Books from the 19th & Early 20th Centuries

[Baka Gaijin]

Edited Saturday 3rd September 2011

 

Morning all, here's more than a few links to some interesting 17th to early 20th Century books.

 

According to the website, they are all in the Public Domain and can be printed off or converted to disc. (Some of them are Kindle friendly).

 

If there are any restrictions, they are detailed in the small print.

 

Latest additions:

 

Warriors of old Japan & other Stories - Yei Theodora Ozaki - Published 1909

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/warriorso ... 7/mode/2up

 

The Japanese Fairy Book - Yei Theodora Ozaki - Published 1903

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/cu3192402 ... 0/mode/2up

 

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Here's the gran'daddy of travel books by Johan Nieuhof 1618 - 1672 (and although not Japan related, certainly responsible for much of the western hack imagery of China & Japan in the 17th - 19th centuries).

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/lambassad ... 3/mode/2up

 

(The actual drawings of 1658 were thought lost until found recently (1984) amongst papers in the collection of Prince Roland Bonaparte).

 

Hagakure: Book of the Samurai - Yamamoto Tsuneo - (Opensource no other details)

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/Hagakure- ... 3/mode/2up

 

Gods & Heroes of Old Japan by Violet M Pasteur - Published in 1906

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/godsheroe ... 5/mode/2up

 

Occult Japan by Percival Lowell - Published c. 1894

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/occultjap ... 0/mode/2up

 

Tales of the Samurai by Asataro Miyamori - Published in 1920

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/talesofsa ... 7/mode/2up

 

 

Agitated Japan - The Life of Ii Naosuke by H. Satoh - Published 1896

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/agitatedj ... 2/mode/2up

 

 

A History of Japan 1853 - 1869 by Kinsei Shiriaku (Trans: E.M. Satow) - Published 1873

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/kinsshiri ... 6/mode/2up

 

 

The First Japanese Embassy to U.S.A. (1860) - Published 1920

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/firstjapa ... 7/mode/2up

 

 

Epochs of Chinese & Japanese Art - Vol 1 by Ernest Fenollosa - Published c.1912

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/epochsofc ... 9/mode/2up

 

 

Epochs of Chinese & Japanese Art - Vol 2 by Ernest Fenollosa - Published c.1912

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/epochsofc ... 1/mode/2up

 

 

Noh - Accomplishment by Ernest Fenollosa & Ezra Pound - Published 1916

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/nohoracco ... 0/mode/2up

 

 

The Japanese Sword & its Fittings (Museum Monograph) - New York - 1966

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/japaneses ... 5/mode/2up

 

 

The Bamboo Garden by A.B. Mitford (Lord Redesdale) - Published in 1896

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/bamboogar ... 9/mode/2up

 

 

The Satsuma Rebellion by Augustus Mounsey Published in 1879

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/satsumare ... 4/mode/2up

 

 

The Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi by Walter Denning - Published 1888

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/lifetoyot ... 5/mode/2up

 

 

Thrilling stories of the Russo Japanese War by J Martin Miller - copyright 1904

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/thrilling ... 5/mode/2up

 

 

Japanese Homes and their Surroundings by Edward S Morse - Published 1889

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/japaneseh ... 4/mode/2up

 

 

In Togo's Country -Some studies in Satsuma - Henry Schwarz - Published 1908

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/intogosco ... 6/mode/2up

 

 

Japanese Topsyturvydom by Mrs E. S. Patton - Published in 1896

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/japaneset ... 1/mode/2up

 

 

Sketches of Japanese Manners & Customs by J. M. W, Silver - Published in 1867

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesj ... 1/mode/2up

 

 

Manners & Customs of the Japanese by Philipp Franz von Siebold - Published in 1841

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/mannersan ... 6/mode/2up

 

 

The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo - Published in 1919

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/bookoftea ... 7/mode/2up

 

 

Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn - Published Leipzig 1907

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/kwaidanst ... 6/mode/2up

 

 

And here's the Film pt 1:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE3mJvsOtk4

 

 

Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn - Published 1896

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/kokorohin ... 8/mode/2up

 

 

Saito Musashi Bo Benkei by James S de Benneville - Published Yokohama 1910

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/saitmusas ... 8/mode/2up

 

 

Transactions & Proceedings of the Japan Society of London Vol 1 1892 - published 1893

