Sheng xue shi tu 聖學十圖 K: Sŏnghak sipto; Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning

by Hwang 李滉 Yi, or T’Oegye

$9,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

All sheets with woodblock diagrams. Ten woodblock-printed sheets each ca. 1045 x 580 mm. . Korea : 18th or 19th century? A very rare woodblock-printed broadside edition of the influential Sŏnghak sipto, by Yi Hwang 1501-71 , “Korea’s greatest philosopher.”–Pratt & Rutt, Korea. A Historical and Cultural Dictionary Curzon: 1999 , p. 517. Yi, a child prodigy, was a scholar and government official. He served four kings in a number

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