Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of text “Secret and Truthful Story of the Capture of the Bandits.”

by Zokkinhiseidan 賊禁秘誠談

$1,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

39; 41 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. Large 8vo 277 x 187 mm. , orig. semi-stiff wrappers with orig. manuscript title slip, new stitching. Japan: after 1782. The story of the life of Ishikawa Goemon 石川五右衛門 1558-94 , a legendary bandit of the late “Warring States” period. Historical sources pertaining to Ishikawa’s life are extremely sparse, amounting to only a few mentions of his execution by being boiled in a vat of oil in

• Binding: Wrappers

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