{"title":"New Arrivals","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"sino-japanese-war-photographic-album-naval-volume-kazumasa-ogawa-1895-96-meiji-collotype-folio","title":"Sino-Japanese War Photographic Album (Naval Volume) - Kazumasa Ogawa, 1895-96 Meiji Collotype Folio","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:1.7;color:#2b2b2b;max-width:760px;\"\u003e\n  \u003ch2 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;letter-spacing:.5px;border-bottom:1px solid #c8b89a;padding-bottom:8px;\"\u003eSino-Japanese War Photographic Album — Naval Volume\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-style:italic;color:#5a5a5a;\"\u003eA monumental large-format collotype album recording the naval theatre of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95), produced by Kazumasa Ogawa, the pioneering Meiji photographer and master of the collotype process in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;color:#6b4f2a;\"\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe First Sino-Japanese War marked the emergence of Imperial Japan as a modern naval power and reshaped the balance of East Asia at the close of the nineteenth century. This album was issued at the very moment those events entered public memory, presenting the fleets, officers, vessels and coastal operations of the conflict to a contemporary audience. Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929) was among the most accomplished photographers of the Meiji era, renowned for introducing and perfecting the collotype in Japan; works bearing his imprint are prized today for their tonal depth and archival permanence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;color:#6b4f2a;\"\u003eThe Volume\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eIssued in the 28th-29th years of Meiji (1895-96), this is the Naval Volume of the war record. It comprises plate sequences of 129, 135, 67 and 24 pages, presented in an imposing folio format measuring approximately 31 x 44.5 cm — a scale that allows the collotype plates to be appreciated in full detail. As a primary visual document of late-nineteenth-century East Asian naval history, it belongs to a class of material now seldom encountered intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;color:#6b4f2a;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eOffered honestly as a period object more than a century old. Minor wear and light toning are present throughout, with some foxing consistent with age. There is some tearing in part. Overall a substantial and historically important folio presenting very well for its era; please review all images, which form part of the description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size:.85em;color:#8a7a5c;border-top:1px solid #e3d8c2;padding-top:10px;\"\u003eFrom a curated holding of East Asian historical photographic material, offered by an antiquarian dealer specialising in rare Japanese and East Asian books and documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455183417625,"sku":"N0000004257","price":1744300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/398354707_large_99c91858-0f1d-4936-bcc2-93733d2d6a0b.jpg?v=1780292584"},{"product_id":"the-north-china-incident-photographic-album-boxer-rebellion-s-yamamoto-peking-1901","title":"The North China Incident Photographic Album (Boxer Rebellion) - S. Yamamoto, Peking 1901","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:1.7;color:#2b2b2b;max-width:760px;\"\u003e\n  \u003ch2 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;letter-spacing:.5px;border-bottom:1px solid #c8b89a;padding-bottom:8px;\"\u003eThe North China Incident — A Photographic Album of the Boxer Rebellion\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-style:italic;color:#5a5a5a;\"\u003eA rare photographic album of the Boxer Uprising and its immediate aftermath in Peking and North China, compiled by Sanshichiro Yamamoto and published in 1901 — a primary eyewitness record from the close of the Qing dynasty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;color:#6b4f2a;\"\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe Boxer Rebellion of 1900-01 (the Boxer Uprising \/ Yihetuan Movement) was one of the defining upheavals of late imperial China, culminating in the siege of the foreign legations in Peking and an international intervention that left a lasting imprint on the dying years of the Qing dynasty. Photographs taken in the immediate wake of these events are scarce and historically significant, capturing the streets, architecture and atmosphere of the capital at a pivotal moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;color:#6b4f2a;\"\u003eThe Photographer\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eSanshichiro Yamamoto (also recorded as Seiyo Yamamoto) maintained a photographic studio on Wangfujing in Peking, from which he documented the late-Qing capital. Published in 1901 by the Tokyo Printing Co. Ltd. for S. Yamamoto, this album stands as a contemporary visual testimony to North China in the year following the Boxer crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;color:#6b4f2a;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA period photographic album of considerable age. Toning and handling consistent with its date are to be expected, as is normal for albums of this period. Please review all photographs carefully, which form an integral part of this description, and assess condition for yourself before purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size:.85em;color:#8a7a5c;border-top:1px solid #e3d8c2;padding-top:10px;\"\u003eFrom a curated holding of East Asian historical photographic material, offered by an antiquarian dealer specialising in rare Japanese and East Asian books and documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455183712537,"sku":"N0000003629","price":476300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/02130003_698debde47982.png?v=1780292589"},{"product_id":"map-of-harbin-special-city-xinyang-ward-land-sale-lease-plan-1936-manchukuo-1-5000","title":"Map of Harbin Special City, Xinyang Ward - Land Sale \u0026 Lease Plan, 1936 Manchukuo (1:5000)","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:1.7;color:#2b2b2b;max-width:760px;\"\u003e\n  \u003ch2 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;letter-spacing:.5px;border-bottom:1px solid #c8b89a;padding-bottom:8px;\"\u003eHarbin Special City — Xinyang Ward Land Sale \u0026amp; Lease Map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-style:italic;color:#5a5a5a;\"\u003eA large single-sheet city-planning map of the Xinyang ward of Harbin Special City, issued in 1936 under Manchukuo — a primary cartographic document of urban administration in 1930s Manchuria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;color:#6b4f2a;\"\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eUnder Manchukuo, Harbin grew into one of the principal cities of northern Manchuria, a cosmopolitan railway hub where municipal authorities undertook ambitious programmes of surveying, zoning and land development. Maps of this kind were working instruments of that administration, prepared to govern the sale and leasing of municipal land — and they survive today as vivid records of how the modern city was planned and parcelled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;color:#6b4f2a;\"\u003eThe Map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eTitled as the land sale and lease plan for the Xinyang ward of Harbin Special City, this map was prepared in 1936 (Kangde 3 \/ Showa 11) by the Land Section, Urban Construction Bureau, Harbin Special City Government. It is a single-sided sheet at a scale of 1:5000, measuring approximately 78 x 108 cm — a generous format that renders individual plots and street layouts in fine detail. As an original period planning document of Manchukuo-era Harbin, it is a scarce survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"font-variant:small-caps;color:#6b4f2a;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eFine overall and presenting handsomely. There is slight staining to the verso (reverse side). Fold-lines consistent with a map of this size and age are to be expected. A clean and attractive example; please review all images, which form part of the description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size:.85em;color:#8a7a5c;border-top:1px solid #e3d8c2;padding-top:10px;\"\u003eFrom a curated holding of East Asian historical maps and documents, offered by an antiquarian dealer specialising in rare Japanese and East Asian materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455184007449,"sku":"N0000004256","price":257100.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20230428161357890961_bafda974fe4d19a6a409353cc97fec72.jpg?v=1780292592"},{"product_id":"manchukuo-national-railway-construction-survey-of-the-meitong-line-confidential-1937","title":"Manchukuo National Railway: Construction Survey of the Meitong Line (CONFIDENTIAL), 1937","description":"\u003ch2\u003eManchukuo National Railway — Construction Survey of the Meitong Line (Confidential), 1937\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exceptionally rare internal survey documenting the construction of the Meitong Line under the Manchukuo National Railway, prepared in 1937 at the height of the railway's northern expansion. Issued as a restricted document, this volume was never intended for public circulation: its pages set out the engineering, route planning, and logistical particulars regarded at the time as matters of state confidentiality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work survives complete with its original confidential markings and the impressed seals and stickers of the South Manchuria Railway, the institution that administered the region's vast rail network. Such administrative provenance markings are precisely what scholars and serious collectors seek, as they anchor the document firmly within the operational machinery of the period rather than later commemorative reissue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor historians of Northeast Asia, Japanese colonial infrastructure, and railway engineering, this is a primary source of the first order — a confidential planning record that speaks directly to how the railway frontier of 1930s Manchuria was surveyed, financed, and built. Items of this sensitivity and survival rarely reach the market.