Hardcover. NY, Knopf`, 1st, 2019, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Tokyo, Japan, Kodansha International Ltd. , 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has a few lamination issues, otherwise very good--no rips or tears. Textured gray cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, blind-stamped design on front cover board. A touch of tanning to edges, pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In excellent condition. Naito traces the historical story of Katsura, while photographer, Nishikawa worked for five years to put together this visual portrait.

Hardcover. Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office University of Michigan, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 507 pages. Hardcover. Reprint of 1857 J.B. Lippincott & Co. publication produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University's Library's preservation reformatting program. B/w illustrations throughout. Pages clean, spine straight, binding tight. ISBN label on back cover. Light foxing to edges. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. "Visits to the Malay and Loo-Choo Islands, the Coasts of China, Formosa, Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, and the Mouth of the Amoor River."

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 430 pages illustrated in b&w and color by Yee. "Customs and rituals, dress and language, poetry and drama, painting and sculpture, kites and carp, trees and flowers, everything is revealed to us in Mr. Yee's inimitable text and delightful drawings. Familiar centers and out-of-the-way corners of Japan all come under the Silent Traveller's scrutiny -- Tokyo's Ginza, a Shinto dance at Ise, Kyoto's Phoenix Hall, cormorant-fishing in Gifu, Mt. Fuji, an Ainu village, the five hundred arhats, the beardless hippies of Tokyo, the perennial towel-bearing bathers at a resort hotel, the phenomenon of the marimos, red-crested cranes -- and much more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hobart Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in orange and black. Three introductory pages of text; balance of book consists entirely of 77 black and white photographs with descriptive captions. Plates showing temples, traditional Japanese residences and businesses, Japanese people at work and at play, a karuma carriage, Yokohama Bay, etc. Clean, bright copy.