Full-page woodcut port. of Confucius & diagrams in Vol. III. 61; 53; 92 folding leaves. Three vols. Large 8vo (281 x 198 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers, orig. title-slips, new stitching. From colophon at end of Vol. III: Fushimi: Jigen 慈眼, 1599.

The first printed Fushimi ban edition; like all editions from this press, this is an extremely rare book, and WorldCat lists only one copy, at Columbia. Fushimi ban books, printed with wooden movable type, were created at the printing works at Fushimi, Kyoto, which had been established by Ieyasu (1542-1616), the first shogun of the Edo era. Genkitsu 元佶... More