CONFUCIANISM.

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Manuscript copy of Yu Chunggyo's Sarye Holgi ("Ritual Procedures of the Four Major Ceremonies"). Evidence of the persistence of Confucian ritual practice in modernizing Korea. The author, Yu Chunggyo (1832-1893), was a learned Neo-Confucian literatus. His text, prescribing correct conduct for weddings, funerals, and other private and public occasions, was first printed in 1904.Provenance: Sam Fogg, Catalogue 19, 1998, Number 75 - Martin Schøyen (b. 1940), the Norwegian manuscript collector, with his label on the inner rear cover and annotated tag tied to a secondary binding cord.

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