Momo chidori kyoka awase 百千鳥狂歌合 Manifold Birds, A Competition of Kyoka Poetry

by Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 Kitagawa, artist

$135,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

ca. 1791-2. 15 double-page woodblock-printed color illustrations. 9.5 folding leaves & colophon page; 8.5 folding leaves & colophon page. Two vols. 8vo 255 x 189 mm. , orig. blue patterned wrappers gajo jitate-style, somewhat rubbed , with slightly oxidized silver pigment decoration, orig. block-printed labels on both covers labels a little worn . From Vols. I & II colophons : Edo: Tsutaya Juzaburo, ca. 1791 or 1792 . First edition, of the utmost

• Binding: Wrappers

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