\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":52455360266521,"sku":"N0000016641","price":312000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20250527194720740978_283a4523d728776bd0b34357ec6f21f3.jpg?v=1780292596"},{"product_id":"construction-of-the-rehe-jehol-line-photographic-album-south-manchuria-railway-1936","title":"Construction of the Rehe (Jehol) Line: Photographic Album, South Manchuria Railway, 1936","description":"\u003ch2\u003eConstruction of the Rehe (Jehol) Line — Photographic Album, South Manchuria Railway, 1936\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA handsome photographic album documenting the construction of the Rehe (Jehol) Line, compiled in 1936 by the Railway Construction Bureau of the South Manchuria Railway. Through a carefully sequenced series of plates, the album records the engineering works, surveyed terrain, and labour of one of the period's most demanding rail projects across the rugged borderlands of northern China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotographic construction albums of this kind were produced in very small numbers for institutional and commemorative purposes, making surviving copies scarce. The images carry documentary weight far beyond their visual appeal: they preserve a frame-by-frame record of how a frontier railway was carved through difficult country, and they remain an invaluable source for the study of colonial-era infrastructure, civil engineering history, and the photographic culture of the South Manchuria Railway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compelling primary document for collectors of prewar East Asian photography and railway history alike.\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":52455360495897,"sku":"N0000011670","price":264400.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/235956156_large_89ac1170-fa65-42de-b644-bc70fa63a033.jpg?v=1780292599"},{"product_id":"construction-of-the-lahabin-lapin-line-commemorative-photographic-album-south-manchuria-railway-harbin-construction-office-1933","title":"Construction of the Lahabin (Lapin) Line: Commemorative Photographic Album, South Manchuria Railway, Harbin Construction Office, 1933","description":"\u003ch2\u003eConstruction of the Lahabin (Lapin) Line — Commemorative Photographic Album, South Manchuria Railway, Harbin Construction Office, 1933\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA scarce commemorative photographic album marking the completion of the Lahabin (Lapin) Line, compiled in 1933 by the Harbin Construction Office of the South Manchuria Railway's Railway Construction Bureau. The plates chronicle the building of the line through the country surrounding Harbin — surveys, earthworks, bridges, and the men who carried the project to completion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced to commemorate a specific engineering achievement, albums such as this were issued in limited quantity and seldom survive intact. As a primary visual record they offer a rare window onto the rail network radiating from Harbin, then a pivotal junction of Northeast Asian commerce and movement. The volume will reward students of South Manchuria Railway history, prewar photography, and the urban and economic development of early 1930s Harbin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine documentary artefact of the period, well suited to a serious collection of 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":52455361052953,"sku":"N0000002634","price":264300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/398354839_large_793e1589-184f-4f0c-82b3-4ca64625b40b.jpg?v=1780292602"},{"product_id":"border-defense-commemorative-photographic-album-the-great-wall-the-asia-express-and-hsinking-1937-142-plates","title":"Border Defense Commemorative Photographic Album: The Great Wall, the Asia Express, and Hsinking, 1937 (142 Plates)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBorder Defense Commemorative Photographic Album — The Great Wall, the Asia Express, and Hsinking, 1937\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rich commemorative photographic album of 1937 gathering 142 plates that range across some of the most evocative subjects of 1930s Northeast Asia: the ramparts of the Great Wall of China, the celebrated Asia Express of the South Manchuria Railway, and the planned capital city of Hsinking, among other scenes. Compiled by Oka Tatsuzo, the album was assembled as a personal and institutional record of the border defense period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its substantial sequence of original photographs, the volume functions as a wide-ranging visual chronicle of the region — military, infrastructural, and urban — at a single charged moment in its history. The presence of the streamlined Asia Express, the era's most famous express train, alongside views of the Great Wall and the new capital, makes the album an unusually vivid survey of place and period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA substantial primary source for collectors of prewar East Asian photography, railway history, and the visual record of the Manchurian frontier.\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":52455361315097,"sku":"N0000002466","price":238600.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/149170778_large_a1fcba86-0474-47c9-a48e-62306ba1d1f2.jpg?v=1780292606"},{"product_id":"narrative-of-the-expedition-of-an-american-squadron-to-the-china-seas-and-japan-perry-expedition-1856","title":"Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan (Perry Expedition), 1856","description":"\u003ch2\u003eNarrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, 1856\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe official account of Commodore Matthew C. Perry's epochal expedition of 1852–1854, the mission that ended more than two centuries of Japanese seclusion and opened the country to trade with the wider world. Where every prior attempt had failed — four American expeditions and fourteen international ones before it — Perry succeeded, persuading Japan to sign the Treaty of Kanagawa on 31 March 1854.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the single-volume edition (the trade edition), an abbreviated form of the monumental three-volume set, yet complete in the crucial text describing the opening of Japan. It is handsomely illustrated, retaining an engraved frontispiece portrait with its tissue guard, nine lithograph plates, sixty-eight woodcuts, and eleven fold-out maps. The volume is bound in its original brown blind-stamped cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cornerstone work for any library of Japanese, American, or Pacific history — a foundational primary source on one of the defining encounters of the nineteenth century, here in a clean and solid original copy.\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":52455361642777,"sku":"N0000004283","price":190700.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20230902134912737847_2cdc690da9548cde990b590ceac2b0e1.jpg?v=1780292610"},{"product_id":"lushun-institute-of-technology-graduation-commemorative-photographic-album-1925","title":"Lushun Institute of Technology: Graduation Commemorative Photographic Album, 1925","description":"\u003ch2\u003eLushun Institute of Technology — Graduation Commemorative Photographic Album, December 1925\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA finely produced graduation commemorative album from the Lushun (Ryojun) Institute of Technology, issued in December 1925. Beyond its formal portraits, the album is unusually rich in working views: numerous on-site photographs of the departments of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and mining and metallurgy, capturing laboratories, workshops, and field practice as they actually were.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume also preserves sweeping panoramas of the Institute, of the city of Lushun, and of celebrated sights across Manchuria, making it both a record of one of the region's premier technical colleges and a wider visual survey of the period. For historians of engineering education, of the South Manchuria region, and of 1920s institutional photography, it is a documentary source of real depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn evocative and substantial album from the Taisho era, of clear appeal to collectors of East Asian historical and photographic 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":52455362527513,"sku":"N0000007983","price":171700.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20240624181241265297_3cff05c59d22b579b25147d4fadf057e.jpg?v=1780292613"},{"product_id":"railway-destination-sign-enamel-steel-hsinking-beijing-1932","title":"Railway Destination Sign (Enamel Steel): Hsinking \/ Beijing, 1932","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRailway Destination Sign (Enamel Steel) — Hsinking \/ Beijing, circa 1932\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA striking original railway relic from the early 1930s: a double-sided enamelled steel destination board, one face reading for Hsinking (the capital of Manchukuo), the other for Beijing. Mounted on a carriage, a board of this kind told travellers the route ahead — here connecting two of the great political centres of the era across the Northeast Asian rail network.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book but a tangible artefact of the railway itself: a heavy enamel-on-steel sign measuring approximately 15 by 65 centimetres, the lettering rendered in the durable vitreous enamel that gives such pieces their distinctive lustre and survival. The two destinations it names — Hsinking and Beijing — root it firmly in the geography and ambitions of 1932.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenuine period destination boards rarely survive in honest, displayable condition. As a piece of railway history to handle and exhibit, it offers a directness that printed sources cannot, and will make a commanding centrepiece for any collection of East Asian railway material.\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":52455362625817,"sku":"N0000014990","price":169400.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/288295712_large_86fcc8bb-6282-4a79-aa82-9d255eb8d19e.jpg?v=1780292618"},{"product_id":"the-current-state-of-the-manchukuo-medical-system-and-the-five-great-missions-of-medical-socialisation-mimeographed-field-document-1933","title":"The Current State of the Manchukuo Medical System, and the Five Great Missions of Medical Socialisation: Mimeographed Field Document, 1933","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Current State of the Manchukuo Medical System — Mimeographed Field Document, 1933\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exceptionally scarce mimeographed (stencil-duplicated) field document of 1933, setting out the contemporary medical system of the newly founded state of Manchukuo together with what its author termed the five great missions of medical socialisation. Prepared by a working reporter and circulated in the tiny quantities characteristic of stencil-duplicated material, documents of this kind were never formally published and almost never survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text is a detailed primary record of public-health administration on the Northeast Asian frontier. It treats the founding declaration of the state, the establishment of a social medical-relief system, patient statistics broken down by disease category, the organisation and functioning of the public relief hospitals, and a projected first-phase placement of those hospitals across the principal cities of the region — alongside notes on the institutions and public facilities along the railway corridor. As a contemporaneous account of how a medical and welfare apparatus was conceived and deployed, it offers material found in few other sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA document of real depth for historians of modern Chinese and Northeast Asian history, public health, and colonial administration.