Japanese Manners and Customs: 1867

[Charles]

[SIZE="3"]Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs[/SIZE]
by J. M. W. Silver
Lieut Royal Marines Light Infantry


Full high resolution scans of this profusely illustrated book have been posted online at the Doshisha University Digital Archive of Rare Materials.

Via MeFi

[Greji]

[SIZE="3"]Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs[/SIZE]
by J. M. W. Silver
Lieut Royal Marines Light Infantry

Full high resolution scans of this profusely illustrated book have been posted online at the Doshisha University Digital Archive of Rare Materials.

Via MeFi

Nice find Charles, especially the Doshisha page. I have to admit that even sometimes the Hawkeyes score a touchdown. But the Illini beat Ohio State!

[Charles]

Nice find Charles, especially the Doshisha page. I have to admit that even sometimes the Hawkeyes score a touchdown. But the Illini beat Ohio State!

Yeah, there's lots of other goodies in the Doshisha archive. I found a nice print of a Black Ship in a volume intriguingly titled "Nihon koki, described as "Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan (1856)." These prints look a little more authentic than the JMW Silver edition, that volume looks like British artists transcribing ukiyo-e and not quite understanding what's going on at some points.l But the Nihon Koki is by native artists.

These scans are great, they're done on a photographic copy stand with really good lighting, and have Kodak colorimetry swatches so it's easy to clean up the color. I thought I did a pretty good job cleaning up that sample pic, removing the color casts from the yellowing paper.