Beautiful Thick Antique Japanese Merchant Ledger with Rope Binding bisque Pretty curious

Pretty curious

where it might inspire all sorts of things

It is especially nice displayed where it can be seen from 360 degrees

1950s or so I would guess

they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio) and that three years later he was still celebrating her birth--and/or maybe it just took him that long to get around to it

Beautiful Thick Antique Japanese Merchant Ledger with Rope Binding bisque Pretty curiousThis is a an old Japanase merchant ledger book that I believe would be known as a daifuku cho, with sumi ink characters on the front and back covers, handwritten tabs dividing sections, and many of its many many pages filled with ink writing. It is bound at the top with rope; I believe the binding would also be used for hanging it, as I understand it such that it and other ledgers could be quickly gathered up if there was a fire or emergency. Later