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Or.75.f.4
- Record Id:
- 032-003808407
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003808407
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119714975.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147213520.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.f.4
- Title:
- Edo dōchūki 江戸道中記
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Dōchū meishoki 道中名所記
Variant title: Zōho Edo dōchūki 増補江戸道中記
Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: N. p., Jōkyō 3, 1686. No colophon, but date on title slip reads: 貞享三歳 ／ 寅三月改.
Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a box. ff. 24 (fol. 24a has been pasted as mikaeshi on inner front cover). 77 x 176 mm. (yokohon). Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 70 x 168 mm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text with printed dakuten. 19 lines to page, 10-12 characters to line.
Original dark blue covers, with original square printed title slip on left. Printed gedai includes date, as noted above, and reads: 貞享三歳 ／ 寅三月改 ／ 増補 ／ 江戸道中記 ／ 并 ／ 木曽海道入. Title from gedai. Naidai at head of main text on fol. 3a reads: Dōchū meishoki 道中名所記. Hashiragaki: Dō 道 + folio no.
Contents: A guide book for travellers on the Tōkaidō 東海道, giving practical information on posting stations, distances, noted places along the route, and followed by a brief itinerary to the Kisokaidō 木曾海道.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003808407
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003808407
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147213520.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1686
- End Date:
- 1686
- Date Range:
- 1686
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good.
Impression: Near-shozuri.
Illustrations: One double-page sumizuri woodcut on ff. 1b-2a; 2 single-page woodcuts on ff. 5a and 21b.
Seals of ownership: None.
Manuscript notes: (1) Notes in red in Kaempfer's hand on fol. 2b and below the woodcut on fol. 21b. (2) Note in 'Chetqua's' hand on paper slip pasted to front cover: A Book for the Information of Travellers. Itinerary to the City of Iedo. Old shelfmark, Pr: Or: 136, on title slip.
- Custodial History:
- Acquired in Japan by Engelbert Kaempfer 1690-1692.
- Former Internal References:
- Pr. Or. 136
- 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)