About this website

There are plenty of websites promoting ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints), but very few dealing with Japanese books. This website attempts to fill that gap.

My original intention was to make the site as interactive as possible, catering to people's tastes, responding to enquiries, tracking down material, etc. Unfortunately, though I began that way, and kept it up for a while, in the end other pressures have forced me to scale down my input here for the time being.

At present, therefore, I regret that I cannot respond to requests. I hope to be able to do so sometime in the future, but for now I'm afraid all I can offer is the information on the website.

Contact me

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About me

I am a teacher of English literature in a Japanese university; visit my website for students to find out about that side of my life. I spent years as a research student poring over rare books and manuscripts, but at that stage my interest was in the contents. I did not become interested in books as collectible objects until much later on. You can find links to my own collections below

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Other Links

IDENTIFYING JAPANESE FIRST EDITIONS

-For people who can't speak or read Japanese

JAPANESE ANTIQUES AND CURIOS

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BOOKS I AM COLLECTING

My two main areas of collecting are as follows:

1. VICTORIAN WOMEN

2. "HEADS THAT ROLLED: THE BOOKS OF THE MARTYRS"

- Material connected with those who suffered for their beliefs during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

If you have anything you think may be relevant to these two topic areas please contact me.

Special feature: A FIFTEENTH CENTURY BOOK OF HOURS 

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POSTAL ADDRESS

Ishigami 3-5-3

Niiza-shi

Saitama 352 0033

Japan

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