Nine examples, in 16 pamphlets, of odoke banashi, including five

by Jippensha Ikku 十返舎一九 by Odoke Banashi おどけばなし

$2,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Full-page woodcut on first page of each. Two or three leaves for each pamphlet. Small 4to, self-bound. All Osaka: see below, mid- to late Edo. Odoke banashi is a genre of humorous or satirical literature, employing puns, culturally coded jokes, and wordplay, and issued in inexpensive, ephemeral pamphlets of a few leaves. They helped to shape traditional comedic storytelling forms such as rakugo. Jippensha Ikku 1765–1831 was an

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