Archive of RADICAL FINNISH SOCIALIST FEDERATION of FITCHBURG, MASS. 1914-1922

Includes:

80+ MANUSCRIPT PAGES (and two typed pages) describing STRIKES, CALLS TO ACTION, RED FLAG MARCHES, LABOR PROTESTS, POLICE BRUTALITY, etc. + 4 pages with over 60 SIGNATURES of FINNISH SOCIALIST FEDERATION MEMBERS including OSKARI TOKOI (see his Wikipedia page), and an interesting page from 1933 indicating this written archive may have come from a "time-capsule".

The 80+ manuscript pages (and 2 typed pages) are an important "I was there" look at many of the strikes, rallies, marches, speeches, battles with police, etc, that took place during the Finnish Socialist Federation's most radical era 1914-1922. The authors of these written "reports" are unstated. Many seem to be in the same hand. They are written in English.

The 60 signatures are on 4 pages with a "RAIVAAJA PUBLISHING COMPANY / FITCHBURG, MASS" letterhead, undated but likely c.1930. ("Raivaaja was a Finnish-language newspaper published from 1905 to 2009 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, by Raivaaja Publishing Company. For the first three decades of its existence the publication was closely associated with the Socialist Party of America." - Wikipedia)

Did these handwritten reports come from a Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Finnish Labor Society time capsule??? Maybe. There is a typed page, in Finnish, on "Finnish Labor Society SAIMA" letterhead dated 1933 that precedes the rest of the pages in the binder, which states (translated by Google):

******"That part of the Finnish people, who in the storms of time moved to this city of Fitchburg, during the last decades, would like to preserve for posterity some incidents from their phase-rich journey. As can be seen from the contents of the box, they were Finnish migrants, mostly young men and women who hoped that on this continent they would be able to partake of the warmer sunshine of a happy day than in the country of their birth. However, hard work was a condition of livelihood here as well, and that is why many of them became attached to the labor movement, whose struggles are described in detail in the various reports herein.

The box will be buried in the ground on Thursday evening, May 11, 1933, in a place known as Saima Park. Naturally no one knows when it will be found, but it is supposed to remain in the ground for several generations and after emerging will be solid material from the past for researchers of the Labor cause. In Fitchburg, Massachusetts, May 11, 1933. / Lauri Moilanen / Saima scribe of the Finnish Workers' Association."******

Each of the manuscript pages, the signature pages, and the "time capsule" page, are in plastic sleeves and collected in a three ring binder.

Condition: The signature pages and the "time capsule" page all have rust stains at the top, likely from metal clips or pins. The manuscript pages are all in remarkably good condition, bright, clean and clear. Like they've been archivally stored in a time capsule or something!

About the FINNISH SOCIALIST FEDERATION (from the University of Minnesota Libraries website:

******"The Saima Workers' Society of Fitchburg, Mass. was founded in 1894 as a Finnish workers' organization. In 1905, it joined the Socialist Party, thus making it the oldest Finnish Socialist chapter in the United States. In 1906, it joined the Finnish Socialist Federation, and by 1924-1925 was the largest such chapter in the country, with over five hundred members.*****

WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS AT DR. SUN'S MAUSOLEUM - PAINTED BY ONG SCHAN TCHOW.

HONG KONG: Yik Mui Art Association, 1939. From the copyright page: "First Edition, Printed January 1939...Engraved and Printed by The Asiatic Litho. Printing Press / 390, King's Road, Hong Kong."

Hardcovers, cord binding, 10.5x15 inches oblong. Pagination: [1] Title Page / Table of Contents, [4] Preface Pages, [2] Comment Pages, [20] Twenty Plates of Chrysanthemum Watercolors side-by-side with Calligraphic Poems. Each leaf is printed on one side only.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some rubs, a few scrapes and wear to the top of the spine, otherwise they are solid and doing their job well; internally the pages are complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

SCARCE and IMPORTANT WORK by the CHINESE / HONG KONG ARTIST ONG SCHAN TCHOW. This book almost never comes up for sale, the last copy I am aware of was incomplete - missing plates.

About ONG SCHAN TCHOW (from Wikipedia):

******Ong Schan Tchow, b.1900 d.1945, was born in the Longyan prefecture, Southern Fujian Province, China. He was known for Chinese ink wash painting, color paintings of flowers (Chrysanthemums in particular), and Calligraphy. He was one of the first Chinese artists to study in Paris and one of the early artists to integrate traditional Chinese and Western art techniques,

In Paris, Ong studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In addition, he obtained a Master of Arts in Law, French and Political Science from the University of Paris.

