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Sakai Yoshitane

San Jijitsu. Japanese Coloured Woodblock Prints on Sericulture (Making of Silk).

Toshundo, Meiji 6,

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Lugar de impresión
Osaka
Autor
Sakai Yoshitane
Editores
Toshundo, Meiji 6
Materia
, Asia Foreign Language Books
Idiomas
Inlgés

Descripción

A rare nineteenth century Japanese tutorial on sericulture (the making of silk), including details on the silk worms from which the fine thread is harvested, produced in woodblock print. 8vo. 3 volumes, 209 pages combined, with publisher's details to red frontis leaf. The complete text, including 31 full page wood printed illustrations - the first three being beautifully hand coloured. Traditional karitoji binding ("semi-bound" meaning title page and contents without a book cover) string-stitched at spine, fukurotoji style ("bound-pocket" with folded leafs bound into spine), and opening from left to right. Yellow paper covers, titled in manuscript ink to verso. Each volume with a red ink stamp to the first text leaf. All text is in Japanese. Each volume measures approximately 15 x 22 cm. Housed together in purpose-made three-panel folding portfolio, blue cloth boards with working bone clasps, measuring approximately 16,5 x 23 x 3,5 cm. Ink blemishes to two of the illustrations, quite likely a printing mishap, minor age-toning primarily to boards, otherwise very good and original condition, a pleasing historic work dealing with silk production in Japan. Beginning with three lovely hand-coloured woodcut illustrations, the first volume describes the coveted miniscule Bombyx mori that creates the delicate strands that are used to produce the world's finest fabric. It goes on to explain the process, how to lay the eggs on a sheet of paper, the importance of harvesting mulberry leaves to feed the larvae, transferring grown silkworms to other bamboo mats to feed them, and the multiple tools needed for the job at hand. Fieldwork is the focus of the second and largest volume, which demonstrates the arduous task of planting and maintaining a mulberry plantation, which will ultimately determine the health of the silkworms and one's profitability. In the third volume, we see men gathering twigs and women loosely weaving these into safe-havens for the silkworms to settle comfortable. The cocoons are placed on round trays, and eventually the silkworm moth fly away after hatching. Various stages of preparing the thread are shown, for example stretching the silk floss hand-spinning the thread from cocoons sitting in a pan of boiling water. A merchandising scene concludes the illustrations.