Enshoku shinasadame 艶色品定女 Judgments on the Erotic Charms of Women

by Kunisada 歌川国貞 Utagawa, artist

$9,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Two pages of Preface, six pages of table of contents two in each vol. , 15 double-page, & six full-page richly colored woodcut illus. see below . 16; 13; 12 folding leaves. Three vols. Large 8vo, orig. decorated wrappers see below , orig. decorated block-printed title labels on upper covers. Edo: ca. 1830s . First edition of “one of the most outrageous erotic versions of The Tale of Genji.”–John T. Carpenter in The Tale of Genji. A

• Binding: Wrappers

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