Illustrated manuscript on paper, entitled “Kozai Fusha…zo. Kiseki fukiseki… indecipherable name of the artist ” “The Enjoyment of Rocks. Belonging to Kozai Fusha…”

by Gardens: Rocks

$2,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

24 black & white with gray wash brush drawings of rocks. 25 folding leaves including upper wrappers . 8vo 265 x 195 mm. , orig. wrappers bound in later wrappers. Japan : late Edo. A finely illustrated manuscript concerned with garden rocks from the three regions Ono, Masuda, and Yoshiki of Hida Province today’s Gifu Prefecture . Rocks have always played a fundamental role in Japanese garden design, and because of the unique geological history

• Binding: Wrappers

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