Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects connected with Japan for the Use of Travellers and Others
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London: John Murray
1898
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Truby King Collection DS 821 CE24 1898
Physical Training for Women by Japanese Methods
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New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
1904
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A Wayfarer in Unfamiliar Japan
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London: Methuen & Co.
1925
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‘Travel note- book’
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Unpublished
[1904]
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Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Records: AG 007-005/033. Hocken Collections
Japanese women, Simoda.
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From the middle of the seventeenth to the beginning of the nineteenth-century, Japan, through the Tokugawa Shōgunate, was successful in rigorously enforcing a policy of seclusion. No Europeans were allowed into Japan except the Dutch who were allowed to land a ship every yEar In July 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry, with a squadron of four ships-of-war entered Uraga Bay, just south of Yokohama. He returned the next year and a treaty was signed to allow the opening of Shimoda (south of Numazu and Mishima) and Hakodate (on Hokkaido) to ships seeking provisions. This contact represented the 'opening' of Japan (Dai Nippon) to the modern world.
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Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854, under the command of Commmodore M.C. Perry, United States navy / by order of the government of the United States (Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer, 1856), v.1, 418.
Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer.
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858
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Lithographs
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The serpent with eight heads.
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Chirimen books are thought to have been invented in August 1885, when a Japanese fairy tale series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1936). The books were illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. Thirty-one popular Japanese folktales were translated into English. Under special contract with Griffith, Farran & Co., the first 16 books of the fairy tale series were printed by Kobunsha with the Griffith, Farran & Company imprint. The special printings for Griffith, Farran & Company were published ca 1888. Pictured is the cover for no. 9. 'The Serpent with Eight Heads' showing the top half of the huge Eight-Headed Serpent - the other half spans the back cover of the book.
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Japanese fairy tale series [Tokyo, The Kobunsha; London, Griffith, Farran, 188-?].
Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938.
Kobunsha
Griffith, Farran & Company.
1888
Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938
Book covers
Covers (Illustration)
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The Matsuyama Mirror.
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Chirimen books are thought to have been invented in August 1885, when a Japanese fairy tale series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1936). The books were illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. Thirty-one popular Japanese folktales were translated into English. Under special contract with Griffith, Farran & Co., the first 16 books of the fairy tale series were printed by Kobunsha with the Griffith, Farran & Company imprint. The special printings for Griffith, Farran & Company were published ca 1888. Pictured is the cover for: no. 10. 'The Matsuyama Mirror' showing both mother and daughter in their best clothes, with the mother holding the mirror that her husband gave to her when he returned from his journey to Matsuyama city.
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Japanese fairy tale series [Tokyo, The Kobunsha; London, Griffith, Farran, 188-?].
Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938.
Kobunsha
Griffith, Farran & Company.
1888
Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938
Book covers
Covers (Illustration)
Wood blocks
eng
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Tongue cut sparrow.
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Chirimen books are thought to have been invented in August 1885, when a Japanese fairy tale series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1936). The books were illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. Thirty-one popular Japanese folktales were translated into English. Under special contract with Griffith, Farran & Co., the first 16 books of the fairy tale series were printed by Kobunsha with the Griffith, Farran & Company imprint. The special printings for Griffith, Farran & Company were published ca 1888. Pictured is the cover for no. 2. 'Tongue Cut Sparrow' showing the tongue cut sparrow's wife and children laughing at the cross old woman who cut the sparrows tongue, as she struggles to carry the heavier of two wicker baskets offered to her by the tongue cut sparrow.
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Japanese fairy tale series [Tokyo, The Kobunsha; London, Griffith, Farran, 188-?].
Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938.
Kobunsha
Griffith, Farran & Company.
1888
Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938
Book covers
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Map of Laputa and Luggnag.
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The Magistrates of the Town hearing of my Letter, received me as a Publick Minister, they provided me with Carriages and Servants, and bore my Charges to Yedo [Tokyo], where I was admitted to an Audience, and delivered my Letter, which was opened with great Ceremony, and explained to the Emperor...'. So wrote Lemuel Gulliver of his visit to Japan in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". In reality, many foreigners spent years in Japan, never once obtaining an audience with the Emperor. The map of Laputa and Luggnag also contains a map of Japan.
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Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts. / by Lemuel Gulliver (London : printed for Benj. Motte, 1726).
