KAMAKURA FACT & LEGEND

Rare first edition of this singular work. Olive cloth, elegant, simply decorated binding, lightly dulled overall. 307 pages. No place, preface dated 1918. Former owner signature on endpaper dated 1919. Bibliographic source cites the publication as [Tokyo, for sale by Maruzen Co. 1918]. Front hinge cracked but sound. The author, an English woman who married a Japanese Diplomat, spent decades in close research into the secrets of the ancient city, passing hours with Shinto priests and Buddhist monks. This classic volume is both the original and the most in-depth guide to the ancient capital of the Shogunate and Samurai (1185 to 1333.).