Calendar of Annual Events in Japan / With Guide to Places of Interest [subtitle from cover]
Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, Ltd., 1951. 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.
Cat.No: 299483
Price: $15.00