Japanese writing implements. Common Ink 1, imperial ink 2, official ink 3, pencil with seal 4, pounce-box 5, figures 6, hair brush 7, case 8, water phial 9, liquid ink 10, writing method 11, pencils 12,13 and ruler 14. After an illustration in Arnoldus Montanus's Atlas Japannensis, 1670, copied by Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature, Japan, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1823.

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