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Publicado por Toyodo, Tokyo, 1889
Librería: Kagerou Bunko (ABAJ, ILAB), Tokyo, Japon
Miembro de asociación: ILAB
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Kubota, Beisen; Sensai, Eisen; Matsumoto, Fuko; Chitora, Kawasaki Ilustrador. First edition. 11 volumes bound in one. Quarter leather binding, with some wear, tear to head of spine. Binding starting to crack at endpaper joints. Original colour lithographic wrappers bound-in (upper wrapper of v.1 missing). Volume five missing p.19 onwards and lower wrapper. Ex-ownership stamp of a Japanese Meiji-period lending library to all title pages, as well as the publisher`s stamp. Apart from the missing plates as aforementioned (from the end of v.5) and one plate in volume 8, all plates appear to be present. Because the issues were bound at and used by patrons of a lending library, parts of the book likely to be damaged have been removed. Therefore, some of the thin advertising leafs (originally one to each volume) have been removed, and the fold-out parts of two or three of the folding plates have been cut off. Previous bookseller`s sticker to lower pastedown. Occasional tears, chips, foxing, stains, and tape repairs to contents. Somewhat thumbed. The extremities of some pages missing. The extremely hard-to-find first eleven issues of Fuzoku Gaho, an illustrated Japanese magazine of current affairs and articles on culture, events, accidents, and general news. The earliest issues of Fuzoku Gaho are considerably rare, especially in consecutive numbers. This book includes the full year of Fuzoku Gaho for 1889 (11 v.) (the first volume was published in February). Some of the more interesting articles include those on the Ainu, which mention Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain, John Batchelor, and Isabella Bird, all of whom visited Hokkaido. One other article refers to compliments made by German economist Lorenz von Stein (1815-1890) about Japanese dress and customs. The numerous illustrations (many folding, some lithographic) show an Ainu village, some Ainu people themselves, Japanese people in foreign clothing, sewing, using a penny farthing, at festivals, in traditional costume, etc. The main illustrator was Kubota Beisen. Text in Japanese. A well-loved copy, but extremely rare in consecutive issues, and starting from the very first issue. Used book.