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  • AKUTAGAWA, Ryunosuke.
    $150.00
    NY: Mushinsha/Grossman (1970). First US edition. 131 pp. Two leaves corner-creased (production flaw) else very near fine in like dust jacket. Near fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase (one small stain). Translated from the original Japanese by Will Petersen. Illustrated color reproductions of twelve etchings by Tanaka Ryoheim, that are tipped-on.
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    ARATA, Maeda.
    $75.00
    [Berkeley]: Richard Seibert, 2012. First edition. 20 x 9 3/8 inch illustrated broadside, printed in seven colors. Fine. Poem in the original Japanese and English translation by Andrew Barshay. Illustration by Fritz Springmeyer. Impressive letterpress work!
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    BLYTH, R.H.
    $35.00
    Tokyo: Hokuseido Press (1942). First edition. xv + 446 pp w/index. Slight lean to spine (which is sunned), else very good in full blue cloth with printed spine label (rubbed). Lacks dust jacket.
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    HALFORD, Aubrey S. and Giovanna M.
    $25.00
    Rutland & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle (1971). First edition. 487 pp w/index. Rubbing to lower boards, lean to spine. In all, very good plus in like dust jacket
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    HIROSHIGE.
    $25.00
    NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Viking Press (1980). First edition. Fifty-four panels bound between two cloth-covered boards with printed cover label (two smalls spots on label). Near fine publisher’s cardstock slipcase with printed spine. Introduction by Bryan Holme. Two b&w promotional photographs laid in.
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    IZUMO, Takeda with Miyoshi Shoraku and Namiki Senryu.
    $25.00
    NY & London: Columbia University Press, 1971. First printing of this edition. x + 183 pp w/works consulted list. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny chip to base of spine. Translated from the original Japanese by Donald Keene with his preface.
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    KAWABATA, Yasunari.
    $125.00
    Palo Alto: Kodansha (1969). First US edition. 149 pp w/notes. Slight lean to spine, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. Translated from the original Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker. Introduction by Yukio Mishima.
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    KAWABATA, Yasunari.
    $75.00
    London: S/2 (2019). First edition. 272 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Kawabata’s text in English translation paired with artworks by Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Wally Hedrick, Pierre Molinier, Francis Picabia, Kurt Seligmann, and many others.
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    KAWABATA, Yasunari.
    $20.00
    Berkeley: North Point, 1987. Uncorrected proof. 164 pp. Light sunning to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the original Japanese by J. Martin Holman.
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    KENJI, Miyazawa.
    $35.00
    Berkeley: North Point Press, 1989. Uncorrected proof. 253 pp w/notes to the poems. Near fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the original Japanese by Hiroaki Sato. Promotional flyer laid in.
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    KITA, Miorio.
    $20.00
    Tokyo NY San Francisco: Kodansha International (1985). First US edition. 245 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Japanese by Donald Keene.
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    KOMACHI, Ono No and Izumi Shikibu.
    $35.00
    NY: Scribner’s (1988). First edition. 116 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Ancient Japanese court poems, translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani.
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    KORIYAMA, Naoshi and Edward Lueders. trans.
    $12.50
    Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1995. First edition. xxii + 244 pp w/indexes. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. More than two hundred and forty poems by eighty leading poets. Fine.
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    LEWIS, Richard. ed.
    $20.00
    NY: Simon & Schuster (1970). First edition. 95 pp. Fine in very near fine clipped, but not price-clipped, dust jacket. Translations from the original Japanese by Haruna Kimura.
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    MINORU, Yoshioka.
    $20.00
    Vancouver: Leech Books, 1991. First edition. 51 pp. Light foxing along top edge, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Japanese by Eric Selland.
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    MISHIMA, Yukio.
    $75.00
    NY: Knopf, 1956. First US edition. 182 pp. Slight lean to spine, else near fine in very good dust jacket with a closed tear to the rear panel, chips to crown, a few shallow chips and creases to front panel. Translated from the original Japanese by Meredith Weatherby. Illustrated with drawings by Yoshinori Kinoshita. The first Mishima title to appear in the US.
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    MITSUKO, Yoshida writing as “Omitsu.”
    $12.50
    [Berkeley]: Tangram, 2012. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Ten poems, translated from the original Japanese by Omitsu, with cover art by Leroy Cardwell.
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    MIYABE, Miyuki.
    $20.00
    Tokyo, NY, London: Kodansha International (2004). First US edition. 188 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
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    NONAMI, Asa.
    $20.00
    Tokyo, NY, London: Kodansha (1996). First US edition. 269 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
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    OSARAGI, Jiro.
    $20.00
    NY: Knopf, 1960. First US edition. 342 pp. Fine in very good plus dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine and uneven toning to rear panel. Translated from the original Japanese by Ivan Morris.
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    SATO, Hiroaki and Burton Watson. eds.
    $75.00
    Seattle: University of Washington Press (1981). First edition. xliv + 652 pp w/index. Foxing to page edges, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Thomas Rimer. “With the compliments of the author” slip laid in.
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    SHIRAISHI, Kazuko.
    $15.00
    NY: New Directions (1978). First trade paperback printing. vii + 86 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. This volume edited and with an introduction by Kenneth Rexroth, with translations by a team of Japanese and Americans.
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    SOSEKI, Natsume.
    $25.00
    Seattle & London: University of Washington Press (1977). First printing of this edition. x + 248 pp. Slight lean to spine, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with one short tear. Translated from the original Japanese by Jay Rubin, with a critical essay.
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    SOSEKI, Natsume.
    $12.50
    London & Chester Springs: Peter Owen (2006). First printing of this edition. xl + 217 pp w/glossary & select bibliographies. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Japanese by Francis Mathy. Introduction by Damian Flanagan.
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    TAKAGAI, Hiroya.
    $20.00
    Sausalito: Duration Press (1999). First edition. [44 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 copies. Translated from the original Japanese by Eric Selland. Duration Number Five.
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    TAKAHASHI, Mutsuo.
    $20.00
    Trumansburg: Crossing Press (1984). First trade paperback printing. 106 pp. Light sunning to spine, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the Japanese by Hiroaki Sato. Introduction by Robert Peters.
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    TAKAHASHI, Mutsuo.
    $12.50
    San Francisco: City Lights (1992). First edition. 105 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Poems translated from the Japanese by Hiroaki Sato, with his preface.
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    TEIKA, Fujiwara.
    $20.00
    Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967. First edition. ix + 148 pp w/bibliography & index of first lines. Small stamp on bottom edge, foxing to page edges. In all, near fine in very good plus dust jacket with toning to spine and extrems. Translated from the original Japanese, with an introduction and notes by Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner.
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    TOMIOKA, Taeko.
    $35.00
    Chicago: Chicago Review Press (1979). First trade paperback printing. 101 pp. A few small spots of foxing to page edges, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Burton Watson. Translated from the original Japanese by Hiroaki Sato.
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    YOSANO, Akiko.
    $75.00
    Lafayette: Purdue University Studies, 1971. First edition. 165 pp w/notes. Boards slightly splayed, light foxing to page edge. Ina ll, near fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning along spine and a few spot to rear cover. Translated from the original Japanese by Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda, with their introduction.
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    YOSHIMOTO, Banana.
    $15.00
    NY: Grove (1993). First US edition. 152 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to spine. Translated from the Japanese by Megan Backus.
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    YOSHIMOTO, Banana.
    $10.00
    Los Angeles: Buk America (2005). First US edition. 16 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Japanese by Ann Sherif.