- With 3 sm. brown spots, otherwise fine.
AND 7 other ink drawings of bamboo and flowers. - ADDED: 1 sheet of calligraphy.
= Both woodcuts are rare.
- Fine impression.
- Fine copies.
= Preface: "These books are not only designed to please children but to show manners and customs of the ancient and modern people of Nippon. The fine illustrations afford an important aid in this respect. It is through the eye that the understanding itself is most quickly reached." Emily Bishop Boulton, born in England on June 2, 1855, travelled out to Japan with Bishop Poole, the first English Bishop in the country, and Mrs. Poole, arriving in Osaka in December, 1883. She at once joined Miss Oxlad in the Eisei (Eternal Life) school, nucleus of the Bishop Poole Girls' School, in which also she worked for some years after its opening in 1890. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.
- Wrinkled. = Large calligraphed character "yokoshima", meaning wicked, evil or wrong.
- A few sm. dents/ worn spots on the feet.
= With a double card deck "Congress" advertising for the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company (±1955).
- Triptych leaves partly attached to each other w. paper on verso. A good copy.
- Two of the smaller watercolour chipped/ w. tear; one other w. sm. tear.
= Mostly showing flowers with butterflies (1x fruit and flowers).
- Lacks caps at the end of the rod, otherwise fine.
= A common subject in classical Chinese paintings, depicting a hundred boys (or children) playing various games, inviting good fortune.
= Fine example of a jade book.
= Comprises titles: Momotaro (1), La bataille du singe et du crabe (3), Le mont Katsi Katsi (5), Le seprent à huit têtes (9) and Le miroir de Matsouyama (10).
- Owner's entry and bookplate on verso frontwr.; a few foxed spots. Wrappers sl. foxed; sm. scribbling in black pen on frontwr.
= Rare publication, entirely printed on hosho paper. Originally published in German in Bunte Blatter, Japanischer Poesie von Karl Florenz (1896).
- Covers creased and (sl.) worn; modern string partly loosened.
= An interesting volume depicting a wide array of subjects, such as animals and plants, people from various origins and social backgrounds, people engaging in tea ceremony, I-Tjing, blades, coins, ikebana, various utensils, clothes and using an abacus.
- Frontcover w. later mounted strips of paper, worn away ticket and annots. in red and blue ink; later modern leaf tipped in on first leaf.
- Occasionally reinforced/ restored w. thin Japanese, particularly to replace lacking corners. Wr. creased and sl. worn; title-strip dam. and illegible.
= With unread title and signature, with seals (also unread).
= Scene showing the chief annual event at the Nigatsu-do hall in Nara, when the priests draw water from the sacred Wakasai Well to offer it before the altar and they pray to the Goddess of Mercy, the eleven-faced Kannon, for the welfare of the people and for a good harvest. During this ceremony young priests light 12 torches with which they draw imaginary circles of fire.
- Sl. soiled/ waterstained copy. Not examined outside frame. = Not in Pins.
- Both w. a few sm. wormholes and dam. spots.