one copy located via Library Hub, in the Imperial War Museum. In January 1932 30 ships, 40 airplanes and nearly 7,000 Japanese troops attacked the shoreline near Shanghai, after 18 Japanese nationalist Buddhist monks had been beaten (one died) in a Shanghai factory by an agitated Chinese crowd. This "incident" was a precursor of the Battle of Shanghai in 1937.…

16. Tokyo - Shangai, Huahe Publishing, Showa 7 ( 1932 ) , format oblong in-4°, 19 x 26 cm, 2 coloured maps + 48 leaves with photo illustrations (mostly 2 per page, printed on recto side only), captions in English. Japanese binding in high quality reseda green silk with jacquard pattern, with two silk ties. Very nice copy, each illustated leaf protected with serpente leaves.…