Two finely illustrated handscrolls on fine paper related to star worship, the first entitled at...
Numerous fine paintings & diagrams throughout, using blue, green, red, gray, yellow, much gold, silver, & flesh-colored pigments. Siddham script in several places. Two scrolls (185 x 17,660 mm.; 175 x 9210 mm.), each with gold-speckled inner endpapers at front, dark blue paper on outsides. At the end of the first scroll, a note states these texts were first written in 1192 (Kenkyū 建久 3) & copied on an auspicious day in the 12th month of Genna 元和 5 (this part of Genna 5 corresponds to 1620); the second scroll is also dated at end “the 12th month of Genna... More