Paper bound book with staples written in Japanese "Sarumen Kanzya" (Biography of the boyhood of Hideyoshi Azuchi, Momoyama period) Tokyo: Kinko - do Shoseki. Book opens at the left, Beige front cover with a man wearing monkey mask, a hat, and a shinto robe, with kiri leaf crest on the front. Back ground is red. Title in black kanji on white background. Written in English in pencil across the cover "Sixteenth century biography of the boyhood of general Hideyoshi, Osaka Castle 1582, Azuchi, Momoyama - ku" Interior yellow pages with black kanji and illustrations which have been hand colored. Written in English on back cover "sometimes called the Napoleon of Japan"

1996.010.426