Author: NISHIMURA, Shinji.
Title: The Manashi-Katama or Meshless Basket.
Description: Tokyo, Soc. of Naval Architects 1928. Large octavo printed boards; [6],60pp, 7 plates, illustrations through the text. Stamps of two institutions (the Dept of Naval Architecture at King's College and a university) but a good enough copy. ¶ A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan Vol V part IV sec I. A fascinating series (has anyone seen them all?), this being the beginning of the series on skin-boats. It ranges from Japanese myths regarding basket boats to modern basket boats in French Indo-China.

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