\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":52455378780441,"sku":"N0000012627","price":134000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20250701153746221954_7cca046760ad3593f6e639f8df756d1f.jpg?v=1780292631"},{"product_id":"a-medical-history-of-harbin-part-two-harbin-municipal-hospital-and-part-three-harbin-medical-university-by-ikuji-narita-1942","title":"A Medical History of Harbin: Part Two (Harbin Municipal Hospital) and Part Three (Harbin Medical University), by Ikuji Narita, 1942","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA Medical History of Harbin — Part Two: Harbin Municipal Hospital; Part Three: Harbin Medical University, 1942\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rare scholarly offprint of 1942 compiling a medical history of Harbin, authored by Ikuji Narita, professor at Harbin Medical University. The present volume gathers Part Two, on the Harbin Municipal Hospital, and Part Three, on Harbin Medical University and related matters — a documented account of the institutions, figures, and development of modern medicine in one of Northeast Asia's most important cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued as a separate offprint from the university's institutional journal, the work runs to 117 pages (including 24 pages of contemporary advertisements) in A5 format. A bibliographic note records that Part One, treating learned societies and other matters, appeared in the second number of the same journal, published in 1942 (Kangde 9). Offprints of this kind were produced for a narrow scholarly readership and seldom survive intact, making this a genuinely uncommon primary source.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor historians of medicine, of Harbin, and of the wider Manchurian region, it is a substantial and specific documentary record — a work of clear appeal to collectors of East Asian historical and medical 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":52455378813209,"sku":"N0000017701","price":124300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20180529212928139140_3034607b7341e2c5fa4976b0ce2ea77c.jpg?v=1780292635"},{"product_id":"manchuria-photographic-yearbook-1930-south-manchuria-railway-presidents-office-information-department","title":"Manchuria Photographic Yearbook: 1930, South Manchuria Railway, President's Office Information Department","description":"\u003ch2\u003eManchuria Photographic Yearbook — 1930\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA distinguished photographic yearbook of 1930, compiled and edited by the Information Department of the President's Office of the South Manchuria Railway. The volume gathers a curated selection of artistic photographs of the region by named photographers of the day — figures of village and city, station mornings, dust-laden plains, temple scenes, working people, and the changing light of the Manchurian landscape — each plate credited and accompanied by the photographers' own reflections and a closing critique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than a record, the yearbook is a considered survey of the pictorialist photographic culture that flourished around the South Manchuria Railway, presenting the region as both a place of work and a subject of art. Produced as an institutional annual, it was issued in limited quantity, and copies are now uncommon. For students of prewar East Asian photography, of the South Manchuria Railway, and of the visual self-image of 1930s Manchuria, it is a primary source of unusual richness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn elegant and substantial volume, of clear appeal to collectors of prewar East Asian photography and 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":52455379829017,"sku":"N0000004641","price":120600.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20240708163211031337_248d510a4305e33d0680be1dc5c70cbd.jpg?v=1780292639"},{"product_id":"station-traffic-survey-ekisei-ippan-complete-in-4-volumes-south-manchuria-railway-transportation-department-1913","title":"Station Traffic Survey (Ekisei Ippan): Complete in 4 Volumes, South Manchuria Railway Transportation Department, 1913","description":"\u003ch2\u003eStation Traffic Survey (Ekisei Ippan) — Complete in Four Volumes, 1913\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA scarce early survey of station traffic and operations, issued in 1913 by the Transportation Department of the South Manchuria Railway and here complete in all four volumes. Dating from the formative years of the railway's administration, the set assembles the operational particulars of its stations — the traffic, the lines, and the working data by which a young rail network measured and managed itself across the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternal operational surveys of this age rarely survive, still less as a complete multi-volume set. As a primary source the work speaks directly to the early-twentieth-century build-out of Northeast Asian rail infrastructure, documenting the network at a depth that narrative histories cannot match. The presence of all four volumes, one of them retaining its original errata slip, makes this an unusually full and serviceable example for research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine documentary set of the period, well suited to a serious collection of South Manchuria Railway 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":52455380058393,"sku":"N0000002920","price":122800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/297210451_large_58d6869a-c9d9-431a-9014-a2ac70c9e06d.jpg?v=1780292642"},{"product_id":"the-feetham-report-administrative-survey-of-the-shanghai-settlement-complete-in-3-volumes-manchurian-railway-international-series-parts-4-6-1932","title":"The Feetham Report: Administrative Survey of the Shanghai Settlement, Complete in 3 Volumes (Manchurian Railway International Series, Parts 4-6), 1932","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Feetham Report — Administrative Survey of the Shanghai Settlement, Complete in Three Volumes, 1932\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Japanese-language edition of the celebrated Feetham Report, the landmark administrative investigation into the Shanghai International Settlement, issued in 1932 as Parts Four, Five, and Six of the South Manchuria Railway's International Series and here complete in all three volumes (upper, middle, and lower). Translated for a Japanese institutional readership, the report set out a detailed examination of the governance, finances, and future of the Settlement at a pivotal moment in the history of the treaty-port city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew documents capture the legal and administrative intricacy of Shanghai's concession era as fully as this survey, which remains a standard reference for the study of the International Settlement. As an institutional translation issued within the railway's scholarly series, the set carries both the authority of the original investigation and the particular interest of how that investigation was received and circulated in the Japanese sphere. Complete three-volume runs are not easily found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA substantial primary source for historians of Shanghai, of the concession era, and of the legal and administrative history of modern East Asia.\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":52455380222233,"sku":"N0000004245","price":122800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/235956010_large_60e22068-5e89-4669-8c24-832b8992427e.jpg?v=1780292644"},{"product_id":"the-hulunbuir-situation-viewed-from-the-political-aspect-working-document-manchurian-railway-harbin-office-1938","title":"The Hulunbuir Situation Viewed from the Political Aspect: Working Document, Manchurian Railway Harbin Office, 1938","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Hulunbuir Situation Viewed from the Political Aspect — Working Document, 1938\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rare internal working document of 1938 examining the situation in Hulunbuir — the great grassland and border region of northwestern Manchuria — from a political standpoint. Compiled within the Harbin office of the South Manchuria Railway and issued as a reference paper of the regional general administration, the document was prepared for official use rather than public circulation, and survives in correspondingly small numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHulunbuir, with its frontier geography and complex political character, was a region of particular strategic attention in the late 1930s, and contemporary analyses of it are scarce. As a working reference paper, this document offers a primary, period view of how the area's political circumstances were assessed from within the administrative machinery of the time — the kind of internal source that anchors historical study in the operational record rather than in retrospective narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA specific and uncommon primary document for historians of modern Chinese and Northeast Asian history and of the Manchurian frontier.