Broadside On Paper 228 X 334 Mm Mounted On A Hanging Scroll Printed With Wooden Movable Type

by Shoka Sonjuku Movable Type Broadside

$12,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Shoka Sonjuku Academy, Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture: Printed by in trans. “movable type ,” 1858. An extremely rare and unusual example of movable wooden type printing in Japan. Movable type books enjoyed a considerable popularity in Japan in the first four decades of the 17th century, but gradually this technology withered away in favor of xylography. The use of wooden movable type was revived again in the late 18th century for small private

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