[Rarebooks] FS: 18th C. Japanese Horsemanship

[Clare Murphy]

TSUNEHARU, KOBORI CHOJUN .  SUIBA SENKIN HEN (HORSEMANSHIP 
UNDERWATER). Edo., 1759. Illustrated by one double-page full color 
plate and three with a bit of color. Most plates show equipment but 3 
depict the warriors and their battles in the river on horseback. 
Paper boards on native paper. Near fine. In around 1700 the founder 
of Kobori ryu Tosuijutsu, Muraoka Idayu Masafumi, founded his own 
tradition at the Tenjin Gulf on the Shirakawa. He was succeeded as 
teaching master at the Tenjin Gulf by his son Kobori Chojun 
Tsuneharu.. This volume is the oldest treatise on horsemanship 
underwater in the Japanese language. This system of natation was 
practiced as part of the martial training of the clan's warriors at 
their purpose built educational facility, the Jishukan, right up 
until the Meiji Restoration in 1758 with a text on the handling of 
horses entitled Suiba Senkin Hen. Very rare. $1600.00

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