詞乃直路 =Kotoba no Tadaji The straight path to words

by Naoatsu Yamada

$85 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Tokyo: Gyokugandou, Mid 1800s . 2 volumes, 39 and 43 leaves, 5 preliminary material and the rest containing conjugation charts for around 700 terms. Bound in the Japanese manner in blue paper covers and paper labels; light wear to covers, string binding renewed, very good. A Japanese grammar. The author's preface is dated Tenpou 12 1840 , though given the nature of woodblock printing and the lack of a proper colophon it is difficult to say if this is the date

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