合ごう巻かん

noun

gōkan; bound-volume picture book

A type of illustrated popular fiction from the late Edo period, formed by binding together several individual booklets (sasshi) into a single volume. Often featured woodblock-printed illustrations and text.

• 合ごう巻かんは江え戸ど時じ代だい後こう期きに流りゅう行こうした絵え入いりの読よみ物ものです。

  Gōkan are illustrated reading materials that were popular in the late Edo period.

• この図と書しょ館かんには貴き重ちょうな合ごう巻かんのコレクションがある。

  This library has a valuable collection of gōkan.