Manuscript on finest gampi paper, entitled on manuscript label on upper cover “Nijo dai gyoko...
19 leaves. Small 4to (237 x 175 mm.), orig. golden silk brocade over boards, bound tetsuyoso-style in two quires, each page beautifully painted with different watery landscape scenes adorned with flowers, grasses, & bushes, clouds & sprays of mist, using kindei (“golden mud”) & golden speckles, & finely textured gold-speckled paste-down endpapers at front & back. [Japan]: ca. 1684-89?
A very beautifully executed manuscript of this famous collection of waka poetry, calligraphically written by Koresue Imadegawa (1660-1709), court nobleman and major counselor (Dainagon, 1684-89), renowned as a master of calligraphy and for his skill in playing the biwa (Japanese lute). This manuscript is written on the finest torinoko... More