In Nanjing Ong produced one of his MONUMENTAL WORKS - a compilation of paintings of chrysanthemums with accompanying poems and commentary from well known persons. This compilation was succinctly called the "BOOK OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS" [and un-succinctly titled WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS AT DR. SUN'S MAUSOLEUM]. The book contained paintings of the vast variety of Chrysanthemums planted at the newly completed mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the "Father of Modern China", at Nanjing, the former Capital of China.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Professor Ong exhibited his works extensively and gave all the proceeds to the war relief effort. The war destroyed many of his paintings but he managed to salvage some important works. The advancing Japanese army forced him to move his exhibitions to Hong Kong and later to Singapore and Malaysia.

Ong died in 1945, at the age of 45, while exhibiting his works in Ipoh, Malaysia. In the Annals of Longyan, Ong is considered one of her most famous citizens.******

THE JAPANESE BOX - Limited to only 1500 Sets, this being number 695. Edited by Christoph Schifferli. Designed by Gerhard Steidl and Karl Lagerfeld.

Published by EDITION 7L, PARIS, 2001; Distributed by STEIDL, GÖTTINGEN. ISBN 10: 3882433019 ISBN 13: 978-3882433012

The production of THE JAPANESE BOX was conceived of by printer Gerhard Steidl and fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld to celebrate the avant-garde of Japanese photography of the late 1960s and early 1970s. A vanguard of that movement was the publication of PROVOKE magazine by Takuma Nakahira in 1968.

Includes a select group of facsimile reprints of six rare photographic publications of the Japanese Provoke era, plus a descriptive introductory pamphlet by Schifferli. The publications are handsomely presented in a specially designed wooden box with metal clasps. The books inside the box are nested in black crepe paper, and there are two thick rubber bands, one with the printed words "The Japanese Box". The inside of the box's lid is a label with the limitation and printing information. The box set with its original cardboard shipping box.

From the Foreword: THE JAPANESE BOX presents six publications by a remarkable group of Japanese photographers and writers whose work was a response to the climate of political and moral unrest in Tokyo around 1968. The publications include three issues of PROVOKE (1968-1969) plus For A Language To Come by Takuma Nakahira (1970), Sentimental Journey by Nobuyoshi Araki (1971), and A Farewell To Photography by Daido Moriyama 1972).

VERY GOOD condition, just lightly used. The covers of some of the issues have a few scrapes and rubs, internally all are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The specially designed wooden box is excellent, the inner crepe paper remains intact, the thick rubber bands have split and are disintegrating with age, as rubber bands are wont to do.

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This Box Set is heavy and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

FORTY-ONE ISSUES - THE COMPLETE RUN of THE XXTH CENTURY. Published in SHANGHAI, CHINA, 1941-1945. Founded and Edited by KLAUS MEHNERT.

The XXth Century was an English language, Nazi financed, deceptively scholarly publication about China, Japan, Asia, Germany, and World War II. It had a strong pro-Axis slant, but presented itself as an independent publication filled with articles about Asia and the World. German activities in the War and throughout the world were portrayed in a positive light.

COMPLETE RUN of FORTY-ONE ISSUES, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct. 1941) through Vol.. 8, No. 6 (June 1945).

SHANGHAI: The XXth Century Publishing Company / Klaus Mehnert, 1941-1945.

Softcover magazines, 7.25x10.25 inches (18.5x25.5 cm), approximately 80 pages per issue, illustrated with photographic plates and in-text drawings and maps.

COMES WITH A GUIDE / INDEX compiled by Eric Bott at the University of Hawaii under the supervision of Stephan and Patricia Polansky, and published by the Berlin State Library in 2004. The Guide provides the full table-of-contents for each of the 41 issues, and a comprehensive Index for all the issues. It has 73 photocopied pages printed on one side only, bound in clear vinyl covers. It is signed in German at the top of the first page "Schöne Grüße / (??)".

