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An illustrated mirror of hawking: the Ehon taka kagami = Ehon taka kagami

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    • Ehon takakagami
    • 絵本鷹かがみ

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"An Illustrated Mirror of Hawking is a translated, facsimile reprint of Kawanabe Tōiku's woodcut print picture book on falconry, Ehon takakagami (Mirror of Hawking). The first proper translation ever accomplished, the meaning of the script accompanying each woodcut illustration plate can now be known to non-Japanese readers. In addition to fully reprinting the original images and texts, this edition includes contextual essays by Karl-Heinz Gersmann, Keiya Nakajima, and Alain Briot, and reference images that provide important background information about Kyōsai, the history of Japanese falconry, and the origins of this unique publication"-- Provided by publisher.

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    Boise, Idaho: The Archives of Falconry, 2025

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    9798987929377

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    • Includes a facsimile reprint of an edition in two parts (five physical volumes) of Kyōsai's work--likely published between 1863 and 1879 under his early art name Kawanabe Tōiku--held at the Bibliotheca Falconaria K.H. Gersmann of the Archives of Falconry, Boise, Idaho. Accompanied by an English translation by Jobst-Matthias Spannagel and Kuniko Numazaki based on the transcribed text of the 1985 edition published by the Kawanabe Kyōsai Memorial Museum in Warabi, Saitama, Japan.
    • The facsimile reprint is printed in traditional right-to-left format, beginning at the back of the book.

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