Dinner, Monday, April 12, 1937 [Souvenir menu -- M.S. Asama Maru]. de [OCEAN LINERS -- MENUS]. KANKO, B. (Commander) - 1937.

[Tokyo]: Nippon Yusen Kaisha, [Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry, Ltd.], 1937. 8vo. 5.4 x 7.5 in. [4 pp. (unpaginated).] Track chart for the 1937 voyage on back cover. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers, Ukiyo-e woodblock print of one of “restful scene on the ancient Tokaido Highway” by Hiroshige (minor rubbing, slight creasing at lower corner, from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald (1892-1977), stepson of famed southern California oil man, William F. Byrne, as well as oil company, and drilling equipment owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition, thus of this nicely illustrated souvenir menu for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Ocean Liner M.S. Asama Maru, during her voyage to Japan & China April, 1937. The Asama Maru, was one of the three premier N.Y.K. line sister ships, completed originally in Sept., 1929, and the menu dishes range from Supremem Chicken Halibut Sarah to the Japanese dish, Makunouchi & Osuimono [bento box]. Worldcat locates 1 copy (UCSD).