Handscroll On Paper Entitled On A Slip Of Paper Formerly Pasted On Outside Sonyosho Annotations On

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$8,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

20 fine brush & black ink drawings of deities & several smaller images. Scroll 290 x 11,980 mm. , delicately ruled in gray ink, wooden roller. Japan : 17th-18th century copy? A copy of the eighth scroll from the ten-scroll set known alternatively as “Zuzōshō” 図像抄 “Annotated Drawings” or “Sonyōshō” 尊容抄 “Annotations on the Noble Countenances of the Deities Depicted ” , along with “Jikkanshō” 十巻抄

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