Eight orihon accordion format , finely woodblock-printed, of the complete Lotus Sutra S.: Saddharmapundarikasutra; J.: Myohorengekyo 妙法蓮華経

by Lotus Sutra

$19,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

23-33 characters per column; 6 columns per page. Text-block height: 230 mm. Eight vols. 190 x 8600; 10,000; 9300; 8200; 8900; 8600; 8000; 7000 mm. . Tall narrow 8vo, orig. semi-stiff dark blue boards minor rubbing , orig. block-printed mica-dusted title labels on upper covers, each entitled “Shinpan Myohorengekyo” “new carved boards for the Myohorengekyo” & volume number. Japan : early to mid-Edo? A very rare — apparently unrecorded

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