\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":52455381303577,"sku":"N0000004381","price":116300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/419413584_large_b3e7322b-6892-408d-99de-5564cedf65f6.jpg?v=1780292648"},{"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":"a-journey-to-manchuria-dalian-to-harbin-with-yingkou-fushun-andong-jilin-and-the-shanhai-pass-mdash-illustrated-travel-guide-1940","title":"A Journey to Manchuria: Dalian to Harbin, with Yingkou, Fushun, Andong, Jilin and the Shanhai Pass \u0026mdash; Illustrated Travel Guide, 1940","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA Journey to Manchuria — Dalian to Harbin, 1940\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA handsome line-by-line travel guide to Manchuria, published in 1940 and organised along the rail corridors of the region. The volume leads the traveller down the Ryojun (Lushun) line, the Kinjo branch, the Yingkou and Fushun branches, the Anho and Hozan lines, onward from Shinkyo (Changchun) to Jilin, and along the Keihin line — a sequential portrait of the Northeast as it was presented to the visitor on the eve of the 1940s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe guide opens with a suite of frontispiece photographs and closes with a folding general map of Manchukuo, while interleaved throughout are runs of commercial and industrial advertisements arranged by rail line — a rich incidental record of the cities, services, and businesses strung along the network. As a primary document of how the region was travelled, mapped, and marketed at its high-water moment, it offers historians of Northeast Asian geography, transport, and commercial culture a vivid and specific source.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine period guide of real documentary interest, well suited to a collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455394050329,"sku":"N0000000140","price":107400.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20250321120912467172_3d9d0cb920a2396b671e09121ac65cd3.jpg?v=1780292656"},{"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. Period photographic albums of the Russo-Japanese War rarely survive in such breadth, and the set is a documentary resource of considerable depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine and wide-ranging primary collection, well suited to a serious holding of military-historical documents and early East Asian war photography.\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":52455394803993,"sku":"N0000013772","price":108800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20240103153127432582_fb58e16f11de9bf985fd0557e474be26.jpg?v=1780292663"},{"product_id":"birds-eye-view-of-kongo-zan-diamond-mountain-korea-pictorial-map-chо̄sen-governor-generals-temporary-land-survey-bureau-1923","title":"Bird's-Eye View of Kongo-zan (Diamond Mountain), Korea: Pictorial Map, Chosen Governor-General's Temporary Land Survey Bureau, 1923","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBird's-Eye View of Kongo-zan (Diamond Mountain), Korea — Pictorial Map, 1923\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA finely realised bird's-eye pictorial map of Kongo-zan — the celebrated Diamond Mountains of Korea — issued by the Temporary Land Survey Bureau of the Chosen Governor-General, in a revised printing of 1922 and dated to 1923. Rendered in the aerial-perspective tradition, the sheet sweeps across the famed peaks, valleys, and scenic landmarks of one of East Asia's most renowned mountain landscapes, presenting the range as both topography and spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced during the period of colonial administration in Korea, the map belongs to the official survey and tourism culture of its day, and original sheets retaining their issuing folder are now uncommon. Beyond its evident decorative appeal, it stands as a primary cartographic document of how the Diamond Mountains were surveyed, named, and presented to the traveller in the early 1920s — a source of real interest to historians of cartography, of the colonial period in Korea, and of East Asian travel and landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn elegant and genuine pictorial map of the period, of clear appeal to collectors of historical maps and East Asian 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":52455395393817,"sku":"N0000000794","price":113100.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/547709235_large_2aef1a89-2a10-49e4-a17b-30059d470864.jpg?v=1780292666"},{"product_id":"manchuria-shinano-village-construction-council-complete-set-of-distribution-materials-1937","title":"Manchuria Shinano Village Construction Council: Complete Set of Distribution Materials, 1937","description":"\u003ch2\u003eManchuria Shinano Village Construction Council — Complete Set of Distribution Materials, 1937\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA scarce complete set of the materials distributed at the 1937 council on the construction of the Manchurian Shinano Village — one of the settlement-colonisation projects that sent emigrant communities from Japan's Nagano (Shinano) region to the Manchurian frontier. Handed out at a council convened at the Nagano Prefectural Library, the documents retain their original outer wrapper and gather the working papers placed before the participants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSettlement-colonisation ephemera of this kind — council hand-outs prepared for a specific gathering and never formally published — survive only rarely, and rarely as a complete set within its wrapper. As a primary source the materials speak directly to the planning, organisation, and promotion of agrarian emigration to Manchuria, documenting one of the defining social undertakings of the period from the inside. For historians of Manchurian colonisation, of prefectural emigration policy, and of Northeast Asian settlement history, it is a specific and uncommon resource.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine documentary set of the period, well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455395623193,"sku":"N0000013390","price":100600.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20200418114613268763_80b0d50512dc7ddf8bb456906e681f0f.jpg?v=1780292670"},{"product_id":"confidential-survey-report-on-sheep-and-wool-in-manchuria-and-mongolia-by-shigeyasu-ijima-classified-field-report-1933","title":"Confidential Survey Report on Sheep and Wool in Manchuria and Mongolia, by Shigeyasu Ijima: Classified Field Report, 1933","description":"\u003ch2\u003eConfidential Survey Report on Sheep and Wool in Manchuria and Mongolia — Classified Field Report, 1933\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA confidential (marked-secret) survey report of 1933 on sheep-raising and the wool trade across Manchuria and Mongolia, prepared by Shigeyasu Ijima. Compiled as a classified field investigation, the report sets out a detailed economic and agricultural account of the region's pastoral resources — the breeds, the husbandry, and the wool economy of the Manchurian and Mongolian grasslands — at the moment these lands were being assessed for their productive potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClassified survey reports of this kind were produced for restricted institutional use and almost never entered general circulation; complete copies retaining their apparatus are decidedly scarce. The present example is unusually full, preserving two folding maps complete and thirty-three leaves of photographic plates, with abundant supporting material throughout. As a primary economic-geographical source on the pastoral economy of Manchuria and Mongolia, it is a document of clear value to researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for students of Northeast Asian economic history, of pastoral and agricultural development, and of the period's frontier surveys — a genuine artefact for a serious collection of modern Chinese and Northeast 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":52455396180249,"sku":"N0000013097","price":89400.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20241106181600858785_06814db067322db5a93b35685215934c.jpg?v=1780292674"},{"product_id":"photograph-album-of-a-pre-war-railwayman-approximately-250-mounted-photographs-japan-and-manchuria-c-1935","title":"Photograph Album of a Pre-War Railwayman: Approximately 250 Mounted Photographs, Japan and Manchuria, c. 1935","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePhotograph Album of a Pre-War Railwayman — Approximately 250 Mounted Photographs, c. 1935\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA moving personal photograph album assembled by a pre-war railway employee, holding approximately two hundred and fifty mounted photographs that appear to span service at Higashine Station in Yamagata Prefecture and a later posting at Boketu Station in Manchuria. Among the images are two views taken before Boketu Station, four showing Manchurian steam locomotives, and many more recording the daily life of the railwayman, his family, and his associates across both the Japanese and Manchurian chapters of his working life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVernacular albums of this kind — private, first-hand, and unrepeatable — are among the most valuable of primary sources, preserving the lived texture of a frontier railway career in a way no official record can. The presence of original period photographs, from station platforms to family scenes, carries the immediacy of the time directly to the viewer. For historians of the South Manchuria sphere, of railway labour, and of prewar East Asian photography, it is a documentary treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine and affecting album of the period, of clear appeal to collectors of prewar East Asian photography and Northeast 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":52455396442393,"sku":"N0000011239","price":89300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20250416133314851843_5431422b47b8708ee8c96e28ee90fe6c.jpg?v=1780292679"},{"product_id":"on-the-distinctive-character-of-the-harbin-city-planning-scheme-harbin-municipal-office-urban-construction-section-1938","title":"On the Distinctive Character of the Harbin City Planning Scheme: Harbin Municipal Office, Urban Construction Section, 1938","description":"\u003ch2\u003eOn the Distinctive Character of the Harbin City Planning Scheme — 1938\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA scarce official monograph of 1938, issued by the Urban Construction Section of the Harbin Municipal Office, setting out the outline of the Harbin city-planning enterprise and explaining what made it distinctive. Compiled at the height of the Manchukuo era, the work presents the planners' own account of how one of the great cities of the Northeast was to be ordered, zoned, and built — the ambitions of state urbanism rendered from the inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume is illustrated with twenty-seven photographic views and, most notably, carries a large folding colour plate, the Outline Map of the Harbin City Planning Scheme, printed in colour at approximately 38 by 34 centimetres. Official planning reports of this kind were produced for restricted institutional use and seldom preserved with their folding map intact; surviving copies are accordingly uncommon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a primary source it speaks directly to the architecture, cartography, and administrative vision of Harbin under the planning regime of the late 1930s — a specific and substantial document for historians of modern East Asian urbanism and of Manchukuo-era city building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine artefact of its moment, well suited to a serious collection of architectural and photographic books 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":52455468400921,"sku":"N0000010819","price":81200.