Illustrated manuscript on paper, entitled “Shoryo shuen jojuki” “Comprehensive Survey of Emperors’ Mausoleums”

by Kotaku Hosoi, or Chishin or Tomochika

$18,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

60 double-page two have flaps & several single-page illus., using brush & washes of many colors. 30; 31.5; 31 folding leaves. Three vols. Large 8vo 308 x 210 mm. , orig. decorated semi-stiff boards, manuscript titles on upper covers, new stitching. Japan : Author’s Prefaces dated 1699 & 1709; Postfaces by Nobutomo Ban dated 1813 & 1841. A most interesting and attractively illustrated manuscript. In the late 17th century, the brother of Kotaku

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