Anpuku zukai trans.: Illustrated Account of Massage

by Shinsai Ota

$3,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

Numerous illus. in the text many full-page . 30 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. patterned wrappers rubbed & a little worn, some worming in blank upper margins , orig. block printed title label on upper cover, new stitching. Osaka: 1827. First edition. “The last monograph of importance on massage in old Japan was the Ampuku zukai, compiled and published by Shinsai Ota in 1827, which gave the technique of massage in text and illustrations.”–Mestler, A

• Binding: Wrappers

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