Lot 288
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ANONYMOUS, 18th century [Nara ehon]: Eboshiori; 3 vols. (6½ x 9½in.; 16.5 x 24.2cm.); fukurotoji-bon; text in ink, illustrations in ink, color and gold leaf on paper; covers dark-blue paper decorated in gold pigment with flowers and bands of mist and flecks of gold leaf and with gold-decorated orange title slips inscribed in black ink; inside covers applied with silver leaf stamped with crane and minogame medallions on a diaper ground; no inner front cover and no back cover to Vol. III; sewn in brown thread; covers torn and creased, minor worming, soil, rubbing and random stains
ANONYMOUS, 18th century [Nara ehon]: Eboshiori; 3 vols. (6½ x 9½in.; 16.5 x 24.2cm.); fukurotoji-bon; text in ink, illustrations in ink, color and gold leaf on paper; covers dark-blue paper decorated in gold pigment with flowers and bands of mist and flecks of gold leaf and with gold-decorated orange title slips inscribed in black ink; inside covers applied with silver leaf stamped with crane and minogame medallions on a diaper ground; no inner front cover and no back cover to Vol. III; sewn in brown thread; covers torn and creased, minor worming, soil, rubbing and random stains

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ANONYMOUS, 18th century [Nara ehon]: Eboshiori; 3 vols. (6½ x 9½in.; 16.5 x 24.2cm.); fukurotoji-bon; text in ink, illustrations in ink, color and gold leaf on paper; covers dark-blue paper decorated in gold pigment with flowers and bands of mist and flecks of gold leaf and with gold-decorated orange title slips inscribed in black ink; inside covers applied with silver leaf stamped with crane and minogame medallions on a diaper ground; no inner front cover and no back cover to Vol. III; sewn in brown thread; covers torn and creased, minor worming, soil, rubbing and random stains

Vol. I: 21 leaves; 3pp. text; single-p. ill.; 8pp. text; single-p. ill.; 7pp. text; single-p. ill.; 8pp. text; single-p. ill.; 8pp. text; single-p. ill.; 2pp. text; single blank p.; Vol. II: 25 leaves; 8pp. text; single-p. ill.; 3pp. text; single-p. ill.; 8pp. text; single-p. ill.; 12pp. text; single-p. ill.; 13pp. text; single-p. ill.; 1p. text; Vol. III: 21 leaves; 9pp. text; single-p. ill.; 3pp. text; single-p. ill.; 5pp. text; single-p. ill.; 12pp. text; single-p. ill.; 4pp. text; single-p. ill.; 2pp. text (final 2 leaves split at bottom edges) (3)

Lot Essay

Eboshiori revolves around the intrigue in a shop for court caps (eboshi) and the machinations of warring factions of medieval Japan. In the denouement the disguised Minamoto no Yoshitsune, his hair cut to blend in with commoners, defeats Kumasaka, a burglar on the run.

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