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A partial run of one of Japan's first modern newspapers. This paper "stretched the boundaries of the nascent Japanese news media, including not just news and opinion, but also satire and political cartoons" (Munson, p. 37). Issue 20 reports on a telegram sent back by Hawai'i's first Japanese immigrants, illustrated with an early Japanese map of the islands. After Van Reed (1835-1873) arrived in Japan he worked for the US consulate in Kanagawa, then as a trader for Augustine Heard & Co. During this time he founded and co-edited Moshiogusa, which ran for 3 years in 42 issues. It followed Joseph Heco's Kaigai Shimbun and Reverend Buckworth M. Bailey's Bankoku Shinbunshi, both of which had ceased circulation. This collection includes Issue 20 (27 August 1868), which contains a transcribed telegram from Makino Tomisaburo, the leader of the 150 "Gannenmono" Japanese immigrants that Van Reed had sent to Hawai'i in that year. He wrote about the weather and flora, job opportunities in sugar production, and the other inhabitants. "Day and night there are no drunks or rowdy people; their temperament is extremely peaceful and happy" (ff. 4r-4v). This is followed with a map of Hawai'i, the earliest known Japanese map to focus on the islands. It was preceded only by world maps that included the "Sandwich Islands", such as Takahashi Kageyasu's Shintei bankoku zenzu (1810) and Takai Ranzan's Bankoku taigai no zu in Edo daisetsuyo kaidaigura (1863). Politically, the newspaper directed scorn against both the former Tokugawa regime, the current Meiji government, and the Western powers for their involvement in the Boshin War. The cartoon in Issue 16 shows a Western arms dealer laden with weapons, tricking the Japanese into taking them on credit, addicting the country to war, and demanding repayment through island concessions. Todd S. Munson, The Periodical Press in Treaty-Port Japan, 2012. 15 issues, small octavo. Woodblock illustration in issue 16, woodblock map in issue 20; text in Japanese, original red price stamps on issues 38 and 42, original red censorship seals on issues 34-37. Original yellow printed wrappers, tied through four holes with later green thread. Housed in grey archival box. 20th century manuscript shelf label on rear inner wrapper of issue 10. Some bindings loose but holding, light stains in margins, small patches of wormholing especially on issues 35 and 38: a very good collection.…