{"title":"Military Historical Documents","description":"Operational records, regimental histories and official campaign volumes from the Japanese military archive — primary source materials of enduring importance for historians of modern East Asian conflict and strategy.","products":[{"product_id":"true-record-of-the-sino-japanese-war-nisshin-sensо̄-jikki-complete-set-of-50-volumes-1894","title":"True Record of the Sino-Japanese War (Nisshin Senso Jikki): Complete Set of 50 Volumes, 1894","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTrue Record of the Sino-Japanese War (Nisshin Sens\u0026amp;omacr; Jikki) — Complete Set of Fifty Volumes, 1894\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn imposing complete set of all fifty volumes of the True Record of the Sino-Japanese War, published from 1894 as the conflict itself unfolded. Issued serially while the war was being fought, the work assembles a near-contemporaneous chronicle of the first Sino-Japanese War — its campaigns and engagements, dispatches, illustrations, and reportage — gathered into a single monumental run of fifty parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew primary sources convey the texture of the 1894–95 war as immediately as this serialised record, compiled and printed in step with events rather than in retrospect. A complete fifty-volume set is a genuine rarity: such serials were read hard and rarely preserved entire, and surviving runs of this scope seldom come to market. For historians of modern East Asia, of Meiji-era print culture, and of the war that reshaped the regional order, it is a documentary source of the first magnitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA substantial and authentic artefact of its moment, well suited to a serious collection of military-historical documents and East Asian historical materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOffered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455393689881,"sku":"N0000003035","price":110800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/11091306_69101356466b0.jpg?v=1780292652"},{"product_id":"russo-japanese-war-photographic-albums-and-related-volumes-a-collection-of-29-albums-1904-05","title":"Russo-Japanese War Photographic Albums and Related Volumes: A Collection of 29 Albums, 1904-05","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRusso-Japanese War Photographic Albums and Related Volumes — A Collection of Twenty-Nine Albums, 1904–05\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA substantial gathering of photographic albums documenting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. The collection comprises the principal Russo-Japanese War photographic album in twenty-four parts (volumes one through twenty-four, twenty-nine albums in all), together with an album of the Port Arthur fighting photographed by a Russian officer, an album of the war drawn by leading Western artists from life, and a three-part naval photographic album of the war recorded by the photographic section of Imperial General Headquarters, dated to 1904–05.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotographic records of this scope, assembling the work of multiple photographic sections and even an opposing officer's lens, offer an unusually layered primary view of the conflict — the land campaigns about Port Arthur, the naval war, and the contemporary Western pictorial response, side by side. 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Printed by lithography and issued in its own paper wrapper, the sheet belongs to the popular patriotic print culture that flourished as the war was being fought — verse, image, and proclamation combined for a contemporary public eager for news and triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEphemeral prints of this kind were produced for the moment and rarely kept; survivals retaining their original wrapper are accordingly uncommon. As a direct trace of how the 1894 war was celebrated and circulated at home, the sheet carries genuine documentary weight for the study of Meiji print culture, wartime propaganda, and the popular memory of the conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn evocative and authentic artefact of its moment, well suited to a serious collection of military-historical documents and East Asian historical materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOffered by KT Vintage, drawing on decades of trusted international sales to discerning collectors and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455470924057,"sku":"N0000016719","price":66000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20221220181906113310_4217ddc63020fd2a0061646c4671f611.jpg?v=1780292710"},{"product_id":"history-of-the-sino-japanese-war-by-maxime-sauvage-trans-shigema-narisawa-1901","title":"History of the Sino-Japanese War by Maxime Sauvage, trans. 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The plates depict celebrated episodes of the conflict's opening campaigns, including the occupation of Fenghuangcheng, naval engagements off Port Arthur, the great battle at Nanshan, fighting along the Yalu River, the capture of Jinzhou, and the dramatic sea action off Incheon harbour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Russo-Japanese War commanded extraordinary public attention, and richly illustrated albums such as this were produced to bring the events of the front to readers at home. 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