Hand-colored woodblock print generally known as Oranda sen zusetsu 阿蘭陀船図説 , depicting a “Schellach-type” Dutch trading ship

by Shihei 林子平 Hayashi

$32,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

1782. Print 830 x 585 mm. , mounted on a hanging scroll 1320 x 620 mm. , with wooden roller & cord for hanging. Nagasaki: Toshimaya 豊嶋屋 , 1782. This striking print, carefully and appropriately mounted on a hanging scroll, is an important and rare survival: it made possible the publication of Hayashi’s “epoch-making” Donald Keene Kaikoku heidan 海國兵談 Military Defense of a Maritime Nation , which was privately

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