A Large Format Scroll On Paper Entitled On Manuscript Paper Label On Outside Tsukuri Giku Oyoso

by Chrysanthemum Scroll

$4,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Scroll 385 x 8590 mm. , inner front endpaper with rich sprays of gold, outer side covered with silk having a repeating pattern of the chrysanthemum flower, wooden core roller. Japan: late Edo . The chrysanthemum came from China to Japan as a medicinal plant in the Nara period 710-93 and soon became revered in Japanese culture as a symbol of longevity and rejuvenation. From the Kamakura period 1192-1333 to this day, the chrysanthemum has been the

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