Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf “Goyuijo gohozoiri hyakkajo “The One Hundred Articles of Testimony”

by Ieyasu Tokugawa

$2,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

17 folding leaves. 8vo 265 x 191 mm , orig. patterned wrappers with paintings on each cover, old stitching. On the antepenultimate page, in a later hand using red ink in trans.: “Yakushiji Temple Horinin…copied August 1795.” An important text, which has been shrouded in secrecy for several centuries. Manuscript copies, such as the present example, were quietly made, but the Legacy of Ieyasu was not published until the early 19th

• Binding: Wrappers

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