Two Scrolls The First Finely Illustrated Each Entitled In Manuscript On Gold Paper Labels On Outer

by Emperor Gomizunoo S Visit To Nijo Castle

$8,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Two scrolls 284 x 10,460 mm.; 10,950 mm., including front endpapers , speckled gold inner endpapers, outer endpapers covered in green silk with gold patterns. Japan : at the end of the second scroll in trans. : “copied in 1830 by Chuwa Matsumura, having borrowed it from the family of Yahata” ?, our reading is uncertain, perhaps the family that lived in Awa Province, today’s Tokushima Prefecture . These fine and handsome scrolls depict and

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