A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English


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Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided.




Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan


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The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.




The Cumulative Book Index


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A world list of books in the English language.







The Publishers Weekly


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The Mikado's empire


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The Gospel Trumpet


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