Dainihon meibutsu zukushi 大日本名物尽 Specialty Products of All the Regions of Japan

by ŌRaimono 往来物

$1,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Color-printed illus. on each page. 19.5; 20.5 folding leaves. 12mo 126 x 93 mm. , orig. finely woodblock color-printed pictorial wrappers, new stitching. Japan : mid-Edo. A splendid and beautifully preserved example of an illustrated ōraimono, a book of popular learning. “Another very substantial market, which catered to the growing need and demand for literacy, was that for the popular educational works known as ōraimono. These have

• Binding: Wrappers

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