Haru no neya otogi bunko 春閨御伽文庫 Collected Stories of Springtime in the Bedchamber

by Shōzan Tamanomon, artist, Kinga 梅亭金鵞 Baitei, author

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Title-page in Vol. I, 12 double-page, & five single-page woodcut illus., all finely printed in color. 14.5; 12; 11 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. decorated semi-stiff wrappers, color-printed title-slips, new stitching. Japan : after 1848. First edition and rare. The artist of this work, Tamanomon fl. 1848-54 , frequently confused with Koikawa Shōzan 恋川笑山, worked closely with the well-known Baitei 1821-93 on erotic books. Baitei’s

• Binding: Wrappers

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