CONDITION: The issues are in GOOD to GOOD MINUS condition, the covers have soiling, scrapes and wear to the spines, and some tender spine folds; some of the early and latter signatures are pulling from the staples but holding; some of the pages have edgewear and edge flakiness; otherwise the issues are complete with pages that are lightly toned at the margins and still bright, clean and unmarked. The exception is the last issue, V.8 N.6, which has disbound covers, light shorelining to the covers and pages, and general signs of wear, otherwise it too is complete. The Guide / Index is in Fine condition.

The Berlin State Library called The XXth Century "particularly remarkable because it is completely free of Nazi propaganda." Far from the truth.

A RARE COMPLETE RUN of Klaus Mehnert's Nazi backed, Shanghai published journal. The University of Hawaii holds one of the few complete runs of this influential publication.

About KLAUS MEHNERT and the XXTH CENTURY magazine (from Wikipedia and the University of Hawaii website):

******Born In Moscow in 1906, Mehnert's family left Russia in 1914. He received his PhD from the University of Berlin in 1928. Mehnert traveled frequently, to America, the Soviet Union, Japan, and China. He was fluent in Russian, German, and English. He married Enid Keyes (d.1955) in California in 1933, and in 1934 returned to the Soviet Union as an author and German newspaper reporter. In 1936 Goebbels ordered German newspapers to stop printing Mehnert's news reports, so he moved to America where he taught at UC Berkeley then at the University of Hawaii.

In June 1941, six months prior to America's entry to World War II, he left for Shanghai, China, where he published an English language journal The XXth Century with financing from the Nazi German Foreign Ministry and Joseph Goebbels' Third Reich Propaganda Ministry.

The XXth Century was an influential promoter of anti-Allied reports and commentary in Asia, The XXth Century was later described by American intelligence as "one of the slickest bits of propaganda work that has been done anywhere". In its four years, Menhert "steered his publication cunningly along a sophisticated path that eschewed overt pro-Axis advocacy", according to the British historian Bernard Wasserstein, with "a wide range of contributors, few of whom were publicly identified with Nazism". The journal was discontinued at the end of the war in 1945, and Mehnert was briefly imprisoned before returning to Germany.******

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NAMU DAI BOSA: A TRANSMISSION OF ZEN BUDDHISM TO AMERICA, by Nyogen Senzaki, Soen Nakagawa, and Eido Shimano.

Zen Studies Society's Bhaiajaguru Series published by Theatre Arts Books, New York, 1976.

SPECIAL LIMITED, NUMBERED and SIGNED EDITION. This is copy number 512 of only 1000 copies and has a sweeping CALLIGRAPHY SIGNATURE-INSCRIPTION by EIDO SHIMANO on the rear endpapers.

From the Colophon page: "This book was designed by Stephen Harvard and printed at The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont...An edition of 1000 signed and numbered copies has been printed..."

Hardcovers, cloth covered spine and paper covered boards, spine titled in gilt, 6x9 inches. Pagination: xxix, 262 pages. Comes in a paper covered, heavy cardboard slipcase.

Condition: VERY GOOD book, the rear cover has a few small black smudges, clearly a result of the bold black calligraphic inscription on the rear endpapers, perhaps the calligrapher's brush or inky fingers lightly touched the rear cover at a couple spots, anyway adds a few nice "touches" to the inscription; otherwise the book is sharp cornered, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. In a FAIR slipcase that is solid and doing its job well, but has staining to the spine, a couple scrapes, ghost of a removed sticker, and some soiling.

About NYOGEN SENZAKI (from Wikipedia):

******Nyogen Senzaki, b.1876 d.1958, was a Rinzai Zen monk who was one of the 20th century's leading proponents of Zen Buddhism in the United States.******

About SOEN NAKAGAWA (from Wikipedia):

******Soen Nakagawa, b.1907 d.1984, was a Taiwanese born Japanese roshi and Zen Buddhist master in the Rinzai tradition. An enigmatic figure, Nakagawa had a major impact on Zen as it was practiced in the 20th century, both in Japan and abroad.******

About EIDO SHIMANO (from Wikipedia):

******Eido Tai Shimano (Shimano Eido), b.1932 d.2018, was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest. He was the founding abbot of the New York Zendo Shobo-Ji in Manhattan and Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji monastery in the Catskill mountains of New York; he was forced to resign from that position of 40 years after revelations of a series of sexual relationships with and alleged sexual harassment of female students.****** (Not very Zen!)

OLD TRADEMARKS / LAO SHANG BIO. Compiled by Zuo Xuchu. A book filled with reproductions of early Chinese trademark labels, each a work of art.

