Jitsugokyo esho Joyful Entertainment Gathered & Explained, Disguised as a Textbook

by Shozan Koikawa, artist

$4,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Nine double-page, one single-page, & several woodcut illus. in the text, all color-printed, and a number of black & white woodcuts throughout the text. One preliminary leaf pasted-down on the inside upper wrapper, 19 folding leaves, one leaf of ads at end pasted-down on the inside lower wrapper. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers decorated with the characters for “Kiraku” in hiragana, orig. block-printed title labels on upper cover, new stitching. “Ukiyo”:

• Binding: Wrappers

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