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Musashi abumi

by: Asai, Ryōi, 1612?-1691.

Publication date: 1661

Publisher: Kyōto : Nakamura Matabee, Manji 4 [1661]

Collection: japaneserarebooks; brigham_young_university; americana

Contributor: Harold B. Lee Library

Language: Japanese

Title (alternate script): むさしあぶみ.

Author (alternate script): æµäºäºæ

Author's name taken from the preface; publisher and date mentioned on the last page of the text

Kokusho sÅmokuroku. Vol. 7, p. 619

Illustrations printed within black-ruled border

Printed on double leaves

This is a popular reader narrationg in detail the conflagration in Edo in 1657. The author may have witnessed the calamity. The author was a famous popular writer in the early Edo period

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Bound in traditional, Japanese, side-sewn, blue, paper; title labels on upper covers