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Red Azalea: Life and Love in China
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnchee Min
London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. -
Vedic and Mesopotamian Interactions
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartN. Kazanas
Adyar: The Adyar Library and Research Centre, The Theosophical Society, 2007. -
Katu Folktales and Society
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartInstitute of Research on Lao Culture and Society; Nancy A. Costello
Vientiane: Ministry of Information and Culture, Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society, 1993.A collection of stories of the Katu peoples of Vietnam and Laos. An oral storytelling tradition many stories are here recorded in Katu phonetically and with Lao and English translation.
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Three Years in Cachar: With a Short Account of the Manipur Massacre
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. J. Wright; James H. Hartley
London: S. W. Partridge & Co, [1895].An account by a lady missionary of life in Assam, describing the people and their way of life and her encounters with wild animals. It also includes her description of the events in Manipur in 1890-91 when a military expedition was sent to respond to the murders of five British soldiers by insurgent Manipuris. Five Manipuri commanders were hanged for waging war against the British, who installed the boy Meidingngu Churachand on the throne.
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A Nocturne and Other Malayan Stories and Sketches
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Swettenham; William R. Roff
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993.Sir Frank Swettenham (1850-1946) was the first Resident General, from 1896 to 1901, of the Federated Malay States, which brought together the states of Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang. “His interest in the country and its people is reflected in the wide range of his stories and sketches.” (from wrapper)
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Tohoku Japan, 10-15 June, 1999
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Great Nippon Travel Agent]
[Tokyo]: Great Nippon Travel Agent, 1999.Photo album for a Sydney family’s trip to Northern Japan together with a 10 leaf itinerary (printed recto only). Of particular note is the signed introductory letter, which even accounting for rough translation offers a concerning glimpse into the tour: “We hope that you behave reasonably well in front of our chief tour conductor,.. not insisting so much with your traditional habit back home. You are encouraged to consume as much alcohol as you wish while traveling by car, unless you are taking your turn on the wheel, otherwise you as well as your tour conductors will be in trouble with the local police. Your chief conductor,.. already has enough remarkable records with the police without your additional helps to make it even more memorable from the police’s point of view.”
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The Rock Photography
AU$165.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRex R. Kubota; Erica Nakada
Tokyo: Sunday-sha, 1979.Photography of 1970s Japanese rock bands on and off stage. Photographs by Masakazu Sakomizu, George Ide, Takumi Uchida, Kenji Suzuki, and Nobuhiro Sakagami. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at January 2022.
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Sky Walker’s Sightseeing
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMasuda Yoshiro; Uchibori Hidetaka
[Osaka]: Masuda Yoshiro and Uchibori Hidetaka, 2003.Artist photography book, largely architectural photographs and photographs taken from high vantage points. A collaboration between Japanese photography Masuda Yoshiro and designer Uchibori Hidetaka. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Temple Dances in Bali
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTyra de Kleen
Stockholm: Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, 1936.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. The Temple Dances in Bali includes short text on the Legong, Chalon Arong, and Joghed dances, costume, and music, with illustrations in the text, complimented by numerous captioned plates by Kleen. First published in Swedish in a limited edition of 300 copies as Tempeldanser och musikinstrument pa Bali, and here translated into English for the first time. The Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, Stockholm (Statens Etnografiska Museum) New Series, Publication No. 2.
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Mie Kimono Shiryokan Zuroku
AU$55.00 Read MoreAdd to cartUeda Mie
Tokyo: Mie Kimono Shiryokan, 1983.Catalogue of kimono designs.
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A Potter’s Tale
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRamu Velar
India: Tara Books, 2021.“The first title in Tara’s ‘Makers’ series, this book unfolds as a life narrative as Ramu Velar tells us how he views his craft, vocation and life. Just as his fingers deftly mould a lump of clay to create sturdy pots and beautifully carved bowls, his memory creates sharp as well as dreamy vignettes – of his journey from a village potter to a resident craftsman in a museum. Richly textured photographs and evocative illustrations bring alive the world of an unusual and introspective artisan.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Visions of the Floating World: The Cartoon Art of Japan
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Cotta Vaz
San Francisco: Cartoon Art Museum, 1992.Scarce catalogue for an exhibition of Japanese comic art at the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco. 2 copies in OCLC. Unrecorded in CiNii.
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Genshoku Nihon no Bijutsu 28 [Primary Colours of Japanese Art 28: Modern Architecture, Sculpture, Crafts]
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerukazu Akiyama
Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1972. -
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Genshoku Nihon no Bijutsu 25 [Primary Colours of Japanese Art 25: Nanban Art and Western-style Painting]
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerukazu Akiyama
Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1970. -
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Genshoku Nihon no Bijutsu 10 [Primary Colours of Japanese Art 10: Zen Temple and Stone Garden]
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerukazu Akiyama
Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1967. -
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Genshoku Nihon no Bijutsu 4 [Primary Colours of Japanese Art 4: Shosoin]
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerukazu Akiyama
Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1968. -
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Genshoku Nihon no Bijutsu 1 [Primary Colours of Japanese Art 1: Ancient Japanese Art]
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTerukazu Akiyama
Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1970. -
Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLiz P. Y. Chee
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021.“A history of the rising use of “medicinal animals” in modern China. While animal parts and tissue had been present in Chinese medicine from an early date, the book argues that their role in the Chinese pharmacopiea greatly expanded and became systematized in the changed political and economic circumstances of the early Communist period. Mao’s Bestiary is the first book to place medicinal animals squarely within the historiography of Chinese medicine. In an age of controversy over the ethics and efficacy of faunal medicalization, its perpensity to foster zoonotic diseases and its devastating effect on wildlife conservation in China and worldwide, the book contributes a much-needed historical perspective, explaining the modern origins of what is too casually taken to be traditional practice” (publisher’s blurb)
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An Exhibition of Kabuki Stage Costumes
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartShochiku; Tetsuya Okazaki
Tokyo: Shochiku, 1998. -
Collection of Pictures on Japanese Military Germ Warfare
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJin Chengmin
Hulunbuir: Inner Mongolia Culture Press, 2010.Photographs and details on Japan’s chemical warfare Unit 731.