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First edition of this early English-Japanese phrasebook, the first published by an American in Japan. Van Reed was a merchant and was made the Kingdom of Hawai'i's first consul to Japan in 1866. We have traced six institutional copies, of which only two are outside Japan. This phrasebook opens with the katakana and hiragana syllabaries and basic numerals, before moving on to crucial conversational sentences for a merchant, such as "We always sell for cash", "If you will sell cheap I will buy", "Have the goods sent down early to the jetty", and "You have been very reckless in trading". There is also a conversation played out in individual sentences where Van Reed recommends where to find a Japanese language teacher to an imaginary Western merchant. Van Reed (1835-1873) became interested in Japan after meeting Joseph Heco and began working at the consulate in Kanagawa in 1859. He also worked as a trader for Augustine Heard & Co, and is most famous for sending the first Japanese immigrants, the Gannenmono, to Hawai'i without the Meiji government's permission. Takahashi Tatsuo, "Yokohama no meibutsu otoko Van Riido", in Eigo jishi, 1976. Small octavo. Text in Japanese and English. Original brown patterned wrappers, renewed white thread fukuro-toji binding, printed title label on front wrapper. Housed in a brown cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers a little creased, light rubbing on rear wrapper, contents bright with light foxing on f. 34: a very good copy.…

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.…

Original landscape painting of Hakone, inscribed and dated "Hakone Mountain, Japan 1867" on the rear stretcher by Eugene Miller Van Reed, the Dutch-American merchant and diplomat active in Yokohama. Van Reed arrived in Japan in 1859, shortly after the opening of Yokohama to foreign trade, and worked at the American Consulate at Kanagawa before entering the service of Augustine Heard & Co. Murphy characteries his career in Japan as one of "short-term profit, speculation and adventurism", a pattern reflected in his negotiations with Satsuma over ships, arms, and commercial arrangements, and in the emigration scheme that led to the first organized movement of Japanese labourers to Hawai'i in 1868. His prominence in Yokohama was marked by Utagawa Sadahide's 1861 woodblock portrait of him on horseback. The inscription suggests that Van Reed owned the painting; the artist remains unidentified, and may be Van Reed himself. Hakone was a natural inland subject for a Yokohama resident, lying within reach of the treaty-port community and positioned on the historic T kaid road between Edo and Kyoto. It was also the site of the Hakone Barrier, a Tokugawa security checkpoint controlling movement along the highway. Rutherford Alcock described Hakone scenery in The Capital of the Tycoon in 1863, while Felice Beato photographed the region in the later 1860s. Dated 1867, this view belongs to the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate, when Van Reed was moving between diplomacy, private trade, and the Japan-Hawai'i labour scheme. Kevin C. Murphy, The American Merchant Experience in Nineteenth-Century Japan, 2004. Rutherford Alcock, The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan, 1863, vol. 1. Oil on canvas. Canvas size 310 x 235 mm. Contemporary gilt wooden frame (framed size 365 x 286 mm), canvas on wooden stretchers, nail and hanging cord. Minor loss of paint to right hand side, frame showing signs of age: a very good survival.…

Second edition, published a year after the rare first edition, of this early English-Japanese phrasebook, the first published by an American in Japan. Van Reed was a merchant and the Kingdom of Hawai'i's first consul to Japan. WorldCat records one institutional copy outside Japan. This phrasebook opens with the katakana and hiragana syllabaries and basic numerals, before moving on to crucial conversational sentences for a merchant, such as "We always sell for cash", "If you will sell cheap I will buy", "Have the goods sent down early to the jetty", and "You have been very reckless in trading". Eugene Van Reed (1835-1873) became interested in Japan after meeting Joseph Heco and began working at the consulate in Kanagawa in 1859. He also worked as a trader for Augustine Heard & Co., importing and exporting goods. He is most famous for sending the first Japanese immigrants, the Gannenmono, to Hawai'i without the Meiji government's permission. He nevertheless was written about positively in Japanese sources, such as in the 1863 work Chinji Yokohama banashi where he was described as "A man of great knowledge and connoisseurship, who interacts with others using Japanese gestures and facial expressions" (Takahashi, p. 130). The first edition was issued under the title Shoyo kaiwa in 1861 and is only held by six institutions. Takahashi Tatsuo, "Yokohama no meibutsu otoko Van Riido", in Eigo jishi, 1976. Small octavo. Text in Japanese and English. Original black wrappers, renewed white thread fukuro-toji binding, printed title label on front wrapper. Wrappers a little creased and rubbed, edges slightly nicked, contents bright: a very good copy.…