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20220809105125724867_0c8db2948e92bd2bbc7edc50bfdc7566.jpg?v=1780292682"},{"product_id":"construction-kensetsu-volume-1-issues-1-2-journal-of-the-manchuria-road-research-society-1936","title":"Construction (Kensetsu), Volume 1, Issues 1-2: Journal of the Manchuria Road Research Society, 1936","description":"\u003ch2\u003eConstruction (Kensetsu) — Volume 1, Issues 1 and 2, 1936\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first two issues of Construction, the journal of the Manchuria Road Research Society, the research body of the region's road engineers, housed within the New Kyoto (Shinkyo) National Highway Bureau. Issue one appeared in May 1936 and issue two in July of the same year, together forming the opening run of a technical periodical devoted to the roads and bridges of Manchukuo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inaugural number opens with congratulatory addresses from the society's president and a senior civil-administration official, followed by papers on the roads of Manchukuo, on aerial photographic surveying contributed by an army engineering officer of the Kwantung Army survey corps, and on the great Nen River bridge, together with bulletins on river-control and embankment works. The second number gathers studies on recent trends in road works, on a survey of bridge sites along the Korea-Manchuria border, on street lighting, and on the history of road development within Harbin contributed by a municipal works engineer, with a frontispiece photogravure section recording six bridge- and embankment-construction projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a primary engineering source, these founding issues document the infrastructure ambitions of the Northeast at first hand — the surveys, bridges, and roadways through which the frontier was being remade. Technical serials of this kind rarely survive from their opening run, making the pair a specific and uncommon resource for historians of Manchurian civil engineering and Northeast Asian development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine period document, well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455468564761,"sku":"N0000016626","price":83300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20220207160428520227_1ee6619b424261bb9f9fff02490ab289.jpg?v=1780292685"},{"product_id":"manchurian-railway-construction-record-manshu-tetsudo-kensetsu-shi-compiled-by-the-south-manchuria-railway-1939","title":"Manchurian Railway Construction Record (Manshu Tetsudo Kensetsu-shi): Compiled by the South Manchuria Railway, 1939","description":"\u003ch2\u003eManchurian Railway Construction Record — 1939\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn official construction record of the Manchurian railways, compiled by the South Manchuria Railway and published in 1939. The volume sets down the company's own account of how the rail network of the Northeast was surveyed, engineered, and built — a documentary history of the iron arteries through which Manchuria was opened, administered, and bound to the wider region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew institutions shaped the modern Northeast as decisively as the South Manchuria Railway, and a construction record issued under its own authority carries the weight of a primary corporate and engineering source. It speaks directly to the planning and execution of one of the great railway undertakings of early twentieth-century Asia, and to the administrative ambition that drove it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor historians of the South Manchuria Railway, of railway engineering, and of Northeast Asian development, it is a specific and substantial reference — a genuine artefact for a serious collection of South Manchuria Railway 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":52455468826905,"sku":"N0000016450","price":84200.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/191522725_large_5c1a229a-8482-4067-91ad-e5a7c73670c8.jpg?v=1780292690"},{"product_id":"investigation-report-on-the-commercial-port-of-vladivostok-volume-10-south-manchuria-railway-general-affairs-department-research-section-1921","title":"Investigation Report on the Commercial Port of Vladivostok, Volume 10: South Manchuria Railway, General Affairs Department, Research Section, 1921","description":"\u003ch2\u003eInvestigation Report on the Commercial Port of Vladivostok — Volume 10, 1921\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA volume of the investigation report on the commercial port of Vladivostok, the tenth in the series, prepared by the Research Section of the General Affairs Department of the South Manchuria Railway and dated 1921. Compiled in the years immediately following the upheavals on Russia's Pacific seaboard, the report sets out a detailed institutional survey of the great Far Eastern port — its harbour, trade, and commercial standing — at a moment when its future was of acute strategic and economic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe South Manchuria Railway's research apparatus was among the most thorough intelligence-gathering operations of its day, and its investigation reports were produced for restricted institutional use rather than general circulation. Individual volumes survive only sparingly, and a primary survey of Vladivostok issued from this source is a specific and uncommon document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an economic-geographical source on the commercial port and its place in the trade of the Northeast Pacific, it is of clear value to historians of the South Manchuria Railway sphere, of Russo-Japanese commercial relations, and of Northeast Asian maritime history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine institutional report of the period, well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455469383961,"sku":"N0000000005","price":84200.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/235956499_large_281e9b0e-ebb6-4cb2-b1f0-c42761e989df.jpg?v=1780292693"},{"product_id":"okinawa-photograph-album-first-and-second-series-two-volumes-by-soichiro-sakaguchi-1925","title":"Okinawa Photograph Album, First and Second Series: Two Volumes by Soichiro Sakaguchi, 1925","description":"\u003ch2\u003eOkinawa Photograph Album — First and Second Series, Two Volumes, 1925\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pre-war photographic album of Okinawa in two volumes, the first and second series, compiled by Soichiro Sakaguchi and published in 1925. Together the volumes assemble a wide-ranging pictorial survey of the Ryukyu islands as they stood in the Taisho years — the old Shuri castle and its precincts, the sacred groves and great banyan trees, the coastlines and gorges of Iriomote and the outer islands, the mangrove forests, the markets and harbours, and scenes of island life and craft from sugar cultivation to bonito processing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the plates are the former Shuri castle main hall, the ancient akagi tree of Hantan hill outside the castle, the banyan of Yagaji island, the mangrove forests of the Nakara river, scenes at Nago and Watanji harbour, and views across Yaeyama and Miyako — a panorama of pre-war Okinawan landscape, architecture, and custom recorded before the transformations of the mid-century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeriod photographic albums of Okinawa from the 1920s are now genuinely scarce, and as a primary visual record of the islands before the war the set is a documentary source of real depth, of clear interest to historians of Okinawa, of Japanese landscape and ethnography, and of early twentieth-century photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine and evocative pair of the period, well suited to a serious collection of Japanese art, aesthetics, and 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":52455469678873,"sku":"N0000005259","price":71100.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20250620152118016957_3c7cbe24714a70c1dbe3b7a04403c1f8.jpg?v=1780292696"},{"product_id":"geography-and-customs-world-photograph-album-sixth-edition-with-chinese-translation-by-zhang-chuntao-1917","title":"Geography and Customs: World Photograph Album, Sixth Edition, with Chinese Translation by Zhang Chuntao, 1917","description":"\u003ch2\u003eGeography and Customs: World Photograph Album — Sixth Edition, 1917\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA photographic survey of the world's geography and customs, the sixth edition, edited by Antaro Shoda with a Chinese translation by Zhang Chuntao, published in May 1917. The volume gathers a wide array of photographs of lands and peoples across the globe, each presented with bilingual text so that the work could be read in both Japanese and Chinese — a deliberate instrument of international understanding and cross-cultural exchange in its day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe presence of a parallel Chinese translation is what distinguishes this album. Produced in the late Taisho years, it reflects a moment of active intellectual traffic across East Asia, when a single illustrated geography could be addressed at once to Japanese and Chinese readers. As such it carries value not only as a pictorial record of the world's regions and peoples but as a document of the period's ethnography, geography, and the shared print culture that linked the two reading publics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA specific and uncommon survival, of clear interest to historians of geography and ethnography, of early twentieth-century photography, and of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange — a genuine artefact for a serious collection of pre-war Chinese photography 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":52455469973785,"sku":"N0000013659","price":71900.