Manuscript On Paper Of The First Three Imperially Commissioned Waka Anthologies Kokin Wakashu

by Sandaishu

$15,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

155; 203; 176 leaves of text plus a few blank leaves at beginning & end of each vol. . Three vols. 8vo 246 x 173 mm. , a cont. tetsuyoso binding, gold silk endpapers with patterns of pine trees & sprays of gold kindei, “golden mud” , with gold silk brocade over semi-stiff wrappers, red silk manuscript title labels on upper covers. Japan : 1707? A beautifully calligraphed manuscript, in three volumes, of the Sandaishu “collection of three

• Binding: Wrappers

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