Things Japanese Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan

London / Toyko: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. , Ltd. / the Hakubunsha, Ginza. Very Good-. 1890. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and fraying. The spine joints have rubbing and fraying as well, and there are several spots of discoloration to both front and rear covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright. Both front and rear inner hinges have pulling or are cracked. This copy includes an inked notation by a previous owner on the front endpaper and also has a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the front endpaper and front pastedown page. "Basil Hall Chamberlain (18 October 1850 – 15 February 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. (Others included Ernest Satow and W. G. Aston. ) He also wrote some of the earliest translations of haiku into English. He is perhaps best remembered for his informal and popular one-volume encyclopedia Things Japanese, which first appeared in 1890 and which he revised several times thereafter. His interests were diverse, and his works include an anthology of poetry in French. " (from Wikipedia) .