HOKUETSU KIDAN <BR> Authors: Tachibana Konron Shigeyo ????? (n.d.) Editor: Ryutei Tanehiko ???? (1783-1842) Illustrator: Katsushika Hokusai ???? (1760-1849) Place of publication: Edo Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi ????? Date of publication: Bunka 10 (1813) Collation: 6 vol.; complete; 158×228. Vol.1: 26 sheets, numb.: 7 sheets: 1-8: 3 pag. preface, dated: Bunka 8 (1811); signed: Ryutei Tanehiko; 1 pag. tab. of cont.; 1 sheet preface, dated: Bunka 6 (1809); signed: Akera gyojin Rinsei ??????; 4 pag. introd. with map; 4 pag. introd. with illustr.: dated: Bunka 8 (1811); signed: Tachibana Shigeyo; 1-19, kan 1. Strange stories from the northern part of Echigo Province. Vol.2: 24 sheets: 1-24, kan 2. Vol.3: 27 sheets: 1-27, kan 3. Vol.4: 23 sheets: 1-23, kan 4. Vol.5: 26 sheets: 1-26, kan 5. Vol.6: 20 sheets: 1-20, kan 6 with 1 sheet advert. and colophon. Title page, inside front cover vol.1: title: Hokuetsu kidan; author: Tachibana Konron Shigeyo; editor.: Ryutei Tanehiko; illustrator: Katsushika Hokusai; date: Bunka 9 (1812); publisher: Eijudo ??? (Nishimuraya Yohachi). Hashira-title: Hokuetsu kidan. Colophon: author: Tachibana Konron Shigeyo; editor: Ryutei Tanehiko; illustrator: Katsushika Hokusai; engravers: prefaces and kan 2-4: Egawa Tomekichi ????; kan 1: Hirano Jihei ????; kan 5-6: Koizumi Shinpachi ????; inside back cover: date: Bunka 10 (1813); publishers: Edo, Eijudo, Nishimuraya Yohachi and Osaka, Bunkindo ???, Kawachiya Tasuke ?????. <BR> <BR> Second copy. As above. No title page. Colophon as above, but no publishers inside back cover.