Shinshū sosetsu 慎終疏節 Simple Ceremonies for the Final Send-off

by Tekisai 中村惕斎 Nakamura

$6,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

12 full-page hand-colored woodcut illus. each with several figures, some with text & one black & white full-page illus. 61 folding leaves. Four parts in one vol. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title label on upper cover, new stitching. Japan, probably Kyoto : Preface dated 1690.First edition, and very rare, of this work on funerary rites by Nakamura 1629-1702/03 , written in classical Chinese with Japanese kunten reading marks.

• Binding: Wrappers

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