of Washington, DC, travelled aboard USS Chaumont to Guam, China, Philippines, Japan, then on the USS Arabic to England and France
Travel diary along with itinerary, charted courses, pictures, and mementos kept by Beatrice Livingstone, wife of Lieutenant John Livingstone. Ships include the USS Chaumont, SS President Madison, SS President Jackson, and SS Malolo. Ephemera includes newspapers, tickets, maps, telegrams, cablegrams, and pamphlets from the Panama Canal Zone, the Pacific coast of the United States, Manila, Shanghai, Peking, Kyoto, and Tokyo.
Travel diaries (Box 2, Folder 6; Box 2, Folder 11) and photos (Box 3, Folders 12-13) of John Boyd Bentley, Bishop of Alaska and Director of Overseas Missions for the Protestant Episcopal Church, and wife Elvira C. Bentley, on trips to Southeast and East Asia, including Japan and the Philippines, 1948-1959
Includes travel diaries from 1948 (Guam, Philippines, Japan, Korea, Okinawa, and China, typed), 1955 (England, Austria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Philippines, Hong Kong, and Japan, typed), and 1961 (Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, India, Israel, Greece, Hungary, and Austria, typed)
Includes a diary, photographs, and financial information related to a trip through China, Japan, and Hong Kong in the fall of 1984
Letters, written aboard a ship in Japanese waters, from R. J. Hackley to his mother and brother, 1873-1874 (Box 1, Folder 24)
Photocopy of diary, 1899-1911, of Anthony Morris Leafdale, which concerns his service in the U. S. Army Signal Corps (including travel from Fort Walla Walla, Washington via San Francisco to Hawaii, the Philippines and Japan and return to United States), difficulties in finding employment, work in Denver, Colorado, and marriage and life on a farm in Nebraska. Includes poetry.
Includes letters of U.S. Navy officer William W. Galt from Yokohama, Nagasaki and Kobe, Japan, 1903 (Box 7, Folder 3)
October 3, 1945 letter from Woodrow L. Browne from Tokyo Bay, Japan to his sister, describing his experiences in Japan about 30 days after Japan's formal surrender (Small Collections Box 11, Folder 3)
Diary kept by the wife of a U.S. military officer stationed in Tokyo and later in a smaller city. The preprinted diary was designed for use by English speakers in Japan and explains holidays and associated traditions at the beginning of each month.
The Robert M. Gates papers primarily cover his professional life, from his work with the Central Intelligence Agency, to his presidency at Texas A&M University, to his retirement as Secretary of Defense. Selected folders include information about official trips to Japan while working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Council (NSC), and Department of Defense.
Itinerary and diary notes of trip in Japan by an American missionary to China, 1872 (Box 3, Folder 5)
Includes letters from Louisa "Loutie" Barton Myers Lloyd to her parents in Norfolk, Virginia, 1915-1916. The letters concern her life in Kyoto, Japan as the wife of an Episcopal missionary. Also includes letters between her husband James Hubard Lloyd and W. E. Rollings concerning Japanese students studying in America and a letter written by a Japanese student studying English in Japan, 1921 (Box 8, Folder 14)
Includes two long letters written by Lewis, a missionary in Sendai, Japan, about his mission work
Saigoku Pilgrimage Scroll, circa 1880s. (Acc. 2012.267) Scroll depicting the image of each Kannon Bodhisattva or Bosatsu located at the 33 temples a pilgrim must visit to complete the Saigoku pilgrimage in the Kansai region of Western Japan. (Box 12)
Kamakura Daibutsu Broadside and Receipt, 1888 or 1889. Illustrated broadside advertising subscriptions for rebuilding the Kotoku-In Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, best known for its 13th-century Daibutsu (Great Buddha statue). Also includes a receipt from the Director of Kotoku-In for a donation for rebuilding the temple. (Box 4)
Hōryūji (Ikaruga-chō, Nara-ken, Japan)
Buddhist art -- Japan -- Ikaruga-chō (Nara-ken)
Framed prints, portfolio collection, and loose woodblock prints featuring various Japanese artists from the 19th Century. Notably, Hiroshige I. (1797-1858), Kunimaru (1794-1829), and Yoshitishi (1839-1892)
The set includes stereoview images from six continents, excluding Antarctica. The scenes capture diverse people, monuments, and landscapes. Each stereoview has a description of the scene located on the back, which are often ethnocentric towards non-western cultures.
Images of Japan, such as a street scene in Yokohama or silk production techniques, are located in Box 5.
Photographs of Buddhist Statues on Mount Koya, 1930. (Acc. 2012.266) Includes two photographs of Buddhist statutes, including a henro (Japanese pilgrim) on Mount Koya, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. (Box 11)
Photograph album of a trip to Japan consisting of 37 photographs. Many of them are labeled with such places as Namba, Sumiyuski Shrine, and Ohama Park. There are also photographs of rail cars, landscapes, monks, Japanese competing in athletic events, and beach scenes.
