A Vintage Accounting Book: Daifukucho

early twentieth century
9 1/2" x 7" x 1/2", 24 cm x 18 cm x 1.5 cm

This is a very nice daifukucho, a hand written book which could have originally been used for inventories, for accounting, for ledgers or as a record of loans.

This one is filled with many pages of hand writing done in sumi or charcoal-based ink.  One of its two abraded covers show hand written kanji or Chinese characters. 

A good example of a traditional daifukucho. 

Really attractive.