Hokkai shidai shomon Chinese: Fa jie ci di chu men; Introduction to the Sequence of the Boundaries of the Dharma

by Zhiyi

$15,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Ten columns, 20 characters per column. 34; 33; 42 folding leaves. 8vo 270 x 193 mm. , orig. pale brown wrappers some relatively minor worming, mostly confined to the margins, but occasionally touching a character , new stitching. Mount Hiei: before 1625 . A very rare movable type Eizan-ban; WorldCat and the Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books do not record a copy. Kawase knows only of another edition with 19 characters per column, dated

• Binding: Wrappers

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