Manuscript on paper, entitled “Ōmin zui” 奥民図彙 “Collection of Illustrations of the People in Tsugaru”

by Sadahiko 比良野貞彦 Hirano

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Many fine brush & ink illus. one in color washes . 72 folding leaves. 8vo 250 x 173 mm. , orig. wrappers a little frayed around the edges , new stitching. Japan : after 1788. A richly illustrated manuscript of an unpublished geographical and ethnographical treatise on Tsugaru, the western part of what is now Aomori prefecture in northernmost Honshū. Referred to here as Ō in reference to Mutsu 陸奥 province, to which it belonged and

• Binding: Wrappers

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