Kyoka hyakunin isshu alternative title: Kyoka Momochidori trans.: Crazy Verses or Light Verses. A Chorus of Birds

by Tenmei Rojin

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

108 finely color-printed woodcut illus. mostly two-thirds of a page . 55 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. speckled wrappers a bit worn & somewhat rubbed, eleven folding leaves with some worming in gutter, extending into images, neatly repaired , orig. title label on upper cover, modern stitching. N.p.: 1857 or 1858. First edition of this finely illustrated work by Hiroshige. Each page is divided into three sections: the top contains two poems, the central

• Binding: Wrappers

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