Nara, Japan: Meishinsha, 1895. title page cont'd: Prepared specially for the eleven hundredth anniversary of the founding of Kyoto and the Fourth National Industrial Exhibition by the City Council of Kyoto with three maps and sixty-nine engravings. [6], 220, [12], 105, [5] p.: many leaves of single-leaf black-and-white plates, 1 double-leaf black-and-white plate, 7 double-leaf color plates (signed Sculptore Tsukamoto), 2 folded maps; 16 cm. (6¼ inches). Light grey cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and black and grey color illustrations. Front fixed endpaper bears a message from the printing office. Includes ads for businesses in Kyoto, some printed in color and some with illustrations including hotel ads with 7 full-page illustrations. First edition. Compiled by M. Ichihara at the request of the city council of Kyoto to celebrate Kyoto's 1100th anniversary. Six of the double-leaf color plates are striking color wood block prints of people weaving silk, embroidering and dying fabric, and making ceramics, bronzeware, and lacquerware. Lacking map to go in rear pocket; otherwise in Very Good Condition: pp. edges are rubbed; ends of spine starting to fray; spine sunned and stained; pp. 7-10 detached but present, although fore-edges are chipped; 203-6 and 3 of the double-page color plates are detached as a unit, but present and intact; light damp stain along lower edge of a few pages and 2 color plates in the center of the volume; 3-cm. (1¼-inch) tear from upper edge of leaf preceeding the second p.1, without loss of text; otherwise pages and plates are clean and tight. A very scarce example of a 19th-century publication aimed at the English-language tourist in Japan.. Very Good.