Ehon kufū no nishiki 絵本工夫之錦 Ingenious Ways to Understand Wasan, Illustrated

by Sukeyuki 船山輔之 Funayama

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First edition

Numerous attractive woodcut illus. in the text. 22; 23; 23 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig semi-stiff patterned wrappers, title-slips, new stitching. Edo & Nagoya: Suharaya Ichibei 須原屋市兵衛 et al. Preface in Vol. I dated 1795, colophons dated 1798.First edition, a complete set, and rare; we find no copy of our original edition in WorldCat. Funayama 1738-1804 was a disciple of Yamaji Nushizumi 1704-73 in the school of wasan

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