About “Nihon no Furuhon-ya”

About us

This website is presented by the members of the Japanese Association of Dealers in Old Books (JADOB, or Zenkoshoren in Japanese).
With 2,200 affiliated bookstores, JADOB is Japan’s oldest and largest association of old book dealers.
The Tokyo Association of Dealers in Old Books（TADOB, or Tokyokoshokumiai in Japanese）
operates the site as we move toward our objective of obtaining the participation of all Japanese dealers in old books.
We provide a wide range of services, including searches for and sales of old books,
information on old book dealers and special events, and registration for book searches.

Variety

Each of our dealers offers a wide range of attractive products and services.
The books that customers seek are surely hidden somewhere on the shelves of an old book dealer.
Please use this site to look for out of stock, out of print, or rare books.

Defining traits

The biggest feature of all our old books bookstore I am not affiliated with comic now based abroad Than during the war after World War II secret, fidential material Kaku. With Edo and Meiji Era and earlier Was published in the past and you are handling a wide range of books and scrolls and transcribed. Muromachi Period.
Manuscripts, printed books of the Edo period, published in print about it during the 18th century Song Motoaki Kiyoshi neighboring China and Korea
Europe and the books, and elsewhere have been collected and commercialize their products aggressively handle
Is. This attitude is “used bookstore in Japan” has been reflected in the database and each site.
The extent of these genres is staggering.
For example, some dealers handle the comics and anime-related products that touched off the Cool Japan boom.
They also handle photographs and posters for collectors, manuscripts from the Muromachi period,
Edo period block prints, books and publications for all subject matter from the 19th century to the present,
previously secret material from prewar, postwar, and wartime Japan,
printed material from China and the Korean Peninsula dating from the Sung, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties,
and material published in Europe both before and after the 18th century.
That approach is reflected in the Nihon no Furuhon-ya database and all the websites operated
by the dealers who are members of JADOB.

Performance and reliability

Only JADOB members are featured on the Nihon no Furuhon-ya website.
Our customers include large companies, public and private universities,
libraries, museums, and national institutions.
Our performance and reliability since our establishment in 1996
has enabled us to win the support of our members.