Finely Illustrated Manuscript On Paper Entitled On First Leaf Shaka No Honji The Life Of Shakamuni

by Life Of Sakyamuni J Shakamuni

$22,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

23 folding several double-page finely colored paintings of scenes of Buddha’s life. 50; 40; 51 folding leaves of text. Three vols. Large 8vo 272 x 198 mm. , modern wrappers, covered with beige silk, gold-speckled endpapers, stitched. Japan : mid-Edo. A finely illustrated manuscript of the life of Buddha. Our manuscript is unusual for its large number of images 23 folding or double-page paintings ; most surviving manuscripts have far fewer. The

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