Two Finely Illustrated Scrolls With 35 Paintings In Ink Many Colors Of Wash Entitled Ezoto Kikan

by Ainu People Of Hokkaido

$15,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Two scrolls 300 x 9110 mm. & 300 x 9540 mm. , silk brocade outer endpaper, wooden core rollers. Japan: copied ca. 1818-43 . Japan’s large-scale colonization of Hokkaido Island “Ezo” began in the mid-18th century. Hata 1764-1808 , a Tokugawa bakufu official who served in Hokkaido from 1798 to 1800, wrote a self-illustrated text concerning the ethnology of the Ainu, the aboriginal inhabitants of the island; it is the earliest work on the

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