I recently acquired a copy of this book in a second hand library (with the
three Cymatiums on the front cover). Whereas it seems there is only
Japanese text, my copy has a title page mostly in English. It says:
Coloured illustrations of the Shells of Japan by Tetsuaki Kira 1955, Osaka
Japan. As for the rest of the book, there are many colour plates (quite
unusual for a book that old), and the text is in Japanese, but at least, as
Tucker Abbott used to say 'the latin is in English'

Patty
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