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Yanagisawa Bunzo &c. - [Kaidan Kasane Monogatari].
Osaka, Konomura Shosuke 1889 (Meiji 22). 18x13cm publisher's colour lithograph boards with cloth spine; [4],56,[2]pp on double folded leaves, one double page and four single page illustrations. Mild browning, a pleasing fresh copy. ¶ First edition of this version of the Kasane ghost story, a story that bulges with murder, greed, curses, possession and guilt. Supposedly based on a true story the saintly monk Yuten stars as the exorcist, and was the inspiration for prints, books, rakugo, kabuki and film. The double leaves seemed a bit extravagant for a book like this but all the paper is re-used from some other job with printing on the other side. This is a 'ball cover' (boru hyoshi, apparently a corruption of 'board') book - a signal of modernity and the Japanese equivalent of a yellowback: flimsy western style bindings with lithograph covers that rarely survive in such good shape. Worldcat finds only the NDL entry and a search of CiNii found no more.
AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 306.5 US$ 328.77 | £UK 262 | JP¥ 50298] Booknumber: 10891
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AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 306.5 US$ 328.77 | £UK 262 | JP¥ 50298] Booknumber: 10891
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Total: AUD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 306.5 US$ 328.77 | £UK 262 | JP¥ 50298]
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