Taikai or Daie 大會 libretto for the Noh play

by KŌEtsu Utai Bon 光悦謡本 from the Saga Press

$25,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

14 pages of text & two pages forming paste-downs of varying shades of pale pink & cream gofun biki torinoko mica-printed paper, all printed with mica patterns, endpapers printed with mica patterns of plum flowers on branches & autumnal weeds, bound in two “quires” & sewn together. Small 4to 240 x 180 mm. , orig. pale gray semi-stiff wrappers with mica woodblock-printed designs of hydrangea leaves, orig. printed label on upper cover. Saga, near Kyoto:

• Binding: Wrappers

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