Variant title: [Gulliver
London : printed for Benj. Motte.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Maps
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Indiae orientalis ... .
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Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), rightly called the 'Father of Modern Cartography', developed the idea of assembling a compendium of maps to form an atlas. The first edition of his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" was published in 1570 and it was a great success. This facsimile edition depicts China and Japan, albeit with a rather bulbous island of Honshu, and a much diminished and broken version of Hokkaido, Shikoku and Kyushu. Ortelius prided himself on using the best possible sources for the maps and the textual descriptions; later sixteenth century editions depicted the Great Wall of China.
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Theatrum orbis terrarum (Lausanne : Sequoia, 1964), fol. 48.
Lausanne : Sequoia.
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Facsimile
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A view of Fusy-yama : from a Japanese drawing.
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"Towering over all in the western distance, but too often concealed by clouds, the majestic Fusi-yama reared its conical summit" (Oliphant, 1859, v. II, p. 97).
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Elgin
Hong Kong : Oxford University Press.
Oliphant, Laurence, 1829-1888
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Kotto : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs [front cover].
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This first edition contains a selection of Japanese legends and stories, including nine tales from old Japanese books to illustrate some strange beliefs. Hearn adds: 'They are only curios.'
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Kotto? : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs / collected by Lafcadio Hearn ; with illustrations by Genjiro Yeto (New York : Macmillan ; London : Macmillan & Co., 1902).
New York : Macmillan ; London : Macmillan & Co.
Yeto, Genjiro (Illustrator)
Book covers
Covers (Illustration)
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Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan [front cover].
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn reinvented himself. He was known as Patrick in his native Ireland, Lafcadio in America, and Yakumo Koizumi in Japan. He wrote 11 substantial books about his adopted country. On arrival he was given useful advice: 'Do not fail to write down your first impressions as soon as possible. They are evanescent, you know; they will never come to you again...'. Here in the first UK edition of Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is his description of his first day in Japan.
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Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan / by Lafcadio Hearn (London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Tru?bner, [1894?]).
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Tru?bner.
Fels, Willi
Book covers
eng
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Japan, an attempt at interpretation [front cover].
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is almost as Japanese as haiku. Both are an art form, an institution in Japan. Haiku is indigenous to the nation; Hearn became a Japanese citizen and married a Japanese [Setsu Koizumi], taking the name Yakumo Koizumi. His flight from Western materialism brought him to Japan in 1890. His search for beauty and tranquillity, for pleasing customs and lasting values, kept him there the rest of his life, a confirmed Japanophile. He became the great interpreter of things Japanese to the West. His keen intellect, poetic imagination and wonderful clear style permitted him to penetrate to the very essence of things Japanese - from Tuttle's 'publisher's foreword' to Hearn editions. Hearn arrived in Japan in 1890 and through his friendship with Basil Hall Chamberlain, he was able to secure various teaching positions, including a post at the Tokyo Imperial University. This reprint edition contains his many lectures on Japan and Japanese life.
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Japan, an attempt at interpretation / by Lafcadio Hearn (New York : MacMillan, 1907, c1904).
New York : MacMillan.
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University of Otago Library Special Collections - BL 2201 HD89
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Tokohou : [the story of Prince Tokugawa the fifteenth].
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In 1867, the last shōgun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, resigned and the Emperor, Mutsuhito, regained the position of actual head of government. Mutsuhito took the name Meiji ('enlightened government') to designate his reign and this became his imperial title. The royal capital was transferred to Edo, renamed Tokyo ('eastern capital'). This late nineteenth century concertina format publication documents the history of the Tokugawa shōgun. In what is a typical Japanese publication, both sides of the paper have text and images.
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Tokogawa Jugodaiki [The Chronicles of the Tokugawa Shogun]
1880/1889
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University of Otago Library Special Collections - N 7350 TM41
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Things Japanese : being notes on various subjects connected with Japan for the use of travellers and others [front cover].
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Things Japanese : being notes on various subjects connected with Japan for the use of travellers and others / by Basil Hall Chamberlain. 3rd ed. (London : Murray ; Yokohama [Japan] : Kelly and Walsh, 1898).
London : Murray ; Yokohama [Japan] : Kelly and Walsh.
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eng
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University of Otago Library Special Collections (Brasch) - DS 821CE24 1898
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Textile patterns.
