Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of text “Shōkaku fugō.”

by ShŌKaku FugŌ 省画符号, Japanese Shorthand

$2,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

18 folding leaves. 8vo 262 x 186 mm. , orig. brown wrappers, new stitching. Japan : late 19th century. “At the end of the Edo period Japanese ambassadors traveling abroad noted the presence of stenographers during their interviews, and after the Meiji Restoration a few Western books on shorthand appeared in Tokyo bookstores and in the private libraries of government secretaries. On several occasions in the first two decades of Meiji, individuals or

• Binding: Wrappers

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