Eimyo doseki or Yomei doseki Ch.: Yongming Daoji; The Religious Activities of Yongming Yanshou

by Dahe, J.: Daiei or Daikaku

$4,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

32 fine full-page woodcuts. 42 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. blue wrappers wrappers rather rubbed, minor soiling , modern manuscript label on upper cover, new stitching. Japan : from the Japanese colophon on the penultimate leaf: “Nakano Zesui had the woodblocks carved & published this book mid-July 1655.” First edition to be published in Japan, printed in Chinese with Japanese reading marks. Yongming Yanshou J.: Eimei or Yomei Enju,

• Binding: Wrappers

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