THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE
First US edition of Murakami's tale of tracking down a missing cat in a subtly off-kilter contemporary Japan.
First US edition of Murakami's tale of tracking down a missing cat in a subtly off-kilter contemporary Japan.
Scarce and exceptional first edition thus, a light-hearted illustrated adaptation of the Creation and story of Adam and Eve from the Book of Genesis into Japanese.
First — likely suppressed — edition of the first book written for the Japanese public on the atomic bombs, printed a little more than a month after the events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and issued days after stringent allied censorship regulations went into effect.
Manuscript collection of three foreign affairs reports documenting late-Edo Japan's intelligence gathering and strategic planning around the years of Commodore Perry's armed arrival in 1853.
Signed first edition in English of this semi-autobiographical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author — the story of a man wrestling with the reality of his son being born with severe developmental disabilities.
Chronological and beautifully unified photo album detailing the construction and interior design of the now-lost Soviet embassy in Tokyo.
First edition of this photobook documenting the famous protests against the construction of Narita International Airport, known as the Sanrizuka Struggle.
Original photo album of a Japanese businessman's American travels, including stops in Seattle and Chicago before a longer stay in New York, and a visit to a Japanese family in Long Island.
Beautiful drafted set of partial sheets for the creation of cards used in the traditional game on classical Japanese poetry.
Photo-illustrated reporter's survey of bath houses and massage parlors of Japan in the 1970s.