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Or 12440
- Record Id:
- 032-003080794
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003080794
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025782783.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165267772.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12440
- Title:
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Taishokan [Taishokkan] 大織冠
- Scope & Content:
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‘The Great Embroidered Cap’. A kōwakamai (recitative dance) of unknown authorship composed during the Muromachi Period (1333-1573). The text tells the story of Kōhakunyo,the daughter of Fujiwara Kamatari, a powerful noble of the 7th century and the only individual to hold the court rank of ‘Taishokan’ from which the story takes its title. Reports of the princess’s beauty reach the Emperor of China who asks to marry her. Once installed at the Chinese court she sends gifts back to Japan to the tutelary temple of the Fujiwara family, including a precious jewel. The jewel is stolen en route by the Dragon King but eventually retrieved from his undersea palace by a female diver (ama). She is killed just as she regains the surface but the jewel is recovered.
The manuscript is undated but is probably from the late Muromachi-early Edo Period (c.1560-1640)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003080794
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003080794
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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3 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165267772.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1560
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- 1560-1640
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Nara ehon. 3 volumes (44 folios. Vol.1 : 15 ff., vol. 2: 13 ff., vol. 3: 16 ff.). Generally 11 lines of text per page. Height of text: 272 mm
Materials: ink and colour on ganpi paper
Dimensions: 315 x 230 mm
Illustrations: 16 single-page and 4 double-page Tosa-style illustrations (vol. 1: 8 ill., vol. 2: 4 ill., vol.3: 8 ill.)
Binding: fukurotoji style binding. Dark brown cloth covers. Title slips on upper lefthand side of each volume decorated with lozenges of gold leaf. In broacade chitsu case with floral patterns
Seals: '洛住判事神原甚持本' (square red seal) and ' 神原家圖書記' (black vertical seal) on first folio of each volume
- Custodial History:
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Formerly owned by Kanbara Kanzō 神原甚造 (1884-1954)
- Former Internal References:
- Or 62 c
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Isseidō, Tokyo 1960
- Publications:
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For a translation of one version of the Taishokan story, see Melanie Trede, Image, Text and Audience: The Taishokan Narrative in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period (Peter Lang, 2003)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)