Illustrated handscroll on paper, entitled at beginning “Unzushō” 雲図鈔 “Events Captured Above the Clouds” or “Manual of Court Ceremonies & Protocols”

by Shigetaka 藤原重隆 Fujiwara

$12,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

31 fine & detailed brush and green- & yellow-wash illus. Scroll 363 x 18,300 mm. , 21 joined sheets, with explanatory text written on both sides, wooden core roller. Japan : at end of text on reverse side in trans. : “Gathered by Fujiwara Tamechika 藤原為親 d. 1172 in 1160 and Postscript written in mid-Spring 1170 by Fujiwara Chikamasa 藤原親雅 1145-1210 ”; this is a later copy, probably mid-Edo. The Heian period 794-1185 is considered

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