181 black and white photographs from a trip to Japan in 1914. Potter traveled to Japan with a group of American friends. They visited Kyoto, Tokyo, Yokohama, Miyajima, Miyanoshita. Each photograph contains a caption and the album portrays varied landscape and architectural scenes such as lakes, valleys, and trees as well as temples, pagodas, fountains, and bridges. The album also features photographs of Potter and her travel companions as well as Japanese locals.
Scrapbook and loose photographs compiled by Lieutenant Commander Paul F. Reilly concerning the occupation of Okinawa by the U.S. Navy immediately following World War II. It contains over 250 black and white photographs of naval officers, the naval base, locals (some Japanese, some likely indigenous), ceremonies, locals working, and countryside, as well as ceremony brochures, a roster of American military in the region, currency, illustrations, and memos concerning the military's role in the region.
46 black and white photographs and 7 postcards compiled by Stella Graves, a recent graduate of Oberlin College who moved to Japan to teach at the Kobe College. Photographs include images of the college, surrounding area, American teachers, and pictures of students and area residents.
Call Number: Rare Books AE35.2 .D338 1864
Publication Date: Bunkyū 4 [1864]
Encyclopedia—maps, history, clothing, many illustrations
Call Number: Rare Books PL676 .N27 1829
Publication Date: Bunsei 12 [1829]
Encyclopedia—these volumes deal with astronomy, geography, dwellings, tools, and furniture
Vol. 1: PT.1-3
Vol. 2: PT. 10-11
Call Number: Rare Books DS833 .N56 1852
Publication Date: Kaei 5 [1852]
Relations between China and Japan
3 volumes
Call Number: Rare Book DS856 .S35 1883
Publication Date: Meiji 16 [1883]
Clans, dictionaries
Available online through the HathiTrust
Call Number: Rare Book DS857 .H38 1885
Publication Date: Meiji 18 [1885]
Clans, dictionaries
Special Collections has Vols. 2-5
Call Number: Rare Book DS894.59 .T632 T55 1796
Publication Date: Tenmei 6 [1786]
Within Japan
Tōkaidō (Japan) -- Description and travel
Nakasendō (Japan) -- Description and travel
Call Number: Rare Book G115 .Y63 1870
Publication Date: 1870?
Geography -- Textbooks
Asia -- Geography
Asia -- Description and travel
Special Collections has Vol. 2
Call Number: Rare Books G115 .Y63 1874
Publication Date: 1874
Geography -- Textbooks
Middle East -- Geography
Middle East -- Description and travel
Southeast Asia -- Geography
Southeast Asia -- Description and travel
Call Number: Rare Books G115 .Y63 1871
Publication Date: 1871?
Europe -- Geography
Europe -- Description and travel
Great Britain -- Description and travel
Call Number: Rare Books HT650 .O557
Publication Date: Tenpō 10 [1839]
Edojō [Edo Castle] (Tokyo, Japan)
Samurai -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Call Number: Rare Books NA3584 .A1 T36 1851
Publication Date: Date Kaei 4 [1851]
Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Japan
Architecture -- Japan -- History -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Architectural models -- Japan
Vol. 4: Sukiya no bu -- maki
Woodblock Map (Japan), 1826. (Acc. 2012.151) (Box 11)
Map of Japan, circa 1860s. (Acc. 2010.739) Includes roads, sea routes, and a fare chart for transportation by horse. (Box 11)
Map of Kyoto, Japan, 1811. (Acc. 2011.633) Includes drawings of the public square and pagodas around the city, waterways that surround the city, and a chart on the back of the map. (Box 11)
Map of Tokyo, 1886. (Acc. 2011.637) Includes drawings of buildings around Tokyo, roads, and outlines of residential neighborhoods. (Box 11)
[Map of] Japan (omitting Yezo) Corrected to 1 March 1892, 1923. From Japan As We Saw It, by Robert S. Gardiner. Includes insets of Tokyo, Yokohama, Hiogo [Hyogo] and Kobe, Osaka, and Kyoto (Undersize Maps, Box 1)
Map of Japan, Manchoukuo and Adjoining Territories, 1936. From Japan-Manchoukuo Year Book Co. (Mapcases, Folder 3)
Japan and Adjacent Regions of Asia and the Pacific Ocean, 1944. From National Geographic Society. Includes inset of industrial centers of Japan (Mapcases, Folder 3)
[Map of] The Coast of China and of the Japan Islands including the Mariana Islands and a part of the Philippines, 1855. From National Geographic Society; Compiled by order of Commodore M. C. Perry; Cartographers, W. L. Maury and S. Bent. (Mapcases, Folder 3)