S Uenoda (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; fading/discoloration; yellowing; duststaining on edges; text otherwise overall clean & tight. DJ present but has rubbing, edgewear, creases, chips, discoloration, tears, etc. 293 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, but frankly the boards are somewhat flexible - something of a cross between hardcover and softcover. No stated date, likely 1950s? Illustrated with photographs. Some edgewear, shelfwear and rubbing of covers, some discoloured areas on back cover, interior (aside from EMbassy stamp) is fine.…

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 194 pages. No dust jacket. Light pink paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Creasing to some pages. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Dent to edge of front board. Staining to bottom edge of rear board. …

Hardcover. iv, 260p., illustrated with b&w vignette photos (blurry); small book in flexible decorated boards, 7x5 inches, casing is edgeworn but still sound and square, readers' creasing to spine panel, paperstock toned, slight foxing to endsheets, a good copy. Text very cognizant of the outcome of "The Great Pacific War". Find instructions how to attend "bean-throwing ceremoney" (sic; p.32) and "shellfish gathering" (p.67). FYI, "This booklet is a revised edition of the one published in 1931, brought up-to-date" - and there was at least one more, also enlarged with revisions, that one paginated to 293p.…

Softcover. 8°, Original brochure with illustrated cover, slightly dusty and bumped at the edges. IV, 260 (1) pages with many b/w photos. Signature in ink on the front inside cover. Otherwise clean and in good condition. --- Originalbroschur mit illustriertem Einband, etwas angestaubt und randbestoßen. IV, 260 (1) Seiten mit vielen s/w Fotos. Namenszug in Tinte im vorderen Innendeckel. Ansonsten sauberes, gutes Exemplar. sorted by month / nach Monaten geordnet -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Genießen Sie den goldenen Herbst! Machen Sie es sich gemütlich , bei uns finden Sie sicher die passende Lektüre! -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! Jp.…

stiff wraps. Condition: Very good. Revised edition of the first printing of 1931. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Presentation from the publisher to the former owner. Bound in stiff wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Bound in light blue paper with title on front cover and spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Illustrated dust jacket with wrapping green and yellow design. Some fading to spine. Slight wear to head and tail of spine. Ink annotation to front endpaper. Wear to top and bottom edges of dust jacket including tearing and chipping. Pieces missing at head and tail of spine, from lower corner, and back cover bottom edge. 8vo, 293pgs.…

1951 Uenoda, S CALENDAR OF ANNUAL EVENTS IN JAPAN Tokyo: The Tokyo News Service, 1951 260pp, illus in b/w, softcover, cover worn and torn at edges, stamp and writing on first free page.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (holidays, japan ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Slightly dampstained. Stamped on front inside cover. Short gifter's inscription on front endpage.

