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Or.75.h.2
- Record Id:
- 032-003808403
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003808403
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119714970.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147330485.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.h.2
- Title:
- Shimabaraki 嶋原記 [島原記]
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Shimabara kassenki 嶋原合戰記 [島原合戦記]
Variant title: Saikoku Shimabara kassenki 西國嶋原合戰記 [西国島原合戦記]
Author/compiler: unknown.
Imprint: N. p., n.d. [Keian-Kanbun period, c. 1650-1670]. No kanki or dated preface.
Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu, in a box. (Maki 上) ff. 27; (maki 中) ff. 24; (maki 下) ff. 34. 26 x 187 mm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 215 x 170 mm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana, dakuten and kutōten. 12 lines to page, c. 20 characters to line.
Original black covers with embossed lattice and peony design. Original title slips on left with printed gedai: Saikoku (tsunogaki) Shimabara kassenki 西國 (角書) 嶋原合戰記. Title from mokurokudai and from naidai at head of text in each maki. Hashiragaki: 高上 (中, 下) + folio no.
Edition: An undated edition, probably dating from mid- to late-17th century. Editions of Keian 2 (1649), Kanbun 13 (1673), Jōkyō 5 (1688), Hōei 1 (1704) and Hōei 5 (1708) are known but given the connection with Kaempfer, the present copy must have been published before 1692.
Contents: A semi-fictional account, as described by an 'eye-witness', of the Shimabara uprising of Christian converts, rōnin, peasants and local daimyō, against the shogunate, 1637-8. The work is traditionally classed as a kana-zōshi or as a historical record.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003808403
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003808403
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147330485.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1650
- End Date:
- 1670
- Date Range:
- [1650-1670]
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Very good.
Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks.
Illustrations: A total of 16 single-page sumizuri woodcuts, distributed as follows: (maki 上) 7; (maki 中) 3; (maki 下) 6.
Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on first and last folios of each maki (on fol. 2b of maki 上).
Manuscript notes: Note pasted on mikaeshi of maki 中: Two volumes of Historicall books of Japan. Examined by Chetqua Decr. 17. 1770. Note on mikaeshi of maki 下: Form of Examination of Criminals / Examined by Mr. Bevan and A Tong / Novr. 25. 1773. Old shelfmarks: Pr. Or. 29, 30, 26.
- Custodial History:
- Acquired in Japan by Engelbert Kaempfer 1690-1692.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from the estate of Engelbert Kaempfer by Sir Hans Sloane 1723-1725 and incorporated in the British Museum in 1753.
- Finding Aids:
- Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). C. Japanese works 和書 8. Literature - poetry 国文－詩歌 d. Jōruri 浄瑠璃
- Publications:
- Tōhoku daigaku fuzoku toshokan betchibon mokuroku 東北大学附属図書館別置本目録, p. 53.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)