Finely written manuscript on paper of Shuo fu lüe 說郛畧 Outline of Shuo fu

by Zongyi 陶宗儀 Tao

$15,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

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Brush & ink drawings in several vols. Ca. 1500 folding leaves. Ten vols. Thick 8vo 280 x 195 mm. , later wrappers, new stitching. Japan : from the final leaf of Vol. 10 in approximate trans. : “The Buddhist practitioner Banjin copied this in Kinko in today’s Kagoshima Prefecture in 1721. I visited Banjin in 1737 and had conversations with him, signed Soko.” Manuscript excerpts dating from after 1646, taken from Shuo fu 說郛, a

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