Ryūkyū kaigo 琉球解語 The Ryukyu Procession & Culture Revealed

by Shukō 冨岡手暠 Tomioka

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First edition

Eight-page woodcut of a procession and one double-page & four full-page woodcut illus. .5, 18, .5 folding leaves. Oblong 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, most of title-slip perished, new stitching. Edo: Wakasaya Yoichi 若狭屋與市, 1850. First edition, illustrated by Utagawa Hiroshige towards the end of his celebrated career. This is an illustrated account of the 1850 final embassy of the Ryukyu kingdom to Edo, an obligatory procession made in the name

• Binding: Wrappers

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