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Or 12570
- Record Id:
- 032-003080834
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003080834
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025785902.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100166052498.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12570
- Title:
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Iwaya いわや
- Scope & Content:
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A version of 'Iwaya no sōshi 岩屋草子', an illustrated otogizōshi story of the 'mamakomono 継子物' (stepchild/wicked stepmother) category. Of unknown authorship but probably composed during the Muromachi Period (1333-1573). It concerns the daughter of Middle Counsellor Horikawa Koretaka 堀川中納言惟仲 whose stepmother tries to have her killed but who is saved and takes refuge in a fisherman's cave (the 'iwaya' of the title). There she is discovered by the Captain of the Second Rank and becomes his wife before finally being reunited with her father.
The manuscript is undated but probably is from the mid Edo Period (c.1680-1780)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003080834
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003080834
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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3 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12570 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1640
- End Date:
- 1780
- Date Range:
- 1640-1780
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Nara ehon. 72 folios. Vol. 1: 27 ff., vol. 2: 23 ff., vol. 3: 22 ff). 13 lines of text per page. Height of text: 120 mm
Illustrations: 12 single-page Tosa-style illustrations (vol. 1: 5 ill., vol. 2: 2 ill., vol.3: 5 ill.)
Material: ink and colour on maniai paper
Dimensions: 161 x 233 mm
Binding: fukurotoji style binding. Dark blue paper covers with images of trees and plants in gold ink. Inside of front and back covers covered in silver leaf with floral motifs. Each volume has a title slip of reddish-brown paper with design of reeds. In chitsu case and buckram box
Seal: ???on last folio and inside of back cover of each volume
- Former Internal References:
- Or 62 a
- Source of Acquisition:
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Acquired 1 march 1961
- Publications:
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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. 89-90
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)