Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf “Goyuijo [gohozoiri] hyakkajo [“The One Hundred Articles of...
17 folding leaves. 8vo (265 x 191 mm), orig. patterned wrappers with paintings on each cover, old stitching. On the antepenultimate page, in a later hand using red ink in trans.: “Yakushiji Temple Horinin…copied August 1795.”
An important text, which has been shrouded in secrecy for several centuries. Manuscript copies, such as the present example, were quietly made, but the Legacy of Ieyasu was not published until the early 19th century.
Ieyasu Tokugawa (1543-1616) “left behind him a document, called the Legacy of Ieyasu, which to those desirous of studying the character and motives of the founder of the Tokugawa... More