An antique Japanese store ledger, almost 15 inches long, apparently used to keep accounts for customers with text struck with a line and 0 to indicate that the account has been paid. It has not been professionally translated but the top half (above the strike line) appears to include numbers with text below including words such as "rice" and "vinegar". With hand-painted, bold sumi ink lettering on the covers, one side apparently being the shop name. Uncut pages throughout, with handwriting on both sides of pages, completely full, with no.....
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Mt. Omei (also Emei) in China has been a major religious site and "holy mountain" for over fifteen hundred years. Early Western visitors wrote descriptions of their experiences with the site, but Dryden Phelps (Professor of English Literature at West China Union University) went much further and translated the Mount Emei Illustrated Handbook, a Chinese-language guide first published in 1891. This 1936 translation and "new edition" features the original Chinese text with an English translation and annotations below. The original woodblock plates from the original guide were destroyed or missing.....
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