Woodblock Print Book by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: E-hon Action Stories

Another yellow cover, another neat title slip, and a different volume of the same rousing tale.

E-Hon Action Stories is a woodblock print book by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), from Japan, dating to the Meiji Period (1868 – 1912 CE), in ink on paper. Illustrated books of this kind often appeared in several volumes, each bound separately with thread and labeled on the cover. The cover here is ochre paper with a faint embossed pavilion and a large round seal pressed into the lower half. A white slip at the upper left carries vertical columns of printed characters. The stitching runs down the right edge, which is where Japanese books begin. It is 6.1 inches wide and 8.7 high.

A sensible reader collects both volumes and avoids a cliffhanger.