A Collection Of 118 Printed Broadsides Ranging From 308 X 450 Mm To 156 X 95 Mm Produced As Notices By

by Kyoka Poetry Societies

$35,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

An important and remarkable survival. “In general, the chonin, the bourgeois citizens of Edo and Osaka particularly, enjoyed literature that was light and entertaining: stories of love and intrigue, often with fantastic or occult elements; and verse that was very much on the surface, relying greatly for its appeal on word-plays that the nature of the language, with it innumerable homophones, encourages…from the beginning of the Temmei period in 1781,

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