English: Title-page of 'My Travels in China, Japan and Java, 1903' (1905) by Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala State. The book is a record of a personal journey undertaken in 1903 and 1904 by the Raja of Kapurthala State, Jagatjit Singh, with his wife. With 56 rare photographs, a frontispiece, and a map.

Title: My Travels in China, Japan and Java

Author: H.H. Raja-i-Rajgan Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co, 1905. First and only edition.

From the preface:

"This book is written chiefly as a record of my brief visit to the Far East and for the purpose of presentation to my friends. It makes no pretension to literary excellence, being designed more as a record of facts and personal impressions of people and places seen, than to emphasise any claim, on my part, to consideration from the public as an author. It may, I hope, be found interesting to those who are now following the course of the war between Russia and Japan, as it describes, to a certain extent, some things about the latter country, and it gives a brief account of some interesting parts of Manchuria and other places, on which, owing to the war, public interest is now centred."

Japanese itinerary of Jagatjit Singh:

JAPAN

Nagaaki— Shimonoseki — Yokohama— Kioto — Sir Claude MacDonald — Garden Party at British Legation, Tokio — Yokohama — Koma- kura — Imperial Garden Party — Tokio — Ball at British Legation — Japanese Society Wedding — Imperial Duck-Hunt — Utsonomiya — Japanese Troops-— Imperial University, Tokio — Prison — Museum — Chuzenji — Temples, Nlkko — Visit to the Emperor, Tokio — The Emperor of Japan — Imperial Palace — My Birthday — Japanese Polo — Pheasant Shooting — Barracks — Japanese Troops — Departure from Tokio — Excursion to Lake Hakone — Nagoya — Ancient Capital of Kioto — Katsura Gava Rapids — Kioto — Nara — Great Geisha Dance — Lake Biwa — Osaka — Great Arsenal, Osaka — Departure from Kobe—S.s. Koenig Albert — Good-bye to Japan