(item number) 9201
(title) Hanmon Ki
(author) Misao Fujimura
(maker) Yanagi Shobo
(the date of issue) 1907 (M40) 06.01
(detailed) Homestyle ordered, main item: discolored, stained, spine: partially missing loss, spine to the title and author name written on viewing, end of a book ~ inside cover, 3 page written on viewing, staple rust, cover page: a little torn, back cover: a little torn, small missing loss
(starting bid price) 500,000 yen
(comment) On May 22, 1903, at the Kegon Falls in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Misao FUJIMURA, a student who caused a philosophical ripple effect mainly among intellectuals at that time, committed suicide by throwing himself, leaving his death poem "Iwato no Kana". It is said that he was actually alive and wrote this book by developing his criticism of society. It was, so to speak, a forged book that was immediately banned at that time, and even among hard-core collectors of old books, it was considered a phantom book. In 1980, it was listed on a catalogue of Naniwa Shorin in Osaka and it is known that Eiichi Tanizawa won the bid. Other existing books are said to be several, one of which is this book. On the last page of the book, there are comments by students who owned the book at that time. This is a passage passionately praying, "NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WORLD, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS TO SOCIETY, THERE IS NOTHING ELSE THAN THIS ONE. ......". As a 18 year-old student in Kyoto, what kind of life did he have after that?
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