Part 5, Volume 3 of Picture book of the exploits of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Ehon Toyotomi kunkōki gohen san)

Titel:: Part 5, Volume 3 of Picture book of the exploits of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Ehon Toyotomi kunkōki gohen san)

Description:: Woodblock printed book Part 5, Volume 3 of 'Picture book of the exploits of Toyotomi Hideyoshi' (Ehon Toyotomi kunkōki gohen san) written by Ryūsuitei Tanekiyo with illustrations by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, blocks carved by Egawa Sentarō and published by Izumiya Ichibei; printed in ink on paper, published Edo (Tokyo), 1860. The Chester Beatty has the first 5 parts (totalling 50 volumes, published between 1857 and 1860) of this illustrated biography of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536/37-1598). Commentary in the back of certain volumes indicates that the series was intended to run to 120 volumes, but a maximum 90 volumes are known to have been produced with Part 9 published 1874.

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