Manuscript on paper, entitled “Kanrei higen” 管蠡秘言 “Comments on Narrowmindedness to Be Kept Secret”

by Ryōtaku 前野良沢 Maeno

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

37 manuscript diagrams in the text, some partially in color. 53 folding leaves. 8vo 240 x 170 mm. , orig. semi-stiff wrappers, old stitching. Japan : 1843. A manuscript copy of an unpublished radical rejection of the dominant ideology of Tokugawa Japan. In “Kanrei higen,” written in 1777, “Maeno rejected the Chinese Five Elements theory, traditional cosmology, and the Confucian view of nature. In their place he advanced the

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