Zōfu keiraku shōkai 臓腑経絡詳解 [Organs & Their Meridians Explained].
Numerous full-page woodcut illus. many finely hand-colored or heightened in color. Six vols. (final volume is an Addendum). Small 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, orig. block-printed title label on each upper cover (the first label not present), new stitching. Kyoto & Edo: Nishimura Ichiroemon 西村市郎右衛門 et al., 1690.
First edition and very rare; WorldCat locates no copy. Okamoto (active 1685-1733), was a Japanese author who wrote a series of popular explanations of contemporary medical works and earlier medical classics from China. He came from a family of physicians and had studied Chinese medical books. This appears to be Okamoto’s... More