[Rarebooks] OFFER: FINEST MODERN FENG SHUI WORK.

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KENBUN OJIMA:  KASOU SHINPEN[Physiognomy of a house] [Feng Shui]. Meiji,34; 
[1901], 3 publishers inTokyo. Japanese Woodblock print BOOK. First Edition. 
II Volumes, 24 cm., TP, 37 sheets, 64 sheets; 3, 4, closing colophon. 
Original boards, title slips. Included is a collotype portrait of the 
author in volume I,. Volume II from page 3 to 52 is all illustrations 
diagraming the Feng Shui of a house in detail. Besides being the most 
graphic representations of Feng Shui [ the divination of the auspiciousness 
of a house based on its position in the landscape]  in any Chinese of 
Japanese book I have ever seen, they are also the most detailed references. 
Kenbun was very famous in his own day, and was the pre-eminent figure in 
this field, which is still considered a science in the newly created Pudong 
district [of skyscrapers] in Shanghai, for example. Unnoted in OCLC, RLIN, 
Harvard Yenching. A Fine copy. $500.00

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