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ONNA DAI RAKU TAKARA BEKI: GREAT PLEASURE FOR LADIES ON OPENING THEIR TREASURE-B by [TSUKIOKA, Settei.]

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Title: ONNA DAI RAKU TAKARA BEKI: GREAT PLEASURE FOR LADIES ON OPENING THEIR TREASURE-B
Author: [TSUKIOKA, Settei.]
Seller: Rare Oriental Book Company, ABAA, ILAB - AN ART AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPANY (United States)
Description: Japan [1751], np. New green silk cloth-covered boards, 113 double-folded leaves, woodblock printed by hand on hand-made paper, first few pages later amateur color, thumbed, else as issued, illustrated on nearly every page, 18 x 25 cm. RARE ! *** *** *** . . . EXCEPTIONALLY RARE & EARLY, STUNNINGLY EROTIC . . . PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED HARU BON [Erotic Book] . . This is a famous book, inspired by another famous work by the great Kaibara Eikken: "PARODIES OF ONNA DAIGAKU TAKARA BAKO [GREAT LEARNING FOR LADIES OPENING THEIR TREASURE BOX" i.e. opening their locked vaginas to pleasure. 'Precious Box' or 'Treasure Strong-Box' has been synonyms for "Oman ko" [colloquial for 'vagina' or 'pussy'] from time immemorial in Japan. . *** A FAMOUS AND VERY EARLY PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED EROTIC BOOK: This is an early erotic illustrated book, with color woodblock printing on the frontispiece page, the balance of the work is in Sumi [black India ink & white] entirely hand printed on hand-made Washi paper, contained in a new indigo Chitsu [folding case] with new title labels, two bone clips. The fascinating point of this unusual work is that women of all classes of Japanese society are illustrated and discussed as all have the same basic instincts, erotic nature, erotic zones and erotic pleasures. The work was designed and illustrated to be an erotic training book for women and girls. . *** This book illustrates various classes of Japanese society, farmers life, showing the threshing of and planting of paddy rice by both men and women, most of whom are engaged in love making while performing their tasks. The book then continues into Japanese court life taken from the Tale of Genji, with nobles fully engaged in love-making throughout. This set of illustrations are done in the old Momoyama style, where the viewer is somewhere in the clouds, looking down upon the earthlings as they engaged in their daily life and love. The next section begins the instructional text and illustrations of ONNA DAI RAKU TAKARA BAKO, wherein we see a mother presenting her daughter with a lacquered tray containing two dildos, one white, the other black. Its time for the young lady to learn the pleasures of self stimulation & enjoyment. . *** The next shows a man and his lover sitting at the Kotatsu [table over a Hibachi-like warmer with quilt cover], while the girl looks at an erotic book, the man uses his toes to stimulate her clitoris. Next shows a father teaching his daughter calligraphy, while he makes love to a very ecstatic mother. Followed by a several views of couples fully engaged in love making. One shows lovers exchanging tongue kisses & making love while a maid voyeurs. Then a group of superb illustrations showing couples making love while engaged in daily chores, such as spinning thread, washing Kimono, weaving, embroidery, knotting silk cord, papermaking [this is illustrated in Hillier as #108, see notes below], dyeing thread and others. . *** Next shows a very unusual & highly imaginative illustration of a woman under a horse who penetrates her open vulva with huge penis that has a silk cord tied around it. Others show couples engaged in love-making: tea-leaf pickers, fishermen & fisher women, pleasure boat passengers, Shamisen players, and a host of others enjoying a passionate moment. . *** Following is a fascinating physiognomic illustration in the central part of the book, revealing a graphic display of superior feminine sexual markers. A nude woman is depicted showing her places of superior sexual value and locations of excitement. These are individually marked with a tremendous amount of black dots, with a descriptive paragraph of explanation. Jumping to the last page, it continues in this vein, but with focus strictly on the vulva: the various shapes and types, markers of the labia, clitoris and showing the various "types," that is, those with and without pubic hair and the value and comparisons. This section begins with a group of illustrations of erotic implements that will enhance the male organ: ointments, powders, silk threads to tie up the penis to keep it erect, "challises" or rings worn and held in place by erection, penis extenders and others that were known to bring joy and pleasure to women. See the William Lessa citation below for more details on the study of physiognomy. . *** Back to the center of the book, where it continues, with an unusual essay on homosexuality. This essay is on the thirty- two erotic styles of love-making and erotic behavior of men who cross dress and wear women's clothing, and hair styles, who are homosexuals or transvestites. There are 15 illustrations showing the type of young men or boys, who take on the feminine role and submit to being penetrated from the rear and ravaged by their lover men. Illustrations of their faces and physical attributes, reveal the nature of homosexuals and their physiognomy. Openly illustrated, showing the men engaged in love making, with good view of the sexual organs of both men and young boys. . *** The following section returns to women, with 6 pages showing women in Kimono and what they look like in the nude, with comments on the various "types" of faces, bodies and sexual and physiognomic markers. Followed by a section on the vocabulary, glossary of love words, expressions and love letters. Among the following illustrations is a very RARE view of a Nagasaki Dutchman and his Japanese courtesan or whore and her pleasures of the large foreign penis. In this section are also illustrations of various sex toys, penis extenders, rings, balls, lacquer penis tips & for the less than virile male, followed by several pages of sex education texts. . *** For more on physiognomy see William Lessa: CHINESE BODY DIVINATIONS: Its Forms, Affinities, and Functions. This outlines the physical body features that have special meanings in physiognomy, neomancy, metoposcopy et al. Again, the Japanese have used Chinese physiognomy for centuries as part of their medical pantheon to explain how physical features represent a systematic description of sexual prowess and attributes, as well as personality and health indicators. . *** THE ARTIST/AUTHOR TSUKIOKA SETTAI [1726-1786]: Settei was also known by his studio names as Masanobu & Rojinsai among others [1710-1786] was a famous Kamigata painting master [Kyoto-Osaka area artist & style], and was a pupil of the celebrated Sesshu school painter Keiho, and later followed the Kano style. He eventually created his own famous Ukiyo-e, painting style Tsukioka Settei School," which was one of the main branches of Kamigata Ukiyo-e and painting school. He produced over 30 superbly illustrated books during his tenure at the pinnacle of his career ca. [1753-71], including notable Haru-bon [erotic books] and "ranked among the best artists of the day", paraphrased from Lane below. . His pupils were his sons Sessai, Sekkei, Munenobu [Soushin], Kangetsu, Buzen and Gyokuzan. Settei used a combination of Moronobu and Sukenobu styles, with traces of aristocratic refinement...especially