Illustrated manuscript on paper, signed “Yashiro Nakagawa” on the first leaf

by Soba Noodles

$4,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

One full-page & three double-page brush drawings in black & gray. 12 leaves, mostly folding. 8vo 243 x 160 mm. , orig. hand-drawn pictorial wrappers a little stained & worn , stitched as issued, label on upper cover “Soba narabini kendon no yurai” “Notes on Soba & Origins of the Word Kendon . Japan: at end “copied 1833” . A fascinating and nicely illustrated manuscript on soba noodles, with a history, recipes, and related stories. The

• Binding: Wrappers

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