MS Japanese 17

Date:
18th century
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Description

A manuscript concerning acupuncture executed on fine torinoko paper, probably in the eighteenth century, and includes two sets of polychrome hand-painted illustrations of acupunctural points on the human body probably copied from a Chinese work.

Publication/Creation

Japan, 18th century

Physical description

Material: paper; 1冊 | 1 volume; binding dimensions: height 240mm, width 180mm

Acquisition note

Purchased by the Wellcome Library from Probsthain's on 23rd October 1911. (Accession number 27007)

Hand note

朱筆校正.
Revisions made to work in red ink.

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