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• English translation Japanese poetry selection Chilimen book

• Hiyoshi-cho Kyobashi-ku Tokyo Published by Takejiro Nagokugawa Edited by Florentz Translated by Arthur Lloyd Artists: Yosai Kikuchi Kason Suzuki Kajita Hanko and others

First Printed Cloth Edition published in 1896. Now nicely contained in a protective box. Very, very rare.

Arthur Lloyd (10 April 1852 – 27 October 1911) was a minister of the Church of England, fellow and Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge, academic, translator, and biographer. He also served as an Anglican missionary to Japan. Lloyd arrived in Japan in 1884 as a missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. As well as his church mission work, Lloyd held various positions in Japan as an academic at Keio University, a lecturer at the Imperial University and at the Imperial Navy War College. From 1897 to 1903 Lloyd served as president of Rikkyo University. For many years, both as librarian and as serving president from 1903 to 1905, Lloyd was an active member of the Asiatic Society of Japan, serving as their president from 1903 to 1905. Much of Lloyd’s early studies of Japanese Buddhism were published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Lloyd is buried in Aoyama Cemetery.