Manuscripts
Otsubo Hon ryu igyo chikuyohin no maki [Otsubo Hon School: Foods for Horses]
- Description
- These manuscripts consist of eight veterinary medical works in twelve separate bound volumes. The volumes cover a variety of topics about the care and feeding of military horses including their physiology, medical treatments for diseases and injuries, including acupuncture, and their diet, including what to feed horses before battle. Several of the volumes contain illustrations. They are probably from the Late Edo Period.
- Production date
- 1800s.
- Call number
- mssHM 84069
- Provenance
- Purchased from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., August 2022.
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
- Rights
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