This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI KAMAKURA AND ENOSHIMA The nearest provincial point of interest to the port of Yokohama is the ancient city of Kamakura, which owes its historical fame to Yoritomo, the founder of the Shogunate, who chose it for his capital in 1192. For generations prior to that time the high-spirited ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI KAMAKURA AND ENOSHIMA The nearest provincial point of interest to the port of Yokohama is the ancient city of Kamakura, which owes its historical fame to Yoritomo, the founder of the Shogunate, who chose it for his capital in 1192. For generations prior to that time the high-spirited aristocracy of Japan, tired of the effeminacy of the Mikado's court, had seethed with impatient desire for more manly dominion. Eventually this unrest broke out into open warfare between the two greatest families in the land--the Taira and Minamoto clans--and during the latter half of the eleventh and the whole of the twelfth century the heads of these clans alternately rose to almost Imperial power, as the fortunes of war favoured the one or the other. Yoritomo, a scion of the illustrious house of Minamoto, was born in 1147, and thirty-eight years later the vendetta of his clan with the Taira, which had filled a hundred and fifty years with bloodshed, culminated in the battle of Danno-ura, which was fought on the Inland Sea near Shimonoseki. This conflict, in which some accounts state Yoritomo completely exterminated his rivals and their whole army, putting even women and children to the sword, is the most famous in mediaeval history, and an epic of Japan. The name of Yoritomo, great as it is, is yet one of the most hated in Japanese history. But his crushing victory over his enemies, even though he pursued it to such extremes, is not responsible for this feeling. The odium in which he is held is due to his inhuman treatment of the popular hero Yoshitsune. For his terrible vengeance he had a personal cause; but for his inhumanity to Yoshitsune he had none. Yoshitsune was his half-brother by the famous court beauty Tokiwa Gozen, the...
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Illustrated by the Author. , the gilt has faded in places, spine has a slight skew, the spine and lower quarter of the front board are sunned, the tail of the block is lightly foxed, internally the book is very clean and the binding tight, plates are bright and the book is in... Hardback. [2] xii 1-306 pages, colour illustrated frontispiece, plus another 7 pictures in colour and 80 in monochrome from photographs by the author., 25 x 19cm.
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Good. Quarto. Original red cloth, gilt. Wear and discoloration to edges, some fraying. Shaken, several gutter cracks to text block, one on title page. Bookplates.
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Tiny old price and little stickers to front endsheet; slight use to cloth; clean, tight and sound. xii, 306 pp. With 8 pictures in colour and 80 in monochrome from photographs by the author. Large thick 8vo,
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by J. M. Dent & Sons, London, UK. 1922. Xii, 306 pgs. Illustrated with 8 pictures in colour and 80 in monochrome from photographs by the author. New & Revised Edition. Bound in blue cloth boards with titles present to the spine and gilt decoration and titles present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This book is written by a nomad who has worshipped at the shrine of Nature and Art in many lands; who has spent nearly three happy years in one of the most delightful of holiday lands and who served as a Correspondent with the First Japanese Army during the war with Russia In it will be found no dissertations on politics economics or social problems; and he who seeks information concerning Japans vast textile manufactures statistics of her progress or of the rapid growth of her military and naval mighty will search its pages in vain This volume is intended primarily as a guide-book for the traveller; and secondly as a means to those who are unable to roam so far away to explore a beautiful country through the medium of the lens and observations of one whose camera and note-book have been his inseparable companions in all his wanderings o'er the earth. EB; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
