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A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArchibald E. Glover
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.A Personal Record of God’s Delivering Power from the Hands of the Imperial Boxes of Shan-si. An account of fleeing China during the Boxer Rebellion by a missionary of the China Inland Mission. The second, or Popular Edition.
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Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel (4 Volumes)
AU$700.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLuo Guanzhong
London: The Folio Society, 2013.Translation and introductory essay by Moss Roberts, introduction by Ma Jian. FORD-SMITH 1836.
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Ten Days That Shook the World
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Reed
London: The Folio Society, 2006.Preface by John Simpson. Introduction by A. J. P. Taylor. Foreword by V. I. Lenin. Maps by Neil Gower. FORD-SMITH 1324.
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Momoyama Tea Utensils: A New View
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCuratorial Division, Nezu Museum
Tokyo: Nezu Museum, 2018.Catalogue for an exhibition of ceramics from the Momoyama period, and the start of the Edo period.
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Mudras: The Ritual Hand-poses of the Buddha Priests and the Shiva Priests of Bali
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTyra de Kleen
New Hyde Park: University Books, 1970.Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) was a Swedish artist, ethnographic researcher, keen theosophist, cosmopolitan woman of the world, and a founding member of Foreningen Svenska Konstnarinnor (The Association of Swedish Women Artists). Kleen studied painting in Germany and France, lived and socialised with the cultural elite in Rome at the turn of the 19th century, and travelled, exhibited, and socialised extensively around the world. A fiercely independent character, despite rampant misogyny, she managed to skilfully manoeuvre and at times manipulate to achieve her ambitious goals. She spent many years throughout the 1910s and 1920s in Indonesia, studying ceremonial dance, and produced a number of books on dance, theatre, and ritual in Java and Bali, and in 1938 was awarded the Johan August Wahlberg for her work there. Mudras, first published as Mudras auf Bali. Handhaltungen der Priester in 1923 and then in English in 1924 and here reprinted for the first time with the original introduction by A. J. D. Campbell and a new foreword by Omar V. Garrison.
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Hyakunin Joro Shinasadame [One Hundred Women Classified According to Their Rank]
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNishikawa Sukenobu
Kyoto: Unsodo, No date.One of the masterpieces of Ukiyoe art. Depicts women from various social classes of the Edo period, from court and samurai ladies to geisha and sex workers, and the many town and country women in between. Originally published in 2 volumes in 1723 and here reprinted together in 1 volume circa late 19th/early 20th century.
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Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Prip-Moller
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1967.A labour of love originally published in 1937 by Danish architect Johannes Prip-Moller (1889-1943). Thoroughly researched and illustrated throughout with photographs, floor plans, and architectural illustrations, this tome is still regarded as the definitive work on the subject and provides invaluable insight into Chinese Buddhist monastic life.
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Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
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[Architecture of the Kaluga Region: From Antiquity to the Present Day]
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. C. Dneprovskiy-Orbeliani
Kaluga: N. F. Bochkareva, 2006. -
South Manchuria Railway 1935
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSouth Manchuria Railway Company
Dairen: South Manchuria Railway Company, 1935.Traces the history, development, and administration of The South Manchuria Railway Company as it expanded its enterprises to influence almost all areas of economic, political and social life in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. This copy with the company’s New York office stamp to the title page and with the 1936 Statistical Abstract laid in.
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Binding Culture into Thread: Textile Arts of Biboki, West Timor
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFiona Leibrick
Darwin: Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory / The Centre for Southeast Asia Studies, Northern Territory University, 1994. -
Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoshua S. Mostow; Norman Bryson: Maribeth Graybill
Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003. -
From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSusan J. Napier
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. -
Anime and Memory: Aesthetic, Cultural and Thematic Perspectives
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDani Cavallaro
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2009. -
Anime Intersections: Tradition and Innovation in Theme and Technique
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDani Cavallaro
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2007. -
Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDani Cavallaro
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2010. -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYoshio Sugimoto
Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2009. -
Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHiroki Azuma
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.Translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono.
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Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. S. Eades; Tom Gill; Harumi Befu
Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2000. -
Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark W. MacWilliams
New York: M. E. Sharpe, [2008].