| Summary: | Michael Laird, bookseller, description: Original fukurotoji binding, stitched (some worming, large stain to lower cover and persistent through half of the text at outer margin). Fine manuscript copy of a very rare printed book, created around Horeki 6 [1709], with illustrations of 48 species of hawks and falcons (and two owls). The text includes 23 "points" on the names of hawks and falcons, the environments they live in, how to breed them, and how to care for them. The anonymous author states that hawking and falconry was practiced in China during the Han and Tang dynasties (i.e., from B.C. 206 and from A.D. 618), and that it was introduced into Japan in the forty-seventh year of the Empress Tingu (A.D. 244) from Hakusai, in Korea, and again in the forty-second year of the Emperor Nintoku (A.D. 355), who was the first really to hunt with hawks.
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