Shun’ei shōchikubai 春詠松竹梅 Poetry Reading in the Springtime; Pine, Bamboo, & Plum Flowers

by Erotica

$3,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Three frontis. & 18 double-page color-printed woodblock illus. Colored title-page in Vol. I with gold printing. 15; 11.5; 12.5 folding leaves. Three vols. 12mo 115 x 81 mm. , orig. decorated semi-stiff wrappers with a few careful repairs , orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. Japan : late Edo. A very rare shunga, with the artist’s pen name, Kairō dōketsu 開楼童傑, on the title; and the author’s pen name,

• Binding: Wrappers

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