The Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets: A Poetry Album With Illustrations by Chobunsai, Eishi,

HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. (Stated).* Date of Publication: 1991* Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins.* Binding and cover condition: Beige cloth, red title to spine. No bumps, minor rubs to head and tail of spine slight impact marks to front edge, no other visible faults. VG+.* Jacket condition: Glossy illustrated dust wrapper showing Daini no Sammi by Chobunsai Eishi. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £25.00. Some shelf wear to top edges and to head & tail of spine. Tear to top front of spine and front cover, (re-inforced), now in a clear protective detachable jacket. VG* Contents condition: EX-LIBRARY copy with stamps only to prelims. Coloured end papers (terra cotta). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. Some marks to top edge otherwise no visible faults. VG+.*Illustrations: Colour & b/w prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 191 pp. text. ii pp. notes & blank page at rear.* Description: This beautifully illustrated volume celebrates in art and text the work of top women poets who worked from the ninth through thirteenth centuries in Heian-period and Kamakura-period Japan. The book first provides an introduction, selected readings, and background notes for a Japanese illustrated poetry manuscript (Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen) owned by the New York Public Library. Turned over and read from what westerners would consider the back cover, the book then provides biographical information for each of the poetesses, a romanized Japanese version of the poet's verse, an English translation, analysis of the verse, and a two-page woodblock graphic that depicts the poetess and her verse in calligraphy.* A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st/1st with some jacket wear reducing it to VG. Now in clear un-attached protective wapper.*