Finely Illustrated Scroll On Paper Entitled In Manuscript On Gold Paper Label On Outside Tokugawa

by Ikuno Silver Mine Scroll

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

1938. Scroll 275 x 13,850 mm. , borders of speckled silver, inner front endpaper with silver decoration, outer side covered with gold & red silk brocade, inner wooden core roller. At end in trans. : “Adachi Ginrei 足立銀嶺 the artist …copied by Ōju 應需, 1938.” A richly illustrated scroll, in fine colors including metallic pigments such as silver, of the mining activities at the Ikuno silver mine. Silver was mined at the Ikuno

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