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Imperial Japanese Government Railways

An Official Guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-Continental Connections between

Europe and Asia. Vol. 2. South-Westen Japan. Prepared by the Imperial

Japanese Government Railways. Tokyo, 1914. 18mo. (11.5 x 16 cm),

brown cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, covers from Kagoshima to Kyoto

with sections on Taiwan and Okinawa, 15 maps/plans, most foldout, 105

text illustrations (black and white half-tone photographs), five full page black

and white collotype plates, one color woodcut plate (frontispiece) by the

Shimbi Shoin, i-cciv + 370 pp. Introductory remarks on Japan covering

arrival, communications, mail, geographical features, history, dress, food,

conveyances, art, religion industries, wrestling, hunting, music and dance, tea

ceremony, literature and landscape gardening. This section covers 205 pages

(i-cciv). Next the book deals with Shimonoseki and Moji, Kagoshima, the

Ryukyu Islands, Nagasaki, Shikoku, Kobe, the Inland Sea, Osaka, Kyoto,

Nara and Taiwan. This section covers 370 pages (1-370). Counting both

sections, the book has 575 pp. The colophon states "Printed at the Tokyo

Tsukiji Type Foundry." The map at page 7 is the "Former Concession at

Kobe" which relates back to district occupied by foreigners during the treaty

	port days.

日本鉄道院

東アジア公式ガイド　第2巻　南西日本

東京築地活版製造所　大正3年6月25日印刷　7月1日発行 クロス装

	¥29,500

日本鉄道院刊行の「東アジア公式ガイド」（全4巻）のうちの第2巻、南西日本。カ

ラー口絵、15の地図（多くが折込）、105の本文中図版　全５７５頁　（別掲の第３

	巻　「北東日本」も参照ください。なお、第１巻は満州、朝鮮、第４巻は中国）。