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Item #80 改正增補蠻語箋 [Kaisei zōho Bangosen] [Revised and Supplemented...
A Comprehensive Late Edo-Period Dutch-Japanese Dictionary and Phrasebook.

改正增補蠻語箋 [Kaisei zōho Bangosen] [Revised and Supplemented Barbarian-Language Syllabary]

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.....

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Item #159 Sugitoya shichiningiri no zu. Hashimoto NAOYOSHI, Yoshu Chikanobu
Harrowing Nishiki-e Triptych of a Notorious Mass Murder at a Tokyo Brothel in 1880.

Sugitoya shichiningiri no zu.

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.....

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