Cool Hand written book

[MikeJeter]

Hi, I have a very cool book that I inherited. Could someone please tell me what the Title of the book is?
Attached is a .pdf of the cover of the book. I've only been told that it is volume 4.
Thank you ever so much in advance.

MikeJeter

 

[Grandpa Frank]

I posted a picture of the title in case someone can't handle a PDF file.

 

[Toritoribe]

正史実傳 伊呂波文庫 四
Seishi Jitsuden Iroha Bunko Yon
(the fourth volume of a novel based on Chūshingura, written by Tamenaga Shunsui in the late Edo period )

That's wood block printing, not hand written, btw.

 

[Mike Cash]

？史
実侍

伊？伎文？

EDIT

Missed it a mile!

Never even thought the 侍 might be the old 伝. Also got fooled by the identical appearance of the亻 and the 氵

 

[MikeJeter]

Thank you very much!!

正史実傳 伊呂波文庫 四
Seishi Jitsuden Iroha Bunko Yon
(the fourth volume of a novel based on Chūshingura, written by Tamenaga Shunsui in the late Edo period)

That's wood block printing, not hand written, btw.

That is awesome... I had no idea this process happened.
From Wiki... Woodblock printing in Japan (Japanese: 木版画, moku hanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre; however, it was also used very widely for printing books in the same period. Woodblock printing had been used in China for centuries to print books, long before the advent of movable type, but was only widely adopted in Japan surprisingly late, during the Edo period (1603-1867). Although similar to woodcut in western printmaking in some regards, the moku hanga technique differs in that it uses water-based inks—as opposed to western woodcut, which often uses oil-based inks. The Japanese water-based inks provide a wide range of vivid colors, glazes, and transparency