Item #27651 Yoshiwara: The Nightless City. Utamaro, ills.
Yoshiwara: The Nightless City.
Yoshiwara: The Nightless City.

Yoshiwara: The Nightless City.

Tokyo / Paris: Iymetsu, Ltd, Charles Carrington, 1907. Hardcover. 'Yoshiwara is that district in Tokio, the capitol of Japan, that is set aside for the segregation of the Houses of A Million Pleasures. Think Geishas. 8vo, 340pp, 6 b&w illustrations by Utamaro. Cloth hardboard covers stitched Japanese style with title in Japanese on the cover, housed in a folding hardboard cover with hinges starting, some wear and water marking. Slt. foxing, still a very clean copy.

"Privately printed for members of the Erotic Society of Japan." OCLC: 6911150. Limited edition of 500 copies, this number 471. Very good overall. Item #27651

Price: $225.00

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