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20220517200630021756_d4a4c2931ad5605c2e73450b1b754447.jpg?v=1780292700"},{"product_id":"border-and-economic-map-of-manchuria-mongolia-soviet-territory-and-north-china-scale-1-4-000-000-with-statistical-summaries-1936","title":"Border and Economic Map of Manchuria, Mongolia, Soviet Territory and North China, Scale 1:4,000,000: With Statistical Summaries, 1936","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBorder and Economic Map of Manchuria, Mongolia, Soviet Territory and North China — Scale 1:4,000,000, 1936\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA large-scale border and economic map of 1936 covering Manchuria, Mongolia, the adjoining Soviet territory, and North China, drawn at a scale of one to four million and accompanied by statistical summaries of Manchuria and of the five provinces of North China. The sheet sets the political borders of the Northeast and the China frontier against an economic reading of the region — resources, administration, and the statistical anatomy of lands then at the centre of contending interests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced at a moment of mounting strategic attention to the Manchuria-Mongolia-Soviet frontier and to North China, the map is a primary cartographic and economic document of how those territories were measured, bordered, and assessed on the eve of wider conflict. Period maps of this scope, pairing a border depiction with statistical apparatus, are specific survivals of real documentary interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine cartographic source of the period, of clear appeal to historians of cartography, of Northeast Asian geography and economy, and to collectors of historical maps of China and East Asian 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":52455470268697,"sku":"N0000007385","price":81200.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/235956155_large_82eb42c4-de72-46da-808f-89efb42502d3.jpg?v=1780292703"},{"product_id":"manchuria-mongolia-and-korea-compiled-by-sajiro-uehara-1929","title":"Manchuria, Mongolia and Korea: Compiled by Sajiro Uehara, 1929","description":"\u003ch2\u003eManchuria, Mongolia and Korea — 1929\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA general survey of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Korea, compiled and written by Sajiro Uehara and published in 1929. Running to some two hundred and sixty-three pages, the volume gathers a regional overview of the three territories that lay at the heart of continental affairs in the inter-war years — their geography, conditions, and circumstances drawn together in a single contemporary account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued at the close of the 1920s, the work reflects how these adjoining lands were understood and presented as a connected sphere in the years before the upheavals of the following decade. As a period synthesis it offers historians a primary reading of the region's geography and standing at a specific and consequential moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine survey of its time, well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455470399769,"sku":"N0000005856","price":65800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20240208131457026193_fcf2c7f4dfc4aa145b7c6b3900fa4d2f.jpg?v=1780292706"},{"product_id":"bilingual-verses-on-the-triumphant-return-from-the-china-campaign-part-six-1894","title":"Bilingual Verses on the Triumphant Return from the China Campaign, Part Six, 1894","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBilingual Verses on the Triumphant Return from the China Campaign — Part Six, 1894\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lithographed bilingual broadside from 1894, the year of the first Sino-Japanese War, celebrating the triumphant return from the China campaign in paired verses. 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":"whos-who-of-manchuria-manshu-shinshi-roku-second-edition-1940","title":"Who's Who of Manchuria (Manshu Shinshi-roku), Second Edition, 1940","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWho's Who of Manchuria — Second Edition, 1940\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second edition of the Who's Who of Manchuria, a biographical register of the notable figures of the region, published in 1940. Directories of this kind assembled the names, positions, and particulars of the administrators, businessmen, and public figures of Manchukuo — a contemporary roll of the people who staffed and shaped the Northeast at the close of the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBiographical registers are among the most useful of primary sources for the social and institutional history of a place and period, mapping the networks of office and enterprise as they stood at a fixed moment. As a record of who held position and standing in Manchuria in 1940, this second edition is a specific reference of real value to researchers of the region's administrative and commercial elite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine documentary register of the period, well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455471251737,"sku":"N0000006664","price":65200.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20240722043331683831_0838b0427005d83ef615e84ea3b677fe.jpg?v=1780292713"},{"product_id":"the-peoples-and-religions-of-manchuria-and-mongolia-akamatsu-chiko-and-akiba-takashi-1941","title":"The Peoples and Religions of Manchuria and Mongolia: Akamatsu Chiko and Akiba Takashi, 1941","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Peoples and Religions of Manchuria and Mongolia — 1941\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA scholarly study of the ethnic groups and religious life of Manchuria and Mongolia, written jointly by Akamatsu Chiko and Akiba Takashi and published in 1941. Both authors were established academic figures in the ethnography and religious sociology of the Asian continent, and the work brings their fieldwork and analysis to bear on the diverse peoples of the Northeast and the Mongolian steppe — their beliefs, ritual practices, and the religious structures that ordered their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced at the height of academic attention to the continent, the volume stands among the substantive ethnographic and religious studies of its day, addressing shamanism, folk belief, and the religious worlds of the region's peoples with the seriousness of trained scholarship rather than mere reportage. As a primary academic source it speaks directly to the anthropology and history of religion of Manchuria and Mongolia at a defined moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine work of period scholarship, of clear interest to historians of East Asian ethnography and religion, and well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455487799577,"sku":"N0000017149","price":60400.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20230331161933728091_10a21a5f32a67fb01989f9a44f2218f1.jpg?v=1780292715"},{"product_id":"record-of-the-renshin-year-harbin-flood-disaster-compiled-by-the-harbin-flood-relief-and-reconstruction-committee-1934","title":"Record of the Renshin Year Harbin Flood Disaster: Compiled by the Harbin Flood Relief and Reconstruction Committee, 1934","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRecord of the Renshin Year Harbin Flood Disaster — 1934\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn official documentary record of the great Harbin flood, compiled by the Harbin Flood Relief and Reconstruction Committee and published in 1934. The catastrophic inundation of the city by the Sungari river was among the defining disasters of the Northeast in the inter-war years, and this volume sets down the committee's own comprehensive account of its causes, course, and aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is organised into nine chapters that together form an exhaustive institutional record: the causes of the flood; the progress of the disaster; the drainage works; the relief of the afflicted population; the epidemic-prevention campaign; the measures taken to maintain public order; the relief funds; the losses sustained through the flood; and the reconstruction and rehabilitation enterprise. Few primary sources document a single urban disaster and its administrative response in such systematic depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a first-hand record of catastrophe and recovery in Harbin, the volume is of substantial value to historians of the city, of disaster and public health, and of Northeast Asian urban administration. Official disaster reports of this kind were issued for institutional use and seldom preserved; surviving copies are accordingly uncommon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine institutional record of the period, well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455488160025,"sku":"N0000017438","price":51300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20240521084909018043_5f4a44225e2ca6a94ff0acf641e40057.jpg?v=1780292721"},{"product_id":"outline-of-the-state-of-harbin-special-city-kotoku-3-edition-harbin-special-city-public-office-1937","title":"Outline of the State of Harbin Special City, Kotoku 3 Edition: Harbin Special City Public Office, 1937","description":"\u003ch2\u003eOutline of the State of Harbin Special City — Kotoku 3 Edition, 1937\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn official statistical and administrative outline of Harbin Special City, the Kotoku 3 edition, issued by the Harbin Special City Public Office in 1937. The volume sets out a comprehensive portrait of the city as it stood under Manchukuo administration — its government, population, economy, and civic conditions assembled from official sources into a single authoritative overview running to some two hundred and ninety-five pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is prefaced by a substantial photographic section of twenty-eight pages, providing a contemporary visual record of Harbin's streets, institutions, and public works alongside the statistical text. Official city outlines of this kind were produced for institutional and administrative use rather than general sale, and they preserve a fixed and detailed reading of a great Northeastern city at a particular moment in its history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a primary administrative and statistical source, the volume is of clear value to historians of Harbin, of Manchukuo-era urban government, and of the social and economic life of the Northeast. Surviving copies are a specific and uncommon resource.