Five Japanese Love Stories | 
A newly acquired 1958 Folio Society edition of short stories originally published in 1686, in which Ihara is credited with creating the Ukiyo "Floating World" genre of Edo Period Japanese literature.
Folio covers are often difficult to photograph: this one is bound in a beautiful watchet-tinted silk ?
The end papers and title pages are beneath, and a detail of one of the woodcut illustrations to the left ❤️
AllDebooks What a find 😍 3mo
Bookwomble @AllDebooks Yes, I'm pleased with it 😊 3mo
LeahBergen That‘s beautiful! 3mo
tpixie Lovely ☺️ 3mo
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