Mesamashigusa 目さまし草 The Wakeful Weed

by Seichutei Shukushin 淸中亭叔親

$4,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Many woodcut illus. several full-page . 37 folded leaves. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, orig. block-printed title label on upper cover, new stitching. Japan : Preface dated 1815. First edition. Tobacco first arrived in Japan about 1570, and by 1820 nearly the entire population of Tokyo were tobacco smokers. “The tobacco merchant Seichutei Shukushin captured the popular fascination with tobacco and investigated its history in his book The

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