Sasa no mi ki 竹實記 Record of the Seeds of the Bamboo

by author Haku’Un Sanjin 白雲山人, Kiyoharu 菱川清春 Hishikawa, artist

$3,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Three double-page woodcut illus. 12 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. wrappers embossed with bamboo motifs, orig. printed label quite rubbed , orig. stitching. Kyōto: Kanaya yoshibe’e 金屋吉兵衛, 1832. First edition of this book arguing for the use of bamboo grass Sasa veitchii as a food source. The book is rare, with only one copy in North America. “In the spring of Tenpō 3 1832 , Sasa veitchii flowered and ripened in

• Binding: Wrappers

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