Setsuyoshu 節用集 Convenient & Useful Dictionary, a Vade Mecum

by Manjuya Hayashi Soji . Edited by Manjuya Hayashi Soji by Manjuya Bon

$85,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Eight vertical lines of text per page. 98 folding leaves. Oblong 8vo 144 x 206 mm. , orig. or very early dark thick wrappers, new stitching. Nara?: Manjuya Hayashi Soji, ca. 1532-73 . One of the earliest surviving setsuyoshu, the essential Japanese dictionary, “one of the mainstays of the publishing industry and…probably the most likely book to be found in a house of few books.”–Kornicki, The Book in Japan, p. 248. Widely used from the 15th

• Binding: Wrappers

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