Very scarce first full year of the earliest Japanese evangelical missionary magazine; no other examples on the market at the time of cataloguing and to our recollection the first time we have ever handled it.  

Hoy, W. E. [ed.] The Japan Evangelist. Issued Every Two Months in the Interest of Christian Work in Japan. Volume I. October 1893 through August 1894 [complete]. Printed by the Yokohama Seishi Bunsha. 1894. 360pp.

Contents include: Japanese Religious Writers; American Women and their Japanese Sisters by A. Moore; The Japanese Samurai by T. Nagashima; The First Annual Meeting of the Y.P.S.C.E. in Japan; Okayama Orphan Asylum; The First Protestant Believer in Japan by J. Maeda; Missionaries and the Language by J. H. De Forest; Pantheism and the East; Simple Scenes of Japanese Life by Max Marron; Excursions through Japanese Ethical Literature of the Present Time by Dr. L. Busse; The Education of Japanese Women by Yatose Niimi; The Influence of Pantheism by J. H. De Forest; Experiences of the First Woman Physician in Modern Japan by Dr. Gin Ogino; Christianity in Early Japan by Koji Inaba; Fox Worship in Japan by W. E. Hoy; The Past and the Future of Japanese Woman Physicians by Dr. Gin Ogino; Prince Siddartha - The Japanese Buddha by J. H. De Forest; Applied Christianity in the Hokkaido; Darkest Tokyo by Iwagoro Matsubara; The Dream of My Sword by Keiji Nakanome; Samurai by A. Miyakie; etc. etc. 

Good in a 4to binding printed on textured cloth; front hinge partially through. Textually near fine, very clean and sound.