Seicha zukai 製茶圖解 Tea Production, Illustrated

by Hikone Han 彦根藩

$2,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

1871. One double-page & 19 full-page woodcut illus. 18 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. yellow wrappers a little marked , orig. title-slip on upper cover, new stitching. Hikone han: Preface dated 1871. First edition, issued by the Hikone han fiefdom in today’s Shiga Prefecture, one of the first regions in Japan to cultivate tea trees. This is a rare book. In the beginning of the Meiji era, the nation’s leaders settled on silk and green tea as the

• Binding: Wrappers

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