Author: Baitei Kinga.
Title: [Enzetsuburi : Sokuseki Shinamono].
Description: Tokyo, Man'yukai 1888 (Meiji 21). 18x13cm publisher's colour illustrated lithographed cloth backed boards; one double page illustration, smaller illustrations through the text. Natural browning of the cheap paper. An excellent copy. ¶ Yes, I bought this for the cover and condition without any idea of what it's about. Still don't but I think it's mocking speechification and spruiking which was as much a growth industry in Japan as the west.From what I can figure out Baitei Kinga never took enough time from writing to have a life.

Keywords: literature fiction social history humour Japan c19th meijimeiji