Yamato eyoshu trans.: Collection of Traditional Japanese-style Wood Carving Patterns

by Tomifusa Tachikawa

$3,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Numerous woodcuts in the text, mostly full-page. Four vols. Large 8vo, orig. blue wrappers some mostly marginal worming bound in orihon style accordion , block-printed title labels on each upper cover. Tokyo: Suharaya Mohe, 1763. First edition of this important and handsomely illustrated work on Japanese-style wood-carved motifs and patterns which stem from the “Tachikawa or Tatekawa Ryu” school of design, decoration, and building techniques.

• Binding: Wrappers

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