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Or 13822
- Record Id:
- 032-003099547
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003099547
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025927117.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165003277.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 13822
- Title:
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Yuriwaka Daijin ゆりわか大臣 [由利若大臣]
- Scope & Content:
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'The story of Minister Yuriwaka'. A lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Kōwakamai (recitative dance) also known as 'Yuriwaka Daijin monogatari 百合若大臣物語'. Of unknown authorship but composed during the late Muromachi Period (c.1500-1573).
Title on title slips: scroll 1: ゆりわか大臣 上, scroll 2: 由利若大臣 中, scroll 3: ゆりわか大臣 下.
Summary: the eponymous Minister of the Right Yuriwaka was a successful leader of the forces sent to repel the Mongol invasions of Japan in the late 13th century. On his way home in triumph, however, he fell victim to a plot by two members of his retinue and was abandoned on the island of Genkaijima 玄海島 . Yuriwaka was given up for dead but his wife subsequently learned the truth and sent her husband’s favourite hawk to take food to him. Yuriwaka was eventually rescued and exacted revenge on his enemies. Similarities with Homer’s Odyssey have led some scholars to see a western influence in the tale but it is unclear whether the Homeric tale would have been known in Japan at the time of its composition.
This manuscript is undated but was probably written in the early Edo Period (c.1640-1680).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003099547
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003099547
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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3 scrolls
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165003277.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1640
- End Date:
- 1680
- Date Range:
- 1640-1680
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Acquired in 1977
- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Emaki picture scroll in 3 rolls comprising a total of 22 sections of text and 22 illustrations. Scroll 1 has 6 panels of text and 6 illustrations, scrolls 2 and 3 each have 8 panels of text and 8 illustrations. Height of text: 265 mm.
Material: ink and colour on ganpi paper flecked with gold.
Dimensions: scroll 317 x 18004 mm, scroll 2: 317 x 17019 mm, scoll 3: 317 x 15303 mm.
Binding: each scroll has a beige brocade cover embroidered with floral motifs in gold thread. Each cover is lined with gold foil decorated with landscape scenes. In a lacquer box.
- 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. 72-75, 89
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)