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Banpō zensho : Volume 3

1770 · Edo : Suharaya Mohē ; Ōsaka : Zōgeya Jirobē : Tsurugaya Kuhē · 28 pictures

A Japanese woodblock-printed volume from 1770, published in Edo and Osaka by several booksellers, covering Chinese and Japanese antiquities and seal stamps. The pages pair dense columns of black vertical kana and kanji text with boxed seal impressions in red and black, arranged in rows and clusters that could suggest a stamp or emblem grid.

Antiquities · Japan · China

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