Manuscript On Paper Entitled On Upper Wrapper Dochu Jinba Dachin Cho Ledger Of Horse Porter Prices

by Tokaido Road Post Stations

$2,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Written on all four sides of each sheet. 22 sheets, each folded length-wise 460 x 153 mm. in half, stitched at head, allowing it to be hung on the wall. Japan : on label on upper cover in trans. : dated “1804-29.” The 53 relay stations on the Tōkaidō road between Edo and Kyoto were required to keep careful ledgers recording the fees and assignments for packhorses and porters. The prices were regulated by the shogunate and were charged

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