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Or 12227
- Record Id:
- 032-003353894
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003353894
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100037250107.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145249015.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12227
- Title:
- Otekagami 御手鑑
- Scope & Content:
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A folding album containing 50 examples of calligraphy by Japanese historical figures ranging from the 8th to late 16th centuries. Begins with Emperor Shōmu 聖武天皇 (701-756) and Empress Kōmyō 光明皇后 (701-760) and ends with Kobori (Enshū) Masakazu 小堀(遠州) 正一 (1579-1647). Many of the specimens bear the official appraisal stamp 'Kinzan 琴山'.
The album itself is undated but was probably put together in the mid-19th century.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003353894", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 12227: Otekagami 御手鑑" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003353894
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003353894
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume (38 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100145249015.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 0750
- End Date:
- 1650
- Date Range:
- 750-1650
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Folding album with 38 leaves. On each leaf one or two paper fragments bearing calligraphy have been pasted accompanied in almost all cases by a slip indicating the name of the calligrapher.
Dimensions: 395 x 250 mm.
Illustrations: Front endpaper is covered with gold paper and decorated with an illustration of two deer grazing near a waterfall. Back endpaper has an illustration of birds, rocks and plants. Other leaves have designs of plants and flowers over which the slips of paper bearing the calligraphy have been pasted.
Binding: Green brocade cover with a floral motif. Metal book corners engraved with a foliate design. Handwritten title slip: 御手鑑.
- Custodial History:
- Believed to have been acquired in Hakodate by Alfred Howell in 1876.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired by the British Museum in 1959.
- Publications:
- For a discussion of this manuscript with details of the calligraphers and transcriptions of texts see Nobuko Morii 森井信子, 'Dai-Ei Toshokan-zō 'Otekagami' no hōkoku 大英図書館蔵「御手鑑」の報告' , Kokubun tsurumi 国文鶴見, 37 (2003) pp. 56-83.
- Exhibitions:
- Writing: Making Your Mark, British Library, 26 April 2019 - 27 August 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)