Published by Shanghai Pictorial Publishing House, Shanghai, China, 1999. First edition, first printing. ISBN: 7805304580. This copy was originally purchased at the Shanghai Museum and has the museum's small bar code label on the back cover.

Softcovers, French flaps, 8x11 inches, 176 pages. Illustrated with 100s of reproductions of colorful Chinese Trademark Labels. TEXT in CHINESE.

VERY GOOD condition, the spine's plasticized overcoat has bubbling, otherwise the book is tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy.

From the Publisher (roughly translated by Google): "Old Trademarks was published by Shanghai Pictorial Publishing House in January 1999. The author-compiler is Zuo Xuchu. The book displays the colorful illustrations of old Chinese trademarks. It also talks about the history of China's trademarks from ancient times to the present."

SHOWA SHASHIN ZENSHIGOTO (PHOTOGRAPHY of the SHOWA ERA).

15 MONOGRAPHS presenting the work of 15 noted JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS of the Showa Era 1926-1989. A complete set of this important Japanese photography monograph series.

Published by Asahi Shimbun Sha, Tokyo, Japan, 1982-1984. First editions. TEXT in JAPANESE.

15 volumes. Softcovers / Wrappers with pictorial dustjackets, 9.5 x 11.75 inches (24 x 29.5 cm), approximately 125-150 pages per volume. Original obi bands are on 14 of the 15 monographs. FULLY ILLUSTRATED with b&w and color photographs.

The 15 monographs are:

Monograph (Series) 1: Shotaro AKIYAMA. Monograph (Series) 2: Yoshikazu SHIRAKAWA. Monograph (Series) 3: Tadahiko HAYASHI. Monograph (Series) 4: Shoji OTAKE. Monograph (Series) 5: Ken DOMON. Monograph (Series) 6: Yoichi MIDORIKAWA. Monograph (Series) 7: Jun MIKI. Monograph (Series) 8: Masaya NAKAMURA. Monograph (Series) 9: Ikko NARAHARA. Monograph (Series) 10: Shoji UEDA. Monograph (Series) 11: Shiro SHIRAHARA. Monograph (Series) 12: Takamasa INAMURA. Monograph (Series) 13: Shinzo MAEDA. Monograph (Series) 14: Taikichi IRIE. Monograph (Series) 15: Shomei TOMATSU.

CONDITION: The issues and their dustjackets are all in VERY GOOD condition, the inner hinge of a few issues has split where the issues were over-opened but the signatures are sewn bound and always holding well; otherwise the issues are bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The obi bands are all in GOOD condition, with some general wear and a few creases and closed tears here and there; one obi band is lacking as noted above. Overall a lovely, complete set.

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This collection of 15 monographs is very heavy and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

MOUNT OMEI. A NEW EDITION of the OMEI ILLUSTRATED GUIDE BOOK by HUANG SHOU-FU and T'AN CHUNG-YO A. D. 1887-1891, with an English Translation by Dryden Linsley Phelps.

ILLUSTRATED with WOODBLOCK PLATES redrawn from the ORIGINAL PLATES by YU TZU-TAN.

Published by West China Union University - Harvard Yenching Series, CHENGTU, SZECHWAN, 1936. First edition, first printing of this English translation.

Wrappers, lacking front wrapper, sewn binding, 454 pages (227 double leaves), 7.25x12.75 inches (18x32 cm). Bound in sewn-on contemporary silk covered boards with a silk brocade decoration on the front cover, and partial of the front wrapper (title portion) glued to the inside front cover.

Condition: The front and rear silk covered boards that are sewn on over the original work are coming loose, hanging on with just a few threads, and the silk brocade on the front board has some loose threads; the front original wrapper is only partially present as noted above, the rear wrapper is present and has a few inch closed tear and some edge chips, the blank front free endpaper has creases, chips, and a previous owner's lovely bookplate (Hazel Rhodes), otherwise the inner pages are very nice, just a bit of corner and edge wear here and there, overall complete, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. The illustrations are gorgeous.

RARE and BEAUTIFULLY BOUND COPY of the 1936 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.

