The Tale of Genji : The Uji Characters
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1983. limited first edition. Leather bound. Luscious plum leather/boards; gilt decoration all around with gilt lettering and 4 raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers with champagne satin place-holder ribbon. xviii, 307 pp. with lovely woodcut illlustrations by Yamamoto Shunsho. Fine. Unread, clean, tight copy. Pristine. Item #161582
Includes a note from the editors, a translator's special introduction to this edition (written in 1982), and a list of the illustrations, which are a selection from those reproduced for the Alfred A. Knopf 1976 edition. They were first published in 1650 in the Illustrated Tale of Genji. Title also in Japanese on title page.
OCLC: 11067356
Price: $225.00