![]() Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, Japan and New York, NY, USA, 1993. Fine copy of this hefty masterpiece: Tight, bright, & clean in a bright jacket (price-clipped) with slight wear. SUPERB novel of 16th century Japan, when power struggles, palace intrigues, and Samurai warriors were rampant. For his magisterial novels, he was awarded the Cultural Order of Merit in 1960 (the highest award for a man of letters in Japan). Thus, Yoshikawa abridged Taiko ki originally in 15 volumes to only two volumes (here published as one). ![]() ![]() He often condensed and retold older classics such as Tale of Genji, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Eiji Yoshikawa (, Yoshikawa Eiji, 1892 - 1962) was a highly honored Japanese historical novelist. ![]() Quarto, red quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over black boards, illustrated with frontal matter includes a battle scene as frontispiece, Heraldry images, Measurement of Time in Medieval Japan, and double-spread map of "Central Japan in the Sixteenth Century" archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting Samuraii warriors fighting on horseback and on foot, map endpapers of "The Empire of Japan," 926 pages. ![]()
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