Japan

Tiger-Cat, Japanese hanging-scroll mekuri

Japanese sumi-e ink and watercolor paintings on paper, A quintessential theme of Japanese painting

Japanese-Americans of the Mid-Columbia area and their relatives.

[An exceptional Asia souvenir export lacquer photograph album filled with 41 large hand- albumen images, five of which are hand coloured, including street scenes, occupational photos, harbour photos,, others documenting “flower boats” in Canton, China, temples, and more also presenting the diversity of Victorian Hong Kong architecture and scenery, Canton, China, Saigon, and Meiji-era Japan].

The Remains of the Day

2 issues of Japanese magazine "Ukiyo-e: A Journal of Floating World Art" with special SHUNGA sections, numbers 65 (Feb. 1976), 71 (August 1977)

"Historia de las Misiones - Que Han Hecho los Religiosos de la Compania de Iesus, para predicar el Sancto Evangelio en la India Oriental, y en los Reynos de la China y Japon.", 2 vol. 1976 facsimile of the 1601 original, publ. in an edition of 200 in Japan

3-volume collection by Suehiro Maruo: MIDORI (Midori / Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show) - DDT - INUGAMI HAKASE (1988-2011), Suehiro Maruo is one of the most distinctive artists of Japanese underground manga and a major figure associated with the modern ero-guro aesthetic.

THE BEAR-WORSHIPPERS OF YEZO: And the Island of Karafuto [Saghalin] or The Adventures of the Jewett Family and Their Friend Oto Nambo + Manuscript version of similar story., 1883 book + letter + photos + a manuscript translation/version of THE BEARS IN MT. NAMTOKO, by Kenji Miyazawa, by a Japanese writer/teacher as a birthday gift to a friend.

1922-1923 – Travel brochure advertising voyages on the Toyo Kisen Kaisha (TKN) Oriental Steam Ship Company