Daikon isshiki ryōri himitsubako 大根一式料理秘密箱 Comprehensive Secret Digest of Exceptional Radish Dishes

by KidodŌ 器土堂

$4,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Woodcut illus. in the text. 29.5 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. blue semi-stiff wrappers, orig. block-printed title label on upper cover label flaked , new stitching. Kyoto: Nishimura Ichi’uemon et al.; Edo, Osaka, & Ishū: colophon dated 1785. First edition of one of the earliest Japanese books on the daikon radish, with instructions on 20 ways to cut the vegetable and 30 ways to cook it. Little is known about Kidodō, but he may have learned his trade

• Binding: Wrappers

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