Calligraphic Manuscript On Fine Torinoko Paper Entitled On Gold Paper Label On Upper Cover

by Attributed Author Fujiwara No Teika

$5,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

29 folding leaves. 8vo 229 x 156 mm. , later semi-stiff silk-brocade-covered wrappers covers a bit wormed , gold- & silver-speckled endpapers, old stitching. Japan : on final leaf in trans. : “3 August 1483.” A beautiful and fine calligraphic manuscript of “Guhishō,” a text on waka poetic theory that, along with “Gukenshō” 愚見抄, “Sangoki” 三五記, and “Kirihioke” 桐火桶, made up the writings collectively referred

• Binding: Wrappers

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