Ogawa, K. (Kazumasa)
Imperial University of Tokyo - Tokyo Tei-koku Daigaku, Tokyo, K. Ogawa, Meiji 33 (1900), large 4to (10 5/8 x 15 in - 27 x 38 cm), illustrated cloth over cardboard covers with beveled edges, gilt speckled inside covers and adjacent free pages, two silk ties, spine covered, gilt edges, English and Japanese text, title page, preface, 59 collotype plates (including a four panel fold-out plate), tissue guards on first 8 plates only, a total of 61 leaves all printed on one side only. The title on the front cover is in English only and is recessed and printed on a different fabric than used on the boards. Per the colophon, the book was printed by Ogawa Shashin Seihanjo and published by Ogawa Kazumasa. The book contains a colophon which gives a date of publication of Meiji 33 (1900).
The preface is by K. Ogawa and dated March, 1900, Tokyo. In the preface, Ogawa states that the book was "...sent to the International Exhibition at Paris."
Each plate contains a single image (except for the first 8 plates and the observatory plate) and has a descriptive caption below the image. The majority of the plates are black and white but some appear to be tinted green or perhaps printed in green and white. The plates with the green color tend to be images where there is a significant amount of foliage. The plates are not numbered in the book and there is no plate listing. The number of plates in this book (59) has been confirmed complete as per the same book in library holdings.
The first 8 plates present numerous cameo portraits of high officials and professors. Each of these plates is preceded by a tissue guard with the name and position of the person pictured. The tissue guard captions are positioned directly over the portrait of the person and you can see the image of the individual through the tissue guard. The first plate shows the then current (1900) President, D. Kikuchi and four Ex-Presidents (H. Watanabe, H. Hato, A. Hamao and M. Toyama).
The centerpiece illustration in this book is a four panel fold-out panorama of the University. The panorama is composed of two facing pages, each with a fold-out panel. When the book is opened to these facing plates and the right and left fold-outs are opened you have the full four panel spread which depicts the following areas of the University (from left to right): 1) College of Engineering, 2) Institutes of Zoology and Geology, College of Sciences, 3) Front view of the Colleges of Law and Literature and 4) Library. The fold-out portions are attached at the back to the anchor plates by linen type tape. Fully opened the panorama measures 26.5 x 56 cm.
Wenckstern records this book in Volume II (1894-1906) in these terms:
University, Imperial, in Tokyo (yen 7.50). (Wenckstern, Volume II, page 10).
A two part/volume set with the same title was published by Ogawa in 1904. That set contains a total of 105 plates.
For information on Kazumasa Ogawa and his books, click here.
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Title Page
Preface
All 59 Plates in This Book
Titles are those Printed with the Plate
Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits - names on the tissue guard
Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits - names on the tissue guard
Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits - names on the tissue guard
Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits - names on the tissue guard
Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits - names on the tissue guard
Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits - names on the tissue guard
Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits - names on the tissue guard
Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits - names on the tissue guard
Akamon (Red Gate of the University)
College of Engineering - Institute of Geology, College of Sciences -
Front view of the College of Law and Literature - Library (panorama)
Four Panel Panoramic View of University - Fully Opened Measures 26.5 x 56 cm.
Students Reading Room of the Library
Dormitories
Recreation-Ground
Road to the Recreation-Ground
Recreation-Ground
Central Garden of the University
Foreign Professor's Residence
College of Law and Literature
College of Law and Literature
College of Law and Literature
Lecture Room of the College of Law
College of Medicine
Laboratory of Anatomy
Lecture Room of Anatomy
Museum of Pathology
First Hospital
First Hospital
College of Engineering
College of Engineering
Drawing Room of Architecture
Museum of Naval Architecture
Drawing Room of Naval Architecture
Museum of Mechanical Engineering
Workshop of the College of Engineering
Museum of Mining and Metallurgy
Laboratory of Applied Chemistry
Museum of Applied Chemistry
College of Sciences
Laboratory of Zoology
Museum of Zoology
Laboratory of Geology
Museum of Geology
Tokyo Astronomical Observatory
Front view of the Botanic Garden
Botanic Garden
Greenhouse of the Botanic Garden
Pleasure Garden in the Botanic Garden
Pleasure Garden in the Botanic Garden
Marine Biological Station in Misaki
Marine Biological Station in Misaki
Dormitory of the Marine Biological Station in Misaki
College of Agriculture
Laboratory of Agricultural Chemistry
Institute of Agricultural Chemistry
Museum of Veterinary Medicine
Glass-house of the College of Agriculture
Specimens of the forest trees in ground of the Agricultural College
Buildings for Silkworm Culture
Pasture of the College of Agriculture
Colophon

Printed: Meiji 33(1900).4.15
Published: Meiji 33(1900).4.19
Printer: Ogawa Shashin Seihanjo
Publisher: Ogawa Kazumasa
Inside Covers and Front and Back Free Pages
Close-up of Collotype Plate (Cameo Portraits - Plates 1-8)
Close-up of Collotype Plate (Black and White)
Close-up of Collotype Plate (Green Tint)
Listing of Plates..
- Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits with names on the tissue guard
- Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits with names on the tissue guard
- Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits with names on the tissue guard
- Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits with names on the tissue guard
- Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits with names on the tissue guard
- Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits with names on the tissue guard
- Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits with names on the tissue guard
- Tissue guarded plate of cameo portraits with names on the tissue guard
- Akamon (Red Gate of the University)
- College of Engineering - Institute of Geology, College of Sciences
- Front view of the College of Law and Literature - Library (panorama)
- Students Reading Room of the Library
- Dormitories
- Recreation-Ground
- Road to the Recreation-Ground
- Recreation-Ground
- Central Garden of the University
- Foreign Professor's Residence
- College of Law and Literature
- College of Law and Literature
- College of Law and Literature
- College of Law and Literature
- College of Medicine
- Laboratory of Anatomy
- Lecture Room of Anatomy
- Museum of Pathology
- First Hospital
- First Hospital
- College of Engineering
- College of Engineering
- Drawing Room of Architecture
- Museum of Naval Architecture
- Drawing Room of Naval Architecture
- Museum of Mechanical Engineering
- Workshop of the College of Engineering
- Museum of Mining and Metallurgy
- Laboratory of Applied Chemistry
- Museum of Applied Chemistry
- College of Sciences
- Laboratory of Zoology
- Museum of Zoology
- Laboratory of Geology
- Museum of Geology
- Tokyo Astronomical Observatory
- Front view of the Botanic Garden
- Botanic Garden
- Greenhouse of the Botanic Garden
- Pleasure Garden in the Botanic Garden
- Pleasure Garden in the Botanic Garden
- Marine Biological Station in Misaki
- Marine Biological Station in Misaki
- Dormitory of the Marine Biological Station in Misaki
- College of Agriculture
- Laboratory of Agricultural Chemistry
- Institute of Agricultural Chemistry
- Museum of Veterinary Medicine
- Glass-house of the College of Agriculture
- Specimens of the forest trees in ground of the Agricultural College
- Buildings for Silkworm Culture
- Pasture of the College of Agriculture
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