Finely Illustrated Album Entitled On Manuscript Label On Upper Cover Asagao Fu Pictures Of

by Morning Glories Album

$9,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

15 folding leaves. 8vo 290 x 2000 mm. , orig. yellow semi-stiff wrappers wrappers a little soiled , new stitching. Japan: late Edo . Morning glories, first brought into Japan by the Chinese, were originally used for medicinal purposes, as a laxative. But soon the Japanese cultivated them as ornamental flowers. During the Edo period, morning glories became very popular and the subject of aesthetic admiration. Much like the “tulip mania” in

• Binding: Wrappers

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