UNSIGNED, EDO PERIOD (EARLY-MID 19TH CENTURY)

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An Illustrated Scroll of Gold and Silver Mining
Unsigned, Edo Period (Early-Mid 19th Century)
Showing the various stages of extraction, panning, refining, manufacture, assaying and marketing, with numerous explanatory captions, ink and colours on paper with inscriptions, remounted, fitted wood box
36ft 11in. x 11in. (1127 x 28cm.)

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拍品專文

This long scroll shows all the stages and processes of mining for gold and silver, almost certainly in the island of Sado; a small number of similar scenes from a work entitled Sashu kingin saisei zenzu [Complete illustrations of gold and silver mining and processing in Sado] are reproduced in a recent textbook on the history of Japanese metallurgy.¹

1 Amakasu Ken and others (ed.), Saiko to yakin [Mining and metallurgy], Koza Nihon gijutsu no shakaishi [A course of the history of Japanese technology and society], vol. 5 (Tokyo, 1983), pp. 190, 191, 200, 201 etc.