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/transacti ... 8/mode/2up

 

 

The Classical Poetry of the Japanese by Basil Hall Chamberlain - Published 1880

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/classical ... 2/mode/2up

 

 

Things Japanese by Basil Hall Chamberlain - Published 1902

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/thingsjap ... 6/mode/2up

 

 

A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese by Basil Hall Chamberlain - Published 1907

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/hand00boo ... 3/mode/2up

 

 

Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan - Yokohama 1885

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/transacti ... 4/mode/2up

 

 

Imperial Japan - The Country & Its People by George William Knox - Published 1905

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/imperialj ... 0/mode/2up

 

 

The Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East - Vol XIII Japan - Published 1917

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/sacredboo ... 1/mode/2up

 

 

Shinto - The Ancient Religion of Japan - by W.G. Aston - Published 1905

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/MN40077uc ... 5/mode/2up

 

 

Tales of Old Japan Vol I by A. B. Mitford (Lord Redesdale) - Published 1871

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/talesoldj ... 7/mode/2up

 

 

Tales of Old Japan Vol II by A. B. Mitford (Lord Redesdale) - Published 1871

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/talesoldj ... 7/mode/2up

 

 

Japan in Days of Yore by Walter Denning - Published 1881

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/japaninda ... 5/mode/2up

 

 

Japan in Days of Yore (Musashi version) - Published 1905

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/japaninda ... 9/mode/2up

 

 

Bushido by Inazo Nitobe - Published 1905

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/bushidoso ... 8/mode/2up

 

 

Ehon Taikoki (Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) by Takeuchi Kakusai - Published 1914 (3 Volumes)

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/ehontaiko ... 5/mode/2up

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/ehontaiko ... 3/mode/2up

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/ehontaiko ... 3/mode/2up

 

(Japanese text, lots of woodblock illustrations - Japanese format)

 

 

Tsuba in the collection of the Cooper - Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian Institute) - Published 1980

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/tsubajapa ... 3/mode/2up

 

 

The fighting man of Japan by F.J. Norman - Published 1905

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/fightingm ... 9/mode/2up

 

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[estcrh]

Another great looking book to add to the list, thanks!

[Toryu2020]

Has anybody figured out how to load these onto an iPad?

 

-t

[Baka Gaijin]

Try:

 

http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/ ... ing_itunes

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[estcrh]

Japanese Topsyturvydom by Mrs E. S. Patton - Published in 1896

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/japaneset%20...%200/mode/2up

 

Just read this one...great pictures and observations by the author on the little differences between cultures...The part about how the Japanese would store their valuable artifacts in a fireproof "kura" is interesting and the observation on the absolute respect for police also.

[Justin Grant]

Thanks Malcom!

 

I just received my Hardback copy of the Satsuma Rebellion from Barnes and Noble.

[Baka Gaijin]

Bump!! Some really rare ones just listed in the first post 30th July 2010

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[Baka Gaijin]

Bump Post 1 with four new titles including a piece about Musashi Miyamoto (Japan in Days of Yore).

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[Baka Gaijin]

Bump Post 1 with four new titles including an account of a Seppuku ceremony (Tale of Old Japan - A.B. Mitford).

& Miyamoto Musashi (Japan in Days of Yore - Musashi volume - 1905)

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[Baka Gaijin]

Bump!

 

Check out the account of the First Embassy to USA in 1860.....Fascinating.

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[Baka Gaijin]

Minasan

 

Bump! 2 new titles 2nd sept 2010

 

cheers

 

Malcolm

[ububob]

Thanks for adding to my growing bibliography. :D

[Baka Gaijin]

Morning all

 

Bumped today added:

 

Ehon Taikoki 3 Volume life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to first post of the thread.

 

It's Japanese text with woodblock illustrations.

 

 

Cheers

 

 

Malcolm

[kusunokimasahige]

Thank you for the Ehon Taikoki !!!

 

Was looking for that one !

 

Very good images on the Imjin wars period in there.

 

KM

[Baka Gaijin]

Morning all

 

Bump

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[ububob]

Malcom, again my sincere thanks for maintaining this effort. :D

[Baka Gaijin]

Morning all,

 

Bump - Warriors of old Japan & The Japanese Fairy Book - See first posting on Page 1.

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm