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Handscroll on mica-sprinkled paper, entitled at beginning of text “Nikkosan gohan haiken no oboe gaki” [“Nikko Mountain Forced Rice Eating Ceremony, Revealed”] by GOHAN SHIKI (Ceremony of Forced Rice Eating)

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Title: Handscroll on mica-sprinkled paper, entitled at beginning of text “Nikkosan gohan haiken no oboe gaki” [“Nikko Mountain Forced Rice Eating Ceremony, Revealed”]
Author: GOHAN SHIKI (Ceremony of Forced Rice Eating)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Scroll on paper (260 x 2440 mm.), carefully backed, new silk front endpapers, wooden core roller. [Nikko?]: with date “20 April 1863” at beginning. During the Edo period, the Nikko Gohan Shiki ceremony was held frequently at the Rinnoji temple in Nikko. The ceremony was part of Nikko’s ancient mountain Buddhism. Paying visitors entered the Sanbutsu-do Hall to witness the ritual of compulsory rice eating. A procession of monks, led by a yamabushi (mountain priest) blowing a trumpet shell, entered the hall. The monks dispensed large bowls to six participants, each containing 5.4 liters of cooked rice, representing 75 bowlfuls (the number “75” in Buddhism represents all creation). Although all the participants were urged to eat every grain, the rice was actually not eaten. It was believed that those who participated in or witnessed the ceremony would have good family fortune and a happy life. Our scroll contains five scenes, all painted with fine coloring. We learn at the beginning that the detailed explanatory text was written by Utsunomiya fiefdom samurai, Eizo Kawai. The first scene depicts three samurai all from the fiefdom of Utsunomiya, who were participating in the ceremony. The first is Shichiuemon Tsunekawa, a house elder representing the fiefdom lord, Toda Echizen no kami Tadayuki. The others were Kansuke Suganuma and Tozo Oda. These three samurai are receiving the large bowls, each heaped with a mountain of rice, from three priests. One of the samurai is bowing deeply while receiving the bowl of rice. The annotations above the image describe Rinnoji temple, the priests’ unusual garb, and the bowls, which are made of brass. The second scene depicts the three priests, one of whom is remonstrating one of the samurai for not bowing low enough to show proper respect. The priests are carrying thick wooden poles, which could used to demand sufficient respect from the samurai. Scene three is a continuation. Now the priests are carrying bowls of local delicacies of daikon radishes and chili peppers, and again, one of these priests is demanding that the samurai show proper respect. The priest carries a piece of tree bark and is waving in a threatening way. The fourth scene shows the priests putting rope crowns on the heads of the samurai as a symbol that the ceremony was completed. Finally, the last scene shows the three priests, carrying a spoon, a shovel, a smoking pipe, and other utensils, all greatly oversized, threatening the samurai and marking the end of the ceremony. Fine copy, preserved in a modern wooden box.

Where the Blue Begins (Signed limited edition) by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Christopher Morley

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Title: Where the Blue Begins (Signed limited edition)
Author: Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Christopher Morley
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London & New York: William Heinemann / Doubleday, 1925. First thus. Near Fine. Edition deluxe, number 30 of 175 numbered and signed by Arthur Rackham. A Near Fine copy. Quarto (11 x 7 3/4 in; 281 x 200 mm.). x, [2,], 227, [1, blank] pp. With four color-plates including frontispiece, and sixteen line drawings. Quarter black buckram over cream paper boards. Spine tooled in gilt., top edge gilt. Partially unopened. Bookplate on front pastedown. Where the Blue Begins is a delightful cross between a satire on polite society and a fable about finding meaning in life. American author, Christopher Morley uses anthropomorphized dogs to tell his thought-provoking tale about a bachelor dog named Gissing, who leaves his life in the suburban Canine Estates and sets out on an existential quest. The story appeared two years after Morley's collection of humorous essays, Pipefuls. What breed of dog was Gissing? Read the story and find out... Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell, p. 60. Riall, p.154. Near Fine.

LIVES OF THE HUNTED by Seton-Thompson, Ernest

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Title: LIVES OF THE HUNTED
Author: Seton-Thompson, Ernest
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine -
Description: NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine -. First edition, olive-green cloth , decorations and titles in green, brown and gilt. Spine moderately browned as is often seen with this tile. Square, solid binding. Internals fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.

[MILITARY] HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WAR HOW POLITICS, PROFITS & PROPAGANDA SHAPED WORLD WAR II MOVIES by Clayton R. Koppes | Gary W. Gallagher | Gregory D. Black

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Title: [MILITARY] HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WAR HOW POLITICS, PROFITS & PROPAGANDA SHAPED WORLD WAR II MOVIES
Author: Clayton R. Koppes | Gary W. Gallagher | Gregory D. Black
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine binding
Description: New York: The Free Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Large 8vo; in the publisher’s blue-grey binding; with titling on the spine in gilt; x, 374 pages including the Index; in a clipped jacket.~~This book was purchased by us directly from Gary W. Gallagher’s personal library with a signed card laid in attesting to this. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.

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