Okamoto Ipposhi 岡本一抱子

7 volumes (6 volumes plus supplement), 8vo (265 x 190mm.), text in "Kanbun" (Chinese-style Japanese), 16 full-page woodcut illustrations plus 25 full-page woodcuts in the supplement, original paper wrappers with printed labels, later stitching, modern blue buckram folding case, some worming, wrappers slightly worn

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First edition of this explanation of Hua Shou's classic text on acupuncture, which was first published in 1341 (for a later edition, see lot 78). Ipposhi was a seventeenth-century author of popular compendiums of classic medical works but it is thought that he was not a physician himself.