21 full-page black & gray brush drawings of styles of fences. 11 folding leaves. 8vo (245 x 166 mm.), orig. wrappers, stitched as issued. From the upper wrapper: “Hori no uchi Ueno shi” [“Mr. Ueno who resides in Hori no uchi”]. [Japan]: late Edo.

There are well over 100 different styles of bamboo fences (takegaki) in Japan, employed for many purposes. Our manuscript illustrates fences constructed from various parts of many kinds of bamboo (take) and the branches of bush clover (hagi) or a mixture of the two. They were primarily used for tea ceremony gardens where bamboo fences became... More

42; 32 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers (rubbed), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers (both labels partly defective), new stitching. Kyoto: Takemura Shinbei, 1698.

First edition to be printed in Japan of this collection of Chinese literary texts, with the Preface of Isshiki Tokei (or Maeda Tokei, 1673-1744), the Kyoto Confucian scholar who served the Yamashiro yodo fiefdom lord Noriyuki Ishikawa. The book is printed in kanbun with reading marks. It is rare, with no copy in WorldCat (we did find a copy in the Nagoya Tsurumai Library).

The texts are:

1. LI Jiweng 李濟翁 (or... More