Ketsugon jitsuron Mirror Illuminating the Provisional and the Real

by Saicho

$18,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

ca. 1617-18. 10 columns per page; 20 characters per column. 30 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. brown wrappers, cont. manuscript title label on upper cover, new stitching. Mount Hiei, outside of Kyoto: Enryakuji monastery complex, ca. 1617-18. First edition of this rare and important text no copy in WorldCat, Kawase, or NIJL , printed with movable wooden type. This is an uncommon example of an Eizan-ban, “editions published at the Enryakuji

• Binding: Wrappers

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