Iwaya Monogatari The Tale Of The Hut In The Rocks

$35,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Three finely illustrated handscrolls emakimono on fine smooth torinoko gold-sprinkled paper, with 16 finely executed brush & polychrome paintings, accompanying text in a fine calligraphic cursive hand, rich “golden mud” borders at top & bottom of each painting, speckled with cut gold leaf on reverse side. Three scrolls 323 x 11,640, 12,760, & 17,925 mm. , outer front endpaper covered with blue silk brocade with gold motifs, inner front endpapers of

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