Tokyo: Yamamura Kinzaburo, Meiji 13-8 [August] 1880.
Sensational series of three narrative color woodblock prints, which together illustrate one of the most notorious crimes in Meiji-era Japan, published a few weeks after the incident. The text cartouche at the head of the leftmost sheet explains the gruesome scene:
A young.....
![Gaikoku shashin kagami no zu. [Foreigners employing a camera.]. Mathew BRADY, Yoshikazu UTAGAWA](/pictures/thumb/85.png?v=1613478686)
Edo: 1860.
[BRADY, Mathew, 1822-1896]; Yoshikazu UTAGAWA fl. 1850-1870. Gaikoku shashin kagami no zu. [Foreigners employing a camera.] Ukiyo-e woodblock print produced by the nishiki-e process. [Edo], 11th month: 1860.
A remarkable artefact in the history of photography: an ukiyo-e print featuring Mathew Brady at his camera, produced in November.....
![改正增補蠻語箋 [Kaisei zōho Bangosen] [Revised and Supplemented Barbarian-Language...](/pictures/thumb/80.png?v=1612859859)
Edo: Kenjuku kankō, 1848.
A most compelling and complete Dutch-Japanese dictionary and phrasebook, published in Japan in the transitional moment between the Kōka and Kaei eras in the years before the Meiji restoration and the end of Japan's isolationist policies. The two-volume dictionary would have been of great value to.....