NMLP P-018054 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04
A Personal Matter (個人的な体験 / Kojinteki na taiken)
Kenzaburō Ōe · Shinchōsha (Tokyo) · 1964
Because Japanese publishers of the period rarely printed explicit printing statements, first-printing identification rests on the earliest dated colophon (奥付) reading the August 1964 first-issue date rather than a later reprint date, together with the correct slipcase and jacket; the colophon reprint date is the surest tell
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-018054 for "A Personal Matter (個人的な体験 / Kojinteki na taiken)" by Kenzaburō Ōe (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-018054, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).