Acupuncture.- Jinshin Gozo No Zu; Ôjin Meido No Zu; Sokujin Meido No Zu; Fukujin Meido No Zu, 4 large rolled wood-block print scrolls, browned, one or two tiny areas of loss, contemporary Japanese wooden scroll mounts with contemporary silk wrapping cords, laid into recent Japanese wooden box, v.s., Tokyo, Musashi Toyoshima, 1662.

⁂ A complete set of four seventeenth-century Tokugawa hanging scrolls demonstrating the Japanese art of acupuncture. They illustrate the organs, meridians and meridial points in front, side, rear and internal depictions of the human figure.

Provenance: Jean Blondelet, collector of Chinese and Japanese medical texts, his sale Tajan, 23 October 2001.