From the block-printed title label on upper cover: Rangyoku miyogiri shoshinsho Detailed Instructions & Selections of Music for the Miyogiri Flute

by Shakuhachi Flute

$15,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

One full-page woodcut illus. & music printing. 16 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title label on upper cover rubbed , new stitching. Japan : ca. 1684-1704. First edition and, apparently, unique; no copy is located in WorldCat or Union Catalogue of Japanese Books. The miyogiri is a type of shakuhachi, an end-blown three-node bamboo flute with five finger holes. The various types of shakuhachi flutes have been some of

• Binding: Wrappers

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