Jinkoku Ki Or Jinkokki Record Of People Their Provinces Or Shinkan Jinkoku Ki Record Of People

by Soko Seki Ed

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

First edition

Numerous woodcut illus. in text. Four vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching, orig. title-slips on covers partially perished . Tokyo: Suhara ya Mohei 須原茂兵衛, 1701. First edition of this rare work on the customs of Japan’s provinces. The book is of unknown authorship. There are two versions, the older being from the Muromachi period 1336-1573 , the second being the edition of our book. The revision was made by Seki Sokō d.

• Binding: Wrappers

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