TSUNEKO NAKAZATO EXHIBITION CATALOG Award Winning Japanese Female Writer - PHOTOS, MANUSCRIPTS, MEMORABILIA Kanagawa Museum 1989

TSUNEKO NAKAZATO EXHIBITION CATALOG including Manuscripts, Books, Photos, and Personal Memorabilia. The exhibition, THE HEART OF THE STORY, was held at the Kanagawa Modern Literature Museum in 1989. The catalog was published by the Kanagawa Literature Promotion Foundation in conjunction with the exhibition. First Edition. TEXT IN JAPANESE.

Softcovers, 7x10 inches, 32 pages. FULLY ILLUSTRATED.

NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

About TSUNEKO NAKAZATO (from Wikipedia):

******Tsuneko Nakazato, b.1909 d.1987, was the pen name of a novelist in Showa period Japan. Her real name was Nakazato Tsune.

Nakazato was born in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa prefecture and graduated from the Kanagawa Girls' Higher School. When she was 17 years old she met Tatsuo Nagai and started writing, publishing multiple novellas before her marriage at age 19.

In 1938, Nakazato became the first woman to win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, with her short story Noriai bashi. After World War II, she came to be known for a number of works addressing the issue of international marriage, including Mariannu monogatari (Maryann's Story, 1946) and Kusari (Chain, 1959), which were drawn from her own daughter's marriage to an American. Her novel Utamakura (Song Pillow, 1973) was awarded the Yomiuri Prize. In 1974, she received the Japan Art Academy Prize, and became a member of that institution in 1983.

Nakazato was a resident of Zushi, Kanagawa from 1932 until her death due to colon cancer in 1987. Her grave is at the temple of Engaku-ji in Kamakura.******

GOLD PEAK 1997 SPECIAL STAMP PACK Commemorating the JULY 1, 1997 HANDOVER of HONG KONG to CHINA.

A lovely hardcover folder with art on the front panel opens to display a LAST DAY STAMP COVER POSTMARKED HONG KONG / JUNE 30, 1997 and a FIRST DAY STAMP COVER POSTMARKED JULY 1, 1997. June 30, 1997 was the last day that Hong Kong was governed by the United Kingdom, and the last day that stamps featuring Queen Elizabeth were usable. July 1, 1997 was the first day that Hong Kong was governed by China, and the first day that the new Hong Kong stamps could be used.

The folder measures 8.5x14.5 inches, the front panel has a lovely art design. The folder opens to present the first day and last day covers that are loosely mounted with clear corner holders. Laid-in the folder is a letter from Victor Lo, the Chairman & Chief Executive of Gold Peak Industries, a Hong Kong based international battery and technology company. The letter describes the "1997 Collectors' Stamp Presentation" which "are issued in a very limited edition".

All is in NEAR FINE condition, lovely.

ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE PUBLISHED WORKS ON EAST-ASIAN CERAMICS.

SEKAI TOJI ZENSHU - CATALOGUE OF WORLD'S CERAMICS. Edited by Fujio Koyama, Sakutaro Tanaka, Ryoichi Fujioka, Tadanari Mitsuoka, and Seiichi Mizuno.

FOURTEEN VOLUMES, No. 1 - No. 14.

Published by The Zauho Press & The Kawade Shobo, [Tokyo, Japan], 1955 - 1958.

Fourteen Hardcover Books, cloth covered boards, front covers blind embossed with a floral design, 8.5x12 inches, approximately 280 pages per book. No slipcases.

Each volume is ILLUSTRATED with approximately 140 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES in b&w and color, plus approximately 140 pages of text RICHLY ILLUSTRATED with numerous in-text b&w photographs and drawings.

Text in Japanese. However, an English language pamphlet is laid-into each Volume except Volumes 4 and 13, that provides a Table-of-Contents, Introduction, Descriptions of the Colour Plates, and Descriptions of the Monochrome Plates.

ASSOCIATION COPY: This set was previously owned by WINFIELD SCOTT WELLINGTON, b.1897 d.1979, with his bold and florid signature on the front pastedown of volumes 2-9. Wellington was a noted San Francisco Bay Area Architect, Museum Director, Artist, and Professor of Decorative Arts at UC Berkeley. He was also a noted collector of ceramics.

Each volume covers a different period in East-Asian Ceramic History:

(1) Japan: Pre-Historic, Proto-Historic and Early Historic Periods. (2) Japan: Ceramics in the Nara to Muromachi Periods. (3) Japan: Ceramics in the Momoyama period. (4) Japan Ceramics in the Edo Period (part I).

