Illustrated manuscript on paper, entitled “Hansho or Bansho kai” “Ryukyu Potatoes Explained”

by Sweet Potatoes

$3,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Six pages of color paintings of species of sweet potatoes. 14 folding leaves. 8vo 267 x 190 mm. , orig. decorated semi-stiff wrappers, stitched as issued, manuscript title label on upper cover. Japan : late Edo. Sweet potatoes are one of the glories of the Japanese table. The author of the text of this finely illustrated manuscript was the Nagasaki resident Tokitane Kohiga, mathematician and scholar of materia medica. The text was written in October

• Binding: Wrappers

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