Mihara, Muneaki

人質變換:自在教育法圖解 [Jinshitsu henkan: jisai kyouikuhou zukai.] = The teaching by pictures the way of improving freely and easily the natural constitution of man

Yashima, Japan: Tetsuma Kyoko (?), 1888. Large folding broadside, 27.5 x 21 inches, text in Japanese; yellow cloth covers with some spotting, minor worming. Contemporary manuscript notes by a T. Oono on recto and verso. Very good in the original printed fukuro. The depiction of a head subdivided into 35 sections, each describing an aspect of human refinement that falls within the four categories of taste, opinion, comprehension, and deliberation. They probably derive from phrenological systems of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832), and from the charts published by their followers. Japanese Diet Library and Wellcome Library only in OCLC. None in the U.S. Item #51973

Price: $1,250.00