Condition: Good. 1951 Tokyo News Service. 12mo., 260pp., photos, pictorial wraps. Good.Plud. Binding secure; not much wear; no owner marks. text Fine.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Good hardback copy in shelfworn dustjacket. vii, 293pp, b/w illustrations. Book.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Sehr gut. vii, 293 p., Ill. Der Schutzumschlag ist leicht berieben und bestoßen, ansonsten ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. / The dust jacket is slightly rubbed and bumped, otherwise a very good and clean copy without markings. -- CONTENTS -- JANUARY EVENTS -- Jan. 1. -- Japanese Celebrate First Three Days of Jan- uary as Most Important Period of Year- New Year's Morning-Spirit of New Life- Century-old Customs-Significance of New Year Food-Faith in Good Luck-Old Fash- ioned New Year Celebration-Activities on the Second Day Spirit of New Year Rejoic- ing in Former Days-Young People Celebrate Their Own Way. -- Jan. 1-5. -- New Year Pilgrimage to Shrines and Tem- ples -- Jan. 1-3. -- Sending and Receiving New Year Postal Cards -- Jan. 6. -- Ascetic Religious Practice in Winter to In- voke Divine Aid. -- Jan. 6. -- Kan-Geiko, or Winter Practice of Judo -- Jan. 10. -- Ebisu Shrines Hold Festival -- Jan. 12. -- Dressing of the Carp, Ceremony of the Ho- onji Temple, Taito Ward, Tokyo. -- Mid-Jan. -- Wrestling Tournament at Kokugi-kan, To- kyo, (Jan. 15 or thereabout) -- Jan. 15. -- National Holiday to Congratulate Young Men and Women Who attained Maturity . -- Mid-Jan- -- Ceremony of Reading New Year Poems at the Imperial Palace -- Jan. 15-16. -- Servants and Apprentices have Semi-Annual Holidays -- FEBURARY EVENTS -- Feb. 1. Display of Doll Sets for Girls' Festival -- Feb. 4. -- Throwing of Broiled Beans at Devils Marks the First Day of Spring Inari Shrines Celebrate the First Horse Day, According to the Lunar Calendar, which Falls on One of the First 12 Days of February -- Feb. 4. -- Sengakuji Temple Commemorates Brave Deeds of 47 Samurai -- MARCH EVENTS -- Mar. 3. -- Girls' Festival -- Mar. 12. -- Historic Ceremony of Drawing Holy Water at the Todaiji Temple, Nara. -- Mar. 13. -- Kasuga Shrine Festival in Nara with Histo- ry and Tradition of 12 Centuries -- Mar. 21. -- Spring Equinox -- Mar. 21. -- Death Anniversary of St. Kobo. -- APRIL EVENTS -- Apr. 1. -- Cherry Blossom Season Begins. -- Apr. 1. -- New School Term Begins -- Apr. 3. -- Spring Festival of Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine at Kamakura -- Apr. 4. -- Season for Shell-fish Gathering. -- Apr. 8. Buddha's Birthday Anniversary -- Apr. 10. Women's Week -- Apr. 11. -- Death Anniversary of Prince Shotoku. -- Apr. 13-15. -- Colorful Rites at Zojoji Temple, Minato ward, Tokyo, Marks Death Anniversary of St. Honen -- Apr. 14-15. -- Sanno Festival At Takayama, Gifu Pre- fecture -- Apr. 1st or 2nd Sunday. Textile Festival in Kyoto -- Apr. 22-25. -- Yasukuni Jinja Shrine Observes Its Spring Festival -- Apr. last -- Sunday. The Day is Set Aside for Confuncian Rites at Seido, Yushima, Tokyo -- Apr. 29. -- Emperor's Birthday, National Holiday -- MAY EVENTS -- May 1. -- Laborers Stage Big Demonstrations. -- May 1-5. -- Kite Flying Contest in Hamamatsu, Shizu- oka prefecture -- May 3. -- Constitution Day, National Holiday -- May 5. -- Boys' Festival -- May 10. -- Bird Week -- May 11 -- Cormorant Fishing Season on Nagara River Begins -- May 2nd Sunday. Mothers' Day -- May 14-16. -- Kanda Myojin Shrine Festival -- May 14. -- Summer Wrestling Tournament Begins on May 14 or Thereabout. -- May 15. -- Hollyhock Festival in Kyoto -- May 17. -- Tosho-gu Shrine Festival in Nikko -- May 17-18. -- Asakusa Shrine Festival in Taito Ward, Tokyo. -- May 20. -- St. Shinran's Birthday Anniversary. -- May 28. -- Festivals at All Fudo Temples -- JUNE EVENTS -- June 1. -- Season For Ayu Fishing -- June 4. -- "Visit Your Dentist Week" -- June 6, -- Ebara Jinja Shrine Festival in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo -- June 10. -- Time Observance Day -- June 12. -- Tsuyu (Rainy Season) Begins -- June 14. -- Rice Sprouts Transplanting Into Paddies with Picturesque Ceremony at Sumiyoshi Shrine in Osaka -- June 15. -- Hie Jinja Shrine Festival in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. -- June 15. -- Birthday Anniversary of St. Kobo -- Mid-June. -- Peiron Boat Race in Nagasaki -- Late in June. -- Iris Blooms in the Latter Half of June. -- June 21. -- Festival of Atsuta Shrine at Nagoya, Aichi -- Prefecture -- June 30. -- Shinto Purification Rites are Observed -- JULY EVENTS -- July 1. -- Season for Climbing Mt. Fuji -- July 1. -- Season for Night-singing Insects -- July 7. -- Tanabata Sama, or Star Festival -- July 10. -- Asakusa Kannon Temple Festival in Asa- kusa Park, Tokyo -- July 11-13. -- Wild Horse Breaking Festival at Soma, Horse Breeding Center, Fukushima Pre- fecture -- July 12. -- Green Fair for the Feast of Lanterns -- July 13-16. -- "O-bon," or Feast of Lanterns. -- July 13-16. -- Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo, Holds Festival for -- Departed Souls -- July 15. -- Summer Judo Training. -- July 15. -- Summer Vacation Starts -- July 17-24. -- Gion Festival in Kyoto. -- July 24-25. -- Temma-no-Tenjin Shrine Festival in Osaka -- July 22 or Earlier. Fireworks on Sumida River, Tokyo -- July -- Japanese People Eat Broiled Eels on the Day of the Ox during the Doyo -- July 31. -- Famous "Fighting Festival is Held at Oita, Kyushu -- July 31. -- Hakone Jinja Shrine in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Holds "Toro-nagashi " -- AUGUST EVENTS -- Aug. 6-8. -- Star Festival in Sendai. -- Aug. 6. -- Festival at Akita -- Aug. 6-8. -- Sumiyoshi Shrine on the One-time Island of Tsukuda, Tokyo. -- Aug. 7. -- Airing Clothes After Rainy Season. -- Aug. 8-17 -- or thereabout. Kamakura Carnival in Kama- kura Continues for Nine Days -- Aug. 10-17. -- Nebuta Festival in Aomori and Hirosaki -- Aug. 15. -- "Toro-nagashi," or Lantern Offering on the Water of the Sumida River -- Aug. 22-25. -- Awa Dance Grips Tokushima, Shikoku -- Aug. 31. -- Mt. Fuji Closed for Climbing -- SEPTEMBER EVENTS -- Sept. 1. -- 1923 Earthquake-fire Anniversary. -- Sept. and Oct. -- Sept. 1 and 10. -- Season for Art Exhibition in Tokyo -- Sept. 11-13. -- Stormy Days -- Buddhists of Nichiren Sect Celebrate Pardon of St. Nichiren from Execution. -- Sept. 11-21. -- Historic Festival at Daijin-gu Shrine at Mi- nato Ward, Tokyo. -- Sept. 14-17. -- Autumn. …

Revised edition following that of 1931. 7¼" x 5¼", pp. [2], iv, 260, [2]; 50 illustrations from photographs; near fine in original pictorial stiff card wrappers. Detained guide to more than 60 holidays, festivals, birthdays, feasts, and anniversaries as celebrated in Japan.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. "Calendar of Annual Events in Tokyo with Guide to Places of Interest" by S. Uenoda. Published Taiheiyosha Press, Japan, 1931. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic reproductions. Decorated cloth on softcovers.The book measures 4.25" x 7.25", 210 pages with additional pages of advertisements. The book is in very good plus condition. Minor soiling and staining to the cloth covers, especially at the front edge. The front board is cocked. The contents are clean, bright, and unmarked. The binding is sound. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(H1-24).…