SENDAI KANOKO The Fawn in Sendai

by Sendai Kanoko

$13,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Manuscript on paper with one map, 14 full-page, & about 20 smaller illus., finely drawn in brush & various colors. 53 folding leaves. 8vo 295 x 195 mm. , orig. blue wrappers rubbed & a little worn , manuscript label on upper cover with “Sendai Kanoko” written, new stitching. Japan : from final page in trans. “copied 1839.” The earliest survey of the wealthy Sendai fiefdom — known as the Sendai Kanoko — was prepared in 1695. At that

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