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Or 12690
- Record Id:
- 032-003080821
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003080821
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025782959.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165002942.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12690
- Title:
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Taishokan [Taishokkan] 大織冠
- Scope & Content:
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‘The Great Embroidered Cap’. Title on title slip : たいしよくわん
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.
This manuscript contains only the latter part of the story, a companion scroll (or codex) with the other half having been lost. It is undated but was probably written in the late Muromachi Period-early Edpo Period (c.1580-1620)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003080821", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 12690: Taishokan [Taishokkan] 大織冠" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003080821
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003080821
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 scroll
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165002942.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1580
- End Date:
- 1620
- Date Range:
- 1580-1620
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: although now a scroll, the presence of a folds in the middle of each sheet of paper indicate that this was originally bound as a book in orihon format.
Materials: ink and colour on paper
Dimensions: 330 x 13566 mm
Illustrations: 16 colour illustrations
Binding: dark blue brocade cover with embroidered chrysanthemum pattern in gold. Original title slip badly rubbed
Seals: '藤原行長' (square red seal) at end of the scroll. This is a fake seal ascribing authorship to Fujiwara Yukinaga (fl. 1221), the alleged author of Heike monogatari
- Custodial History:
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Formerly owned by Kanbara Kanzō 神原甚造 (1884-1954)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Isseidō 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)
For a detailed description of this manuscript see: Hizō Nihon bijutsu taikan. 4, Daiei Toshokan, Ashumorian Bijutsukan, Vikutoria Arubāto Hakubutsukan 秘蔵日本美術大観. 4, 大英図書館, アシュモリアン美術館, ヴィクトリア・アルバート博物館 , ed. by Hirayama Ikuo 平山郁夫 and Kobayashi Tadashi 小林忠 (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1994), pp. 87-88
- Exhibitions:
- Love, Fight, Feast: The World of Japanese Narrative Art, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 10 September 2021 - 5 December 2021
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)