Shinmeisho or Kannabumi 神名書 Scripts from the Age of the Gods

by Mitsunaga 藤原充長 Fujiwara

$3,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

23 pages of Jindai moji. 16 folding leaves, one leaf of ads. 8vo, orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers, title-slip, new stitching. Itano: from the colophon in trans. : “Woodblocks owned by Omiya Hachiman shrine, July 1779.” First edition and rare; no copy in WorldCat. As a matter of national and cultural pride, a theory developed during the Kamakura period that in the prehistoric mythical “age of the gods,” writing systems had been developed. These

• Binding: Wrappers

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