The Origin of Japan and the Japanese People [title in Japanese]. By Oyabe Zenichiro.

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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(JAPAN).

The Origin of Japan and the Japanese People [title in Japanese]. By Oyabe Zenichiro.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Text in Japanese. Photographic and text illustrations. Inscribed by a Jewish GI based in Okinawa (19th April, 1945) to his Rabbi. pp. (2), 16, 2, (1), 393, (2). Ex-library. Original boards, Japanese and Hebrew tooled in gilt on upper cover and spine, rubbed. 4to.

Tokyo: 1929

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $400

Oyabe Zenichiro (1867-1941) proposed that the origin of the Japanese people stemmed from the Jews.