Manuscript on paper, entitled “Gozui hen” “Shiitake Mushroom Cultivation”

by Shigehiro or Churyo Sato pen name: Onkosai by Honey Mushrooms, Sweet Potatoes

$2,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Four brush & black ink drawings in the text. 21 folding leaves. 8vo 237 x 165 mm. , orig. decorated semi-stiff wrappers, manuscript title on label on upper cover, new stitching. Japan : on final leaf in trans. : “Copied May 1814 by Toba.” An attractive manuscript copy of the first Japanese text on shiitake cultivation, written in 1796; it has remained unpublished. The beginning of our manuscript is entitled “Kyoshin roku” “Amazing

• Binding: Wrappers

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