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by Kiseki Ejima

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First edition

Ten double-page woodcuts. 16; 15; 15; 15; 16 folding leaves. Five vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff decorated wrappers, title-slips, new stitching. Kyoto: Kikuya Kihei 菊屋喜兵衛, 1730. First edition and very rare; WorldCat lists only the Princeton copy. Ejima was one of the four most famous authors of ukiyo-zōshi novels, fashionable around 1682 to 1741. They “were romances, or often collections of stories, set in large cities usually Edo or

• Binding: Wrappers

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