8vo. [2], v, [1], 248pp, [4]. Printed in double columns. With an engraved folding map and a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's blind-stamped limp red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked. One preliminary leaf detached, short tears to map at gutter, scattered spotting.

The first edition of a tourist guide to the roads, railways, and primary population centres of Japan compiled by American physician and interpreter of the U.S. legation at Tokyo, Willis Norton Whitney (1855-1918), author of Notes on the history of medical progress in Japan (1885).