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This book contains 64 colourful printed textile patterns produced by the Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa, who flourished c. 1893-1905. The pages are double folded in the Japanese style. Kyoka zuan is one of the important collections of textile patterns for Nishijin-ori, for which Kyoto is famous.
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Kyoka zuanjo : [Ideas for elegent designs] / Nagatani (Tokyo : Yamaha, 1891).
Tokyo : Yamaha.
jpn
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University of Otago Library Special Collections - N 7350 N378
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Settling debts at a merchants house.
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A typical scene at a merchant's house during the year-end when all outstanding bills must be settled. One clerk works the abacus, another weighs the silver and a third makes entries in the ledger. Three tradesmen have arrived to present their final accounts for the yEar At the right stands the gate pine (kadomatsu), a traditional New Year's decoration symbolizing longevity and endurance. (Saikaku, 1963, p. 241).
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The life of an amorous woman : and other writings / by Ihara Saikaku ; edited and translated by Ivan Morris (London : Chapman & Hall, 1963).
London : Chapman & Hall.
jpn
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University of Otago Library Special Collections - PL 794 L5 1963
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Momotaro.
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Chirimen books are thought to have been invented in August 1885, when a Japanese fairy tale series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1936). The books were illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. Thirty-one popular Japanese folktales were translated into English. Under special contract with Griffith, Farran & Co., the first 16 books of the fairy tale series were printed by Kobunsha with the Griffith, Farran & Company imprint. The special printings for Griffith, Farran & Company were published ca 1888. Pictured is the cover for: no. 1. 'Momotaro' showing Momotaro and his three followers - a dog, a monkey and a pheasant - breaking through the front gate of the Island of the Devils.
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Japanese fairy tale series [Tokyo, The Kobunsha; London, Griffith, Farran, 188-?].
Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938.
Kobunsha
Griffith, Farran & Company.
1888
Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938
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Woodcuts
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University of Otago Library Special Collections - PL 782 E8 JB4 no.1
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The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors in their journey to Court.
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In 1691 Kaempfer (a physician) travelled with the Dutch ambassadors from Nagasaki to Yedo, seeking an audience with Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors, in their journey to court, compos'd of the following persons. 1, 2. Dutch and Japanese cooks, with the kitchin Furniture They always set out sometime before us. 3. Two guides appointed by the Lords of several provinces to attend us in our passage thro' their dominions. 4. The train-master. 5. A led-horse of the Dutch Ambassador. A Dosen, one of the Governor's soldiers of the second rank. 7. A chest with medicines. 8. A strong box with money. 9. The Dutch Ambassador in his Norimon, carried by four men alternately, with three servants to attend him. 10. The chief Interpreter secretaries of the Embassy, each with one servant. 15. Dr. Kaempfer, a physician. 16. A Deputy Interpreter. 17. Another Bailiff of Nagaasaki. 18. The led-horse of the Bugjo. 19. The Bugjo's pikebearer. 20. The Bugjo, or Commander-in-chief, in his Norimon, with several servants, carried alternately by three men. 21. Some of his friends taking leave of him. 22. Some of our friends from Nagasaki who keep us company two of three miles out of town. The train is preceded by two clerks. (Kaempfer, 1906, v. II facing p. 368).
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The history of Japan : together with a description of the kingdom of Siam, 1690-92... / translated by J.G. Scheuchzer (Glasgow : James Maclehose, 1906) v.II, facing p. 368.
Glasgow : James Maclehose.
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The Shogun's audience.
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A. Is the throne or Audience-seat of his majesty, where he shows himself to his Princes and Nobles.
B. Are the buildings in which his Majesty is housed, consisting of more than seventy dwelling-places.
C. Are the buildings in which his majesty deals with all the affairs of his Realm, being as many as B.
D. Is the Palace wherein dwell the Emperor's women, with its attached pleasure-gardens and summer-houses; the chiefest part whereof is reserved for the Empress alone, and the remainder for the concubines, all covering a vast extent of ground. ... (Caron, 1935, facing p. 56).
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A true description of the mighty kingdoms of Japan & Siam, by Francois Caron & Joost Schouten; reprinted from the English edition of 1663 with introduction, notes and appendixes by C. R. Boxer (London, The Argonaut Press, 1935), facing p. 56.
London, The Argonaut Press.
Caron, Franc?ois, 1600-1673
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University of Otago Library Special Collections: Oversize - DS 808 C915
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