A collection of ten talisman or amulet Buddhist woodblock-printed scrolls on paper

by Talisman Buddhist Scrolls

$6,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Of various heights & lengths ranging from 48 to 80 mm. in height & 4,000 to 10,500 mm. in length , all in very good condition, some with silk front endpapers, four with orig. core rollers. Japan : mid- to late Edo. Ten very rare examples of kokonoe no mamori, good luck talismans printed in the form of extremely long and narrow scrolls; because of their ephemeral nature, they are rare today. These talisman scrolls were not really meant to be

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