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Show 12 KAMISUKI CHOHO-K The olde: buoL in the japmese langudgL relating to the craft o editionof thiswork was published abou Jihyoe Kunihigashi mhe:rwnsc Jihyoe Kokuto, a paper merd] 1antof|w.xm| Thc illustration made by the Settsu Meisho and the well-kno (hulh of the exghlecnth century). The ancestors of ' dnm ]xhyo igashi, or Kokuto, were native of Wasada in the Principalit n( B" \go Later they moved to Kunizaki of the same princip: allty changing their suname to l\umlnga:hl During the Tokugawa Period n in the province of Iwami, where it i il a o T CAME e b not certain, some placing it the latter part of the Genroku Era (1688 1704 A.D.), while others are inclined to bleLve that he was born i jihyoe I\umlngasl owesits development to Kunihigashi. The first edition of "Kamisak Shoho-Ki" was published sometime dunng the Kwvansci Era (17898ot 4.0)Whsh coritponi o the 11t Tokugawa Dynasty. It is no s e tomb is 1ocatcd in the village of Yasuda in the provi September, the 13th year of Taisho, a group of p erected a monument to the memory of this Japanese papermaking. A facsimile reprint has been made in Japa by Mr. Horikoshi of Osaka, also a reproduction of this old treatis has been produced in Germany KANSHI K Chinese paper Al rights reserved |