Japanese Army c.1890's Handwritten Infantryman's Military Manual with Drawings

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Seller: ephemeracity1 ✉️ (3,465) 100%, Location: Dorset, GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 291936320828 Japanese Army c.1890's Handwritten Infantryman's Military Manual with Drawings. [Japanese Army] c.1890's Manuscript Training Handbook Written by an Infantryman. Hardbound, 143pp together with two fabulous fold-out original drawings and two further folding sheets tipped-in. Completely handwritten throughout with numerous small illustrative drawings showing attack and defensive positions, trenches, fortifications etc. The book may have been written by a military school cadet and details and names uniform and equipment, samples for letter writing and printing, Red Cross laws & instructions, records of training schedules, duty time tables, questions and answers for tests, secondary defence: wire netting, trenches, mines, transport for the wounded, administration of medicine, emergency procedures, training courses, basic lessons, maps, guard duties & punishment, war deaths, family ad war comrades, emergency calls, field battle and manual reading, detail of strategy - some illustrated by drawings noted above. Also "The Art of War" - infantry, shooting, physical, "Ken-Tao" training, attack manual, army punishment laws, laws of patrolling, military penal code, field training, combat orders, reporting, interrogation of POW's, positions & commands of Army front patrol, infantry programme, semaphore signalling, etc. In addition, there are two tipped-in folding sheets, a training camp daily class schedule, and a (printed) form for the Imperial Volunteer Fleet Construction Summary by the Teikoku (Imperial) Machine Corporation. All text in Japanese, with recent English topic translation notes tipped-in throughout. Approx. 130x205mm., original hard covers with attractive simulated gold shark skin paper, some light rubbing and small (8mm) split on spine. Internally in chiefly good to very good condition, occasional ink bleeding where there is text to both sides of the pages. Undated, though the uniform in the fold-out drawing suggests a date during the 1890's. A remarkable and possibly unique piece of Japanese military history.
  • Condition: Used
  • Condition: Please see full description below for condition.
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan
  • Country/ Organization: Japan
  • Type: Documents & Maps
  • Service: Army
  • Era: 1816-1913

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