Iseko Gishiki Lottery For Visits To Ise Shrine Alternative Title Iseko Narbini Sangu No Gishiki

by Hanbei Yoshida Author Artist

$12,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Seven full-page & 12 double-page woodcut illus. 20; 15; 17; 17; 16 folding leaves. Five vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, remains of title-slips, new stitching. Kyoto: Yamaoka Ichibei 山岡市兵衛 et al., 1686. First edition and very rare; no copy in WorldCat. Yoshida Hanbei was the most important and prolific book illustrator in Kyoto and Osaka in the late 17th century, rivalled only by Hishikawa Moronobu in Edo. Yoshida created images for at least

• Binding: Wrappers

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