The manashi-katama or meshless basket

by Shinji Nishimura

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Tokyo: Society of Naval Architects, 1928. First edition, large, slim 8vo, pp. 6 , 60, 2 ; vignette title page, 7 plates and 16 illustrations in the text; generally fine in original printed beige paper-covered boards. Issued as Part IV, Section 1 of Vol. V in the publisher's A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan series. Includes basket-boats in ancient China, modern basket-boats in French Indo-China, Japanese myths connected with basket-boats, etc. Item #29221

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