Keiseikai toranomaki 傾城買虎之卷 or Tosei toranomaki Pledged in Love to One, Bought

by Another: A Guide by author Tanishi Kingyo 田螺金魚

$1,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

One double-page black & white woodcut. 48 folding leaves. Small 8vo, orig. green wrappers wrappers a little tired , orig. block-printed title label on upper cover label soiled , new stitching. Edo : Preface dated 1778. First edition of this rare sharebon, stories revolving around humor and entertainments in the pleasure quarters, most popular in the 1770s and 1780s. This novel, a real “tearjerker,” is one of the masterpieces about the Yoshiwara

• Binding: Wrappers

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