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TANJI, Yukiyoshi (1794-1848). Seventeen paintings of Japanese armor. Japan, c.1840. Small folio orihon album (272 x 190mm). 17 double-page paintings, 4 pages of calligraphic text (occasional scattered wormholes, but otherwise in excellent condition). Traditional orihon folding album with striped paper boards. Provenance : Boston Rare Books. A Japanese orihon manuscript containing historical armor designs. Tanji Yukiyoshi , also known as Masuoka Yukiyoshi, was a Japanese scholar whose works circulated in manuscript in the mid-nineteenth century. Several copies of a legal treatise by him are extant, as well as another work on traditional Japanese armor, held by the Iida City library in Nagano. The illustrations depict several centuries of armor styles from Feudal Japan, both front and back, with a high level of technical precision.