well known for graceful and elegant erotica, his paintings generally date after 1771 and are quite unlike those of his orthodox Ukiyo-e contemporaries..." See Roberts & British Museum below for more. . *** A PUN ON ANOTHER FAMOUS BOOK: This book title was pun, a parody based on the famous work by Kaibara Ekiken [1630-1714]: ONNA DAI GAKU TAKARA BAKO: A TREASURY BOX OF KNOWLEDGE FOR FEMALES, a serious Confucian moral treatise. Our title ONNA DAI RAKU TAKARA BEKI is essentially a play on words, to twist a serious study into a erotic rework of Ekiken's famous title, with one character and one sound different, replacing "BEKI" [study, learning] for "RAKU" ['FUN, pleasure, enjoyment, with a sexual connotation and pun]. . Settei felt that women should have proper access to equally valuable and "important sexual teachings" juxtaposition to Ekiken's "Confucian moral teachings" in order to have a rounded education in all of the "arts." See Hillier [below] for excellent follow-up text on this book, its dual-meaning title, signify cancer and teachings. . *** This is a very RARE copy of an obscure and famous early erotic treatise. The work is especially and profusely illustrated in a charming and elegant manner by an important artist & exponent of the early Ukiyo-e as an elegant and skilled painter of erotica. This title is seldom found on the market. See Roberts below for more about him. . *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Hillier: THE ART OF THE JAPANESE BOOK, vol. 1, pp.289-290 & plate 206; vol. 2. p.1118 index. Hillier also describes & illustrates other erotic titles by Settei on pages 284-296. * L. Roberts: DICTIONARY OF JAPANESE ARTISTS, p.144. * R. Lane: IMAGES FROM THE FLOATING WORLD, pp.320-321, under Settee. * KERLEN, H.: CATALOGUE OF PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE BOOKS & MAPS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS, not in this reference but he lists another title by Settei. * SHIBUI, Kiyoshi.: UKIYO-E NAISI: Old Documents Concerning Human Life Instincts and Emotions as Interpreted by Japanese Artists in the 18th and Earlier part of the 19th Centuries, Tokyo 1932 [This is a rare and famous Japanese compiled bibliography of Haru-bon [erotic Japanese woodblock printed books]. See volume 1, p.3 #15, illustration on p.10 of plates shows front covers & title page on bottom of that page. Shibui lists exact title but with an alternate reading of the title Kanji: ONNA DAI RAKU HOKAI. This is an entirely correct but second reading of the last two Kanji characters. 'Beki' is a more common reading today. * TSUKIOKA SETTAI: database/term_details.aspx?bioId=144328 * LESSA, William A.: CHINESE BODY DIVINATION: Its Forms, Affinities & Function. This outlines the physical body features that have special meanings in physiognomy, neomancy, metoposcopy et al. The Japanese have used Chinese physiognomy for centuries as part of their medical pantheon to explain how physical features represent a systematic description of sexual prowess and attributes, as well as being dependable personality and health indicators. * NOSCO, Peter. eds. et al.: VALUES, IDENTITY, AND EQUALITY IN EIGHTEENTH-AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAPAN. This is an excellent illustrated essay on Japanese erotic works and other 'social issues' of the periods. This work liberally discusses Tsukioka Settai, this work and illustrates examples under chapter heading: DISCUSSING THE SACRED AND SEXUAL, pp.215-220, figures 9.7 & 9.8. Co-editors/authors: James E. Ketelaar, Yasunori Kojima. * LANE, Richard.: IMAGES FROM THE FLOATING WORLD: THE JAPANESE PRINT,INCLUDING AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF UKIYO-E, see pp.320-321. * *** Color scans of this & most other items are posted to our website.

