Heading: (1872 – First book about Japanese in America)
Author: Charles Lanman, editor; and Jugoi Arinori Mori
Title: The Japanese in America
Place Published: New York
Publisher:University Publishing Company
Date Published: 1872
Description:

First Edition. Pictorial cloth binding. 352pp. Illustrated, lacking the frontis., but with the other two photographic plates present.

Six years after the Civil War, there were few Japanese in America - only the 50 officials of the Japanese Legation in Washington and a select group of Japanese students studying at American schools and colleges.

This book, edited by the American secretary to the Legation - better known as author of the 1856 travel classic, "Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British America" - discusses the experience of both diplomats and students and concludes with an important De Tocqueville-like essay, a Japanese view of "Life and Resources in America", written by Mori, the young, educated ex-Samurai who had been the first Japanese envoy to the United States. An important book of both Americana and Asian-Americana which has been unfairly forgotten.

Signature slightly sprung, some foxing.