(5) Japan: Ceramics in the Edo period (part II). (6) The Edo period (part III). (7) Tea Ceremony Implements. (8) From Ancient China to Six Dynasties. (9) China: Sui and Tang Dynasties. (10) China: Sung and Liao Dynasties. (11) China: Yuan and Ming Dynasties. (12) China: Ch'ing Dynasty and Annamese and Thai Ceramics. (13) Korea: Pre-Koryo and Koryo Periods. (14) Korean Ceramics in the Li Dynasty.

Volumes 15 and 16 which ARE NOT part of this set, were the only volumes not related to East-Asian ceramics. Volume 15 is on the ceramics of "Europe & Others" and. Volume 16 is on Contemporary Ceramics (mainly non-Asian). As a collector of indigenous East-Asian ceramics perhaps this is why Professor Winfield Scott Wellington was not interested in those last two works.

CONDITION: Volume 1 is in GOOD condition: The back cover of has the ghost of a large sticker that was removed, the front and rear covers have some small stains, and there is a bump to the top of the spine; internally, there is some waviness to the bottom margin of the first few pages, and there are small rust stains and light offsetting to the rear endpapers from the laid-in English language booklet, otherwise the book is tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

VOLUMES 2-14 are in VERY GOOD condition, just a bit of soiling to some of the covers; tissue guards have been removed from most of the frontispieces, else tight, bright, clear, clean and unmarked.

ALL THE PLATES (1800+ in the 14 volume set) are brilliant.

A couple of the laid-in booklets are wavy, and a couple have pulled from their staples but are complete.

Considered to be one of the most extensive published works on East-Asian ceramics.

About WINFIELD SCOTT WELLINGTON (from the University of California "In Memoriam" website):

******Winfield Scott Wellington, b.1897 d.1979, was an architect, collector, and esteemed Professor of Design at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Berkeley from 1937 until his retirement in 1965. He had a "hands on" approach in his teaching, his popular classes in materials required students to examine and handle the beautiful objects from his ever expanding personal collection. He was chairman of the U.C. Berkeley Art Gallery from 1946 to 1962.******

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MODERN UTOPIAN: COMMUNES, JAPAN. By Richard Fairfield, with Photographs by Consuelo Sandoval, Sankichi Nomoto & Mamo Kato.

"Material on Japanese communes was compiled from personal experience and interviews in the communes themselves with added material and insights from other writers and visitors, including Meyer Steinbach, M.D.; Noboyoshi Tezuka, Michael Howden, and staff of the Japan Kibbutz Association."

Japanese Communes in this book include: Itto-en Community; New Village; Ohoyamato Ajisai; Shinkyo Commune; Yamagishi-kai Association; Hokkaido Yamagishi-ism; The Tribe; and more. (I wonder if Haruki Murakami based the commune in his book 1Q84 on one of these?)

Published by Alternative Foundation, San Francisco, 1972. First Edition. ISBN: 0912976020

GOOD condition, the covers have some light toning and corner creases; internally just lightly used, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy.

RARE and interesting look at the Japanese Utopian Communes of the early 1970s.

MY EZO STORY, by TANAKA CHUZABURO. An exhibition displaying Chuzaburo's collection of Ezo artifacts.

Published by Kitano Machisha, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan, Showa 54th Year (1979). TEXT IN JAPANESE.

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 8.5x11 inches, 157 pages. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT with b&w photographs.

Condition: NEAR FINE book, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a FAIR dustjacket that has wear, creases and closed tears to its edges, corners and spine ends; rubbing, scratches and some scrapes to its front and rear panels and spine; and some clear tape reinforcement to its backside; nonetheless the dj is complete and doing it job.

About the Ezo collection of Takaka Chuzaburo (roughly translated from the Japanese by Google):

******Ethnologist and Aomori native Tanaka Chuzaburo spent his life researching and documenting the culture of his home. This book features implements and clothing from the collection Tanaka spent his life amassing and introduced the culture and lifestyles developed by the people of Aomori to survive the region's long, harsh winters. In an age of rampant cheap and disposable consumption, this book provides an opportunity to trace the handicrafts and way of life of people who truly cared for their belongings through tireless maintenance and repurposing.******

About EZO (from Wikipedia):

******Ezo is the Japanese term historically used to refer to the lands to the north of the Japanese island of Honshu. It included the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, which changed its name from Ezo to Hokkaido in 1869, and sometimes included Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.******