Seken johari kagami or Johari kagami Mirror of Past Existences

by Issho Yokote

$4,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Six double-page woodcuts. 22.5; 21.5; 25.5 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers rather tired , orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers one label quite rubbed & defective , new stitching. From the colophon: Edo et al.: Suharaya Mohei, 1768. First edition of this rare ukiyozoshi “books of the floating world” , a type of prose story popular in the 18th century, intensely realistic and usually involving ordinary

• Binding: Wrappers

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