Woodblock, carved on both sides, of an advertising flyer issued

by the courier service Kago roku かご六, owned by the Kagoya family 籠屋 & located in Nara & Osaka by Japanese Woodblock

$1,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Woodblock 218 x 168 mm. . Japan : late Edo. This text of this woodblock, accompanied by recent print-offs of both sides on two sheets of paper, announces the new office locations of the courier service Kago roku, which transported both valuables and goods between the Nara and Osaka regions. The flyer announces that the younger generation had succeeded in the business and were able to deliver day and night. We learn that they were capable of transporting

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