Manuscript scroll on paper entitled “Kujirakata shosha zue” “Genuine copied illustrations of the whaling techniques of Taiji revealed from the source”

by Wakayama Prefecture Whaling Scroll, Taiji

$39,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Scroll 273 x 13,760 mm. . At end in trans. : “All the images are of the whaling at Taiji…April 1857, Tennojiya Shinsuke owned.” A remarkable, long, and vividly rendered whaling scroll, from Wakayama Prefecture, depicting the whaling activities in unusual detail, of the famous town of Taiji and its bay “Taiji ura” , the site of the annual dolphin slaughter, featured in the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary The Cove. Taiji has long been known as

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