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Text in Japanese. S.l., n.d. 2 vols. 4to, contents sewn into blue decorative paper wraps. A hand-copied ehon, illustrated throughout with hand-colored woodcuts of falcons, feathers, shelter, implements, bait and traps. Some pages left partially blank, suggesting it was transcribed from a deteriorating work. Together with Circa eighteenth-century hand-copy from the documents of the Hosokawa family, with three woodcuts of falcon species, two anatomical, and eight woodcuts of bait in a similar hand to the 2 vols. above, uncolored, portions incomplete.


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