Illustrated manuscript on paper, entitled on upper wrapper “Ha mono shū” 葉物集 “Flower Arrangements, Gathered Information”

by Flower Arrangement

$3,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

56 fine brush, ink, and gray-wash drawings in the text. 24.5 folding leaves. 8vo 276 x 196 mm. , orig. semi-stiff yellow patterned wrappers, new stitching. Japan : late Edo. Zeshinken 是心軒 1734–80 , scholar monk, was a master of ikebana 生け花 flower arrangement and created a school — the Shōgetsudō koryū 松月堂古流 — devoted to this art which still exists and thrives . He devised a seika 生花 form based

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