Two Finely Illustrated Handscrolls On Fine Paper Related To Star Worship The First Entitled At

by Star Worship In Japan

$13,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Numerous fine paintings & diagrams throughout, using blue, green, red, gray, yellow, much gold, silver, & flesh-colored pigments. Siddham script in several places. Two scrolls 185 x 17,660 mm.; 175 x 9210 mm. , each with gold-speckled inner endpapers at front, dark blue paper on outsides. At the end of the first scroll, a note states these texts were first written in 1192 Kenkyū 建久 3 & copied on an auspicious day in the 12th month of Genna 元和 5 this

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