joseph e de becker (8 Ergebnisse)

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First edition. Small 4to. Original flexible printed wrappers, cracks to spine. Overall still a very good copy. 22, 16pp. Yokohama, Z P Maruya, no date [but ca.  A very frank and knowledgeable assessment of prostitution in Japan at the end of the 19th century.   The author describes the different classes of women from 'Jigoku' to 'Shogi' and 'Geisha', as well as the rules, regulations and proscriptions and the changes in legislation from the 18th to the 19th century. This is followed by a translation of a contract against the 'loan' of ¥400 for the sale of a girl into a brothel as well a the 40 articles and other laws governing the running of a brothel. "The one redeeming trait of the Japanese courtesan is that she never appears to fall to the low and vicious level of the Western prostitute, and her position is such that she is likened by an Eastern allegorical expression to 'The Lotus in the mud' - in the mire truly, but not besmirched by it and she is cheered by the old hypocrites around her." (p. 18).   The second part of the booklet quotes extensively other Western observers on the subject incl. Mitford, Rein, Norman, and even Engelbert Kaempfer. This title was published between 1885 and 1904 in various configurations. Our copy is stamped on the front cover "Z. P. Maruya, Yokohama", the same company who published The Nightless City by Joseph de Becker in 1899. It also includes the text of an 'Agreement' which is largely identical with the one mentioned above and may support the assumption that it was written by him. Uncommon in the trade. .

Large 8vo. Pp. xvi, 386, (1). With two folding maps of old and new Yoshiwara, 19 colour plates and 25 black and white fullpage plates. Numerous illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, stamped in gilt and black, spine faded. Fourth revised edition of this informative work about the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo. Not in Cordier. Nipponalia 1067. Wenckstern ii, 341.

Pp. (vi), iv, (2), 441, (3), xix, (3). With twenty plates including nine coloured, of which seven folding beautiful chromolithographs, and many textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, tooled in black and gilt, spine slightly faded, recased. Bookplate. Occasionally some light staining. First edition of this informative work about the Yoshiwara ("pleasure") district of Edo (Tokyo). The author was an English lawyer who came to Japan in 1887. He assumed Japanese nationality and after a few years set up legal practices in Yokohama and Kobe. This controversial and comprehensive work describes the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo and its organisation, manners, ceremonies as well as its medical aspects and legal constraints. Not in Cordier. Nipponalia (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies) 1067. Wenckstern ii, 341.