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Kelly & Walsh – A Short Account of The Forty-Seven Ronins

Posted: November 10th, 2023 | No Comments »

The great publishing house of Kelly and Walsh had branches in Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong & Singapore and published (and of course sold) books in all those locations. Here is a fairly rare crepe cloth book, A Short Account of The Forty-Seven Ronins, published c.1893 by their Yokohama branch (then a treaty port)…



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