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OKADA GYUKUZAN, OKA YUGAKU, OHARA TOYA MINSEI - Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].

OKADA GYUKUZAN, OKA YUGAKU, OHARA TOYA MINSEI - Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].
OKADA GYUKUZAN, OKA YUGAKU, OHARA TOYA MINSEI - Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].
Date: Osaka, Bunka 3, year of the tiger - 1806
Format: 225 x 180mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Original yellow paper wrappers, some soiling, with title and contents labels, the fourth one of which is a little bit defective, as shown the image. Thread partially untied, but binding is almost secure. As is often the case of this, impression is somewhat pale, but very fine copy. Some worming in volume 3.<br />6 vols., not bound in the 2nd sheet with issue date in the 1st volume.

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Published in Osaka, Kawachiya Genhichiro, et al. [8 book sellers], slightly later issue but apparently in Edo period, using all the same woodblocks of original first edition (Kawachiya Kichibei et al.[13 book sellers], Bunka 3 [1806]) ; 6 vols., not bound the 2nd sheet with issue date of 1st volume.
Very rare first edition, of the famous places of Qing dynasty in China, edited and illustrated by the Japanese artists Okada Gyokuzan (1737–1812), Oka Yugaku (1762–1833), and Ohara Toya (1771–1840).
Xylographic printing on mulberry paper. Text in Sino-Japanese with Japanese reading marks facilitating Japanese reading. The work is extensively illustrated with about 250 full-page woodcuts of which about 170 on double-page.
This work reflects the immense veneration of the Japanese educated classes towards Chinese culture.
This informative work is illustrated with historical and legendary scenes, topographical views, palaces, archaeological and sacred sites.
A map of China, including Korea is included as well as many city plans, for example of Peking, the Forbidden City and the Great Wall and its gates. Further there are illustrations of costumes, astronomical and musical instruments, the five holy Buddhist mountains, maps of major cities as well as the various provinces of the Qing Empire (1644-1912). Historical events and details from the classical literature are extensively explained. Many illustrations are related to the every-day life of the people, costumes, fire-arms.
Chinese musical instruments and astronomical instruments, imported or made by the Jesuits are also displayed.
The description of the cities refers to their architecture and archeological vestiges. Amongst the most interesting illustrations, let us mention a full map of the Qing Empire of China with Korea, another map of Peking, the Forbidden Imperial City with its impressive entrance gates, the imperial seals, the astronomical observatory of Peking established by the Jesuits Johann Adam Schall and Ferdinand Verbiest, the fascinating Great Wall with its numerous military observation posts.
See also : Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Western Travelers in China Discovering the Middle Kingdom (2009), no. 54.
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