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine official document of the period, well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455488717081,"sku":"N0000017378","price":50800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/616720464_large_8228a6f2-1616-4dca-ada7-1efd219df53c.jpg?v=1780292724"},{"product_id":"photographic-album-of-korean-bells-takahashi-kenji-1910","title":"Photographic Album of Korean Bells: Takahashi Kenji, 1910","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePhotographic Album of Korean Bells — 1910\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA photographic album of the ancient bells of Korea, compiled by Takahashi Kenji and published in 1910. The work assembles a pictorial record of the great cast-bronze temple bells of the Korean peninsula — among the most celebrated achievements of East Asian metalwork, prized for their form, their ornament, and the deep resonance for which they were renowned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompiled by a serious student of the field, the album presents these bells as objects of art and antiquity, recording their shapes, decorative friezes, and inscriptions in photographic plates at a time when systematic visual documentation of the peninsula's antiquities was still in its early years. As a primary visual source it preserves the appearance of these works of sacred bronze as they stood at the opening of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine and uncommon photographic record, of clear interest to students of Korean and East Asian art, of metalwork and casting, and of the history of bells — well suited to a serious collection of Japanese and East Asian art and aesthetics.\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":52455488913689,"sku":"N0000006819","price":52100.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/573500271_large_3643c9bb-39a7-49f1-90ca-ab00bacbb3c3.jpg?v=1780292728"},{"product_id":"street-map-of-harbin-scale-1-16-000-hirooka-mitsuji-1941","title":"Street Map of Harbin, Scale 1:16,000: Hirooka Mitsuji, 1941","description":"\u003ch2\u003eStreet Map of Harbin — Scale 1:16,000, 1941\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA detailed street map of Harbin compiled by Hirooka Mitsuji and published in 1941, drawn to a scale of one to sixteen thousand and printed with street names throughout. The sheet sets out the layout of the city at the height of the Manchukuo era — its avenues, districts, and thoroughfares rendered in the close detail of a working city plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe map carries, as inset panels, a regional map of the Manchukuo territory and a Japan-Manchuria communication and transport map, situating Harbin within the wider geography of the Northeast and its connections. It was issued in its own paper folder, titled the Complete Map of Harbin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a primary cartographic source, a named street map of Harbin at this scale offers a precise reading of the city's form and toponymy at a fixed moment, of clear value to historians of Harbin, of urban cartography, and of the Northeast. Folding city maps of this kind, issued for practical use, survive only sparingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine cartographic artefact of the period, well suited to a serious collection of historical maps of China 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":52455489274137,"sku":"N0000009983","price":46100.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20240810121816773074_ed4ea192a66c36ac8170fde533799569.jpg?v=1780292731"},{"product_id":"the-latest-overview-of-harbin-sakaguchi-tokuzaburo-1941","title":"The Latest Overview of Harbin: Sakaguchi Tokuzaburo, 1941","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Latest Overview of Harbin — 1941\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA contemporary overview of Harbin, edited and printed by Sakaguchi Tokuzaburo and published in 1941. The volume offers a survey of the city at the height of the Manchukuo era — its conditions, institutions, and civic life set down as a current account for readers seeking to understand one of the great cities of the Northeast as it then stood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued in 1941, the work captures Harbin at a defined and consequential moment, drawing together a picture of the city's circumstances in the years of mounting continental tension. As a period overview it provides historians a primary contemporary reading of the city's standing and character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine survey of its time, of clear interest to historians of Harbin and of the Northeast, and well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455489569049,"sku":"N0000004248","price":42300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20230117190953598113_3256cdd8b6eae17a0c39ea1d273ed68f.jpg?v=1780292734"},{"product_id":"sightseeing-in-manchuria-a-travel-account-of-china-muneo-shoji-south-manchuria-railway-dairen-1922","title":"Sightseeing in Manchuria, a Travel Account of China: Muneo Shoji, South Manchuria Railway, Dairen, 1922","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSightseeing in Manchuria, a Travel Account of China — 1922\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA travel account of Manchuria and China by Muneo Shoji, issued in 1922 in connection with the head office of the South Manchuria Railway at Dairen. The volume records a journey across the continent in the early 1920s, carrying the reader through the principal cities of the Northeast and beyond — among them Dairen, Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin, Peking, Harbin, Mukden, and Port Arthur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRunning to one hundred and eighty-one pages and illustrated with sixteen photographic views, the work combines narrative travel with a pictorial record of the cities and routes of the period, and is furnished with an outline map of the principal inter-city distances. Travelogues of this kind, written as the railway opened the continent to movement, blend first-hand observation with the texture of a journey actually made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a primary travel source it offers historians a contemporary reading of the cities and landscapes of Manchuria and China in the early 1920s, of clear interest to students of travel, of the South Manchuria Railway sphere, and of the Northeast — a genuine period account well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455490158873,"sku":"N0000004475","price":35900.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/4198821_large_c4365e52-573c-430a-af9e-38e076f52eb2.jpg?v=1780292738"},{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-russian-and-chinese-influence-centred-on-the-chinese-eastern-railway-south-manchuria-railway-harbin-office-transport-section-1928","title":"The Rise and Fall of Russian and Chinese Influence Centred on the Chinese Eastern Railway: South Manchuria Railway, Harbin Office, Transport Section, 1928","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Russian and Chinese Influence Centred on the Chinese Eastern Railway — 1928\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA study of the contest of Russian and Chinese influence along the Chinese Eastern Railway, compiled by the Transport Section of the Harbin Office of the South Manchuria Railway and published in 1928. The Chinese Eastern Railway, running across northern Manchuria, was for decades a focus of competing Russian and Chinese interests, and this volume traces the waxing and waning of those rival forces along its line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe South Manchuria Railway's research apparatus was among the most thorough institutional intelligence operations of its day, and a study issued from its Harbin transport section carries the weight of a primary corporate and political source. It addresses the strategic and economic rivalry along one of the great railways of the Northeast at a moment of acute attention to the question, on the eve of the upheavals of the following years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a primary source on railway geopolitics and the Russo-Chinese contest in northern Manchuria, the volume is of clear value to historians of the South Manchuria Railway sphere, of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and of Northeast Asian affairs. Institutional studies of this kind were produced for restricted use and survive only sparingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine research document of the period, well suited to a serious collection of South Manchuria Railway 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":52455490355481,"sku":"N0000011718","price":30200.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20231213152125210475_225420acded623f134d842f7bb8b9029.jpg?v=1780292741"},{"product_id":"outline-of-the-municipal-administration-of-harbin-special-city-harbin-special-city-public-office-1937","title":"Outline of the Municipal Administration of Harbin Special City: Harbin Special City Public Office, 1937","description":"\u003ch2\u003eOutline of the Municipal Administration of Harbin Special City — 1937\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn official outline of the municipal administration of Harbin Special City, compiled by the Harbin Special City Public Office and published in 1937. The volume sets out the structure and workings of the city's government under Manchukuo — its administrative organisation, public works, finances, and civic services drawn together into an authoritative account of how one of the great cities of the Northeast was governed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work comprises a nineteen-page frontispiece section, six pages of contents, two hundred and ninety-five pages of main text, a five-page appendix, and a seven-page supplement, forming a thorough institutional record. Official administrative outlines of this kind were issued for governmental and institutional use, preserving a detailed and fixed account of urban government at a particular moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a primary administrative source, the volume is of clear value to historians of Harbin, of Manchukuo-era city government, and of the civic life of the Northeast. Surviving copies are a specific and uncommon resource.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine official document of the period, well suited to a serious collection of Manchuria and Northeast 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":52455490814233,"sku":"N0000017381","price":32700.