The story of Shiūten Dôji
Subtitle: From a Japanese 'makimono' in six 'ken' or rolls
By: By F. V. Dickins
Published: 1885
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng; jpn
Number of pages: 28
Notes: Caption title.

"The rolls are undated, but may belong to the first century of the Tokugawa rule. The text is caligraphed in the 'grass' character, on silk gauze ... The illuminations, thirty-four in number, follow each other with ... intervals of text ... In the translation I have endeavoured to preserve as much as possible of the colour and spirit of the original. Some condensation ... was necessary ... Reproductions ... of four of the illuminations are appended."--p. 2-3.

Extract from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic society, New series. v. 17.