SUPPRESSING COMMUNIST-BANDITRY IN CHINA 镇压中国共匪-汤良礼 by COMMUNIST PARTY IN CHINA

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Title: SUPPRESSING COMMUNIST-BANDITRY IN CHINA 镇压中国共匪-汤良礼
Author: COMMUNIST PARTY IN CHINA
Seller: BATTLEDORE LTD (United States)
Description: SUPPRESSING COMMUNIST-BANDITRY IN CHINA 中国共产党的镇压-汤良礼 Shanghai: Published by China United Press, June 1934, this book belongs to China To-Day series Volume 1, introduced the Communist movement in China and the effect to the Republic government during the past years, illustrated with text and photos, large 8vo, [x]110pp., printed cloth covers, missing front free endpaper, light foxing to the bottom edge of some pages, else fine condition. 上海联合出版社1934年出版，本书为今日中国系列丛书的第一部，用文字和照片的形式介绍了共产党在过去一些时间的活动以及对民国政府产生的一些影响。18×25cm，110页，精装帆布硬质封皮，内页下边缘少许磨损，其他品相极好。

Naval Commander Who Prevented Filibustering Expedition against Mexico, and Then Captured Slave Ships and Freed over 1,350 Slaves by THOMAS A. DORNIN

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Title: Naval Commander Who Prevented Filibustering Expedition against Mexico, and Then Captured Slave Ships and Freed over 1,350 Slaves
Author: THOMAS A. DORNIN
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: THOMAS A. DORNIN. Manuscript Letter Signed, U.S.S. Portsmouth, Norfolk, Virginia, April 4, 1855, to Mid. John Walker, U.S.N. 1 p. Transcript "United States Ship Portsmouth Norfolk, Va., April 4th, 1855 Sir, Be assured that it affords me the highest pleasure, upon the termination of this cruise to inform you of the approbation I feel at your conduct official and personal during the period you have been under my command. You have in all my observations shown a strong desire to improve yourself in those qualifications essential to an officer, and your present competency in navigation, seamanship, gun practice &c is successful evidence of the benefit of application. Continue in the same course of personal and professional conduct and I prognosticate that I heart-ily desire, an elevated reputation in the service to which you are attached. Truly Your Friend, Tho. A. Dornin Commander To Mid. John J. Walker U.S.N." Historical Background Dornin prevented an invasion of Mexican territory by William Walker's expedition in 1851 and he freed 40 Americans who were chained and double ironed in the hold of a schooner in Mazatlan. Later, off the coast of Africa he captured two slave vessels with over 1,350 slaves onboard, and landed them safely at Liberia. Thomas Aloysius Dornin (ca. 1800-1874), born in Ireland, was appointed as a lieutenant in the United States navy in 1825. He spent several years in the Pacific aboard a sloop-of-war before eventually being appointed to the command of a store ship on the fitting out of the South Sea exploring expedition. While in command of the Shark, in the Pacific, he was commissioned commander (1841) and given charge of the sloop Dale, which he brought home from a cruise in 1843. In 1851 he sailed in command of the Portsmouth, and during his cruise he was ordered to charter one of the Panama steamers and endeavor to prevent the invasion of Mexican territory by William Walker's expedition. In the execution of this design he was completely successful. After discharging his steamer he visited Mazatlan, where he found forty American citizens, who had been peaceably doing business in Guaymas, closely packed in the hold of a schooner, doubly ironed, and chained to the bottom of the vessel. Captain Dornin at once demanded of the governor their immediate release, and after considerable delay that official finally complied. Dornin then sailed for Acapulco, where he learned that a Mexican war vessel had declared a blockade and driven off U. S. mail steamers. He pursued and overhauled the vessel, and notified her commander that such proceedings were in violation of a special treaty between the United States and Mexico. The Mexicans, after making a written protest, abandoned the blockade. After being commissioned as captain (1855), and while in command of the San Jacinto, Dornin captured two slave vessels on the coast of Africa with over 1,350 slaves on board, and landed them safely in Liberia [the brigantine Storm King, of New York, August 21, 1860; and the brig Bonita, October 10, 1860]. During the civil war he was promoted to the rank of commodore on the retired list (16 July 1862), and at its close was placed in charge of the fifth lighthouse district.

Bring the war home!: a novel about resistance to the Vietnam War and racism in the U.S. Marines by Willdorf, Barry S.

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Title: Bring the war home!: a novel about resistance to the Vietnam War and racism in the U.S. Marines
Author: Willdorf, Barry S.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: San Francisco: A Gauche Press, 2001. Paperback. iii+275p., 5.5x8.5 inches, preface, glossary, signed and inscribed by Willdorf "To Barbara Dane, Who gave of herself when our boys needed our support to resist an unjust war. Thank you so much for being their, Barry," very good condition first edition in original pictorial wraps. Set in Camp Pendleton near the California coastline, and in courtrooms. Author Willdorf "is a trial lawyer in San Francisco. In 1970 and 1971 he worked for a civil rights organization defending Marines at Camp Pendleton. From 1970 until the end of the Vietnam War, he represented more than 100 G.I.s from every branch of the Armed Services.

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