Manuscript On Paper Entitled Nenju Gyoji Kojitsu Ko Examination Of Old Customs Carried Out During

by Kunzan Matsudaira Shiryu

$4,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

26 hand-colored brush & ink illus. 89; 78 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo 245 x 170 mm. , orig. wrappers a little frayed , old stitching. Japan : 1742 date of Preface . A late Edo copy of this well-known work of ethnography, which has never been published. Matsudaira proceeds chronologically, covering the calendar year and its festivals. For example, the book covers the “seven kinds of porridge” eaten at the time of the New Year in the Nara

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