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20220701183704773163_4430db660ff29ed2cbffba1a38bfd8db.jpg?v=1780292746"},{"product_id":"handbook-of-the-harbin-railway-bureau-harbin-railway-bureau-1936","title":"Handbook of the Harbin Railway Bureau: Harbin Railway Bureau, 1936","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHandbook of the Harbin Railway Bureau — 1936\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn official handbook of the Harbin Railway Bureau, issued by the bureau itself in 1936. The leaflet presents a concise institutional overview of the railway administration governing the lines around Harbin, with its operating statistics current as of the first of July of that year. It draws together an outline of the bureau, the conditions of its several lines, summaries of the principal cities along their routes, the resources within the territories they served, and an account of the founding of the Chinese Eastern Railway and its transfer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe handbook is furnished with a colour-printed industrial map of the several lines, setting the railway network of the region against the resources it traversed. Official bureau handbooks of this kind were produced for institutional and operational use, preserving a fixed reading of the railway administration of the Northeast at a particular moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a primary source on the organisation and reach of the Harbin railway network, the leaflet is of clear value to historians of railways, of the South Manchuria Railway sphere, and of the Northeast. Ephemeral institutional leaflets of this kind survive only sparingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine railway document of the period, well suited to a serious collection of South Manchuria Railway 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":52455491272985,"sku":"N0000001071","price":31800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20210702153908848975_7c60d24269bc715b4f7ee2fa2426eec4.jpg?v=1780292750"},{"product_id":"harbin-and-its-customs-an-on-site-photographic-collection-by-fujii-kinjiro-1943","title":"Harbin and Its Customs: An On-Site Photographic Collection by Fujii Kinjiro, 1943","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHarbin and Its Customs: An On-Site Photographic Collection — 1943\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn on-site photographic collection of Harbin and its customs, taken by Fujii Kinjiro and published in 1943. Compiled from photographs made in the city itself, the work assembles a contemporary visual record of Harbin's streets, manners, and daily life in the closing years of the Manchukuo era — a primary pictorial document of the city as it was actually seen and recorded on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first edition. As a first-hand photographic survey, the collection preserves the appearance and texture of wartime Harbin at a defined and late moment in its history, of clear value to historians of the city, of pre-war and wartime photography, and of the social life of the Northeast. On-site photographic collections of this kind, made and issued in the final years of the period, are uncommon survivals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genuine and evocative photographic record, well suited to a serious collection of pre-war China photography 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":52455491567897,"sku":"N0000017563","price":29500.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20210708210511779389_8431459a719be792411d8643b999f616.jpg?v=1780292753"},{"product_id":"map-of-the-city-of-harbin-china-1942-large-single-sheet-street-map","title":"Map of the City of Harbin (China), 1942 - Large Single-Sheet Street Map","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMap of the City of Harbin (China), 1942\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA striking large-format street map of Harbin, the great cosmopolitan railway city of northern Manchuria, printed in 1942. Measuring approximately 76 by 54 centimetres and produced on a single sheet, this cartographic document captures the dense urban fabric of a city that, in the first half of the twentieth century, stood at the crossroads of Chinese, Russian, and Japanese influence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarbin grew rapidly from the late nineteenth century around the Chinese Eastern Railway, attracting merchants, engineers, and emigrants from across Eurasia. By the 1940s it had become one of the most distinctive cities of the region, known for its Russian-influenced architecture, its multinational commercial districts, and its role as a transport hub linking the rail and river networks of the north. A street map of this scale and date offers a rare window onto the layout, districts, and infrastructure of the wartime city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a primary cartographic resource of genuine historical interest to collectors of East Asian historical materials, students of Manchurian urban history, and those drawn to the rich, layered story of Harbin itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455508771097,"sku":"N0000005875","price":33800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20201015163737507613_9b7b5fd806cbd7a692824ad02024978c.jpg?v=1780292758"},{"product_id":"tourist-northern-manchuria-harbin-railway-bureau-northern-manchuria-river-transport-bureau-1940","title":"Tourist Northern Manchuria - Harbin Railway Bureau \u0026 Northern Manchuria River Transport Bureau, 1940","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTourist Northern Manchuria, 1940\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn evocative travel guide to northern Manchuria, compiled in 1940 by the Harbin Railway Bureau together with the Northern Manchuria River Transport Bureau. The piece is illustrated throughout with a full-colour pictorial map, and its reverse carries a wealth of supplementary material, including a tourist guide to northern Manchuria, sections on travel by railway and by riverboat, and a Manchurian transport map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued at the height of the era when northern Manchuria was being promoted to travellers, this guide reflects the period's fascination with the landscapes, rail lines, and river routes of the region. The combination of decorative cartography and practical itinerary information makes it both a visually appealing object and a documentary record of how travel across the north was presented to the public of its day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA characterful survival for collectors of Manchurian and Northeast Asian historical materials, vintage travel ephemera, and pictorial cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455508803865,"sku":"N0000004110","price":27100.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20210319143028741495_d9006d320c8cf4a511a1737cfdc5c6ad.jpg?v=1780292763"},{"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. Shigema Narisawa, 1901","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHistory of the Sino-Japanese War, 1901\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Japanese-language history of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), translated by Shigema Narisawa from the work of the French author Maxime Sauvage and published in 1901. This volume is notable as an early example of a Western military history rendered into Japanese, allowing readers of the period to study the conflict through a French analytical lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe First Sino-Japanese War was a turning point in the modern history of East Asia, reshaping the balance of power between China and Japan and setting the stage for the geopolitical struggles of the decades that followed. A contemporary account drawn from French sources and presented to a Japanese readership offers a distinctive cross-cultural perspective on the campaigns, strategy, and consequences of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a scarce early-twentieth-century military history of real documentary value to collectors of military historical documents and students of late Meiji-era publishing and translation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455509360921,"sku":"N0000005373","price":24100.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20200927145443499184_b80be212ab4094d55d2ace3a10cd8ae8.jpg?v=1780292765"},{"product_id":"secret-history-of-chinese-diplomacy-by-li-dingyi-trans-yaokichi-miyazaki-1920","title":"Secret History of Chinese Diplomacy by Li Dingyi, trans. Yaokichi Miyazaki, 1920","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSecret History of Chinese Diplomacy, 1920\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Japanese-language translation of Li Dingyi's account of Chinese diplomacy, rendered by Yaokichi Miyazaki and published by Sekai Koronsha in 1920 (Taisho 9). The work addresses the inner workings and episodes of Chinese diplomatic affairs, offering readers of the day a means of understanding the international relations of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced in the aftermath of the First World War and amid the upheavals of early Republican China, this translation belongs to a body of Japanese publishing devoted to interpreting China's political and diplomatic landscape for a domestic audience. For those interested in the diplomatic history of the period, it stands as an intriguing documentary resource that reflects both its Chinese authorship and its Japanese reception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA worthwhile addition for collectors of modern Chinese history and students of early-twentieth-century East Asian diplomacy and publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455509655833,"sku":"N0000016246","price":20300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20230912221548311492_8c03f7e1b4cfe35a262a4665b786d699.jpg?v=1780292768"},{"product_id":"pictorial-album-of-the-russo-japanese-war-1904-set-of-twelve-plates-with-envelope","title":"Pictorial Album of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904 - Set of Twelve Plates with Envelope","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePictorial Album of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vivid pictorial album of the Russo-Japanese War, issued in 1904 and comprising a set of twelve illustrated plates housed in their original envelope. 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. Combining documentary subject matter with the bold visual style of early-twentieth-century war imagery, the set is both a historical record and an example of the popular print culture of its moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compelling acquisition for collectors of military historical documents, Russo-Japanese War material, and early-twentieth-century Japanese pictorial works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KT Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52455509950745,"sku":"N0000005035","price":17800.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/2264\/9113\/files\/20221221093813683019_8daac3061ffef4678cd6b494b2fe3f90.jpg?v=1780292773"}],"url":"https:\/\/kujira-vintage.myshopify.com\/collections\/new-arrivals.oembed","provider":"KT Japan Curio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}