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Or.75.f.7(3)
- Record Id:
- 032-003808413
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003808413
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119714982.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147330032.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.f.7(3)
- Title:
- Shokoku anken kaibun no ezu 諸國安見回文之繪圖 [諸国安見回文之絵図]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: N. p., n.d. No colophon, but mokki at head of text on fol. 3a reads: 貞享元甲子三月中旬改之 (i. e. Jōkyō 1, 1684, date of revision).
Description: 1 kan, 2 satsu, in a box. (Satsu 上) ff. 1-57; (satsu 下) ff. 58-89. 161 x 115 mm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 132 x 97 mm. Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed dakuten and some furigana. 16 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line.
Original pale yellow covers, with original printed title slips on left bearing gedai: Dōchū kaibun ezu jō (ge) 道中回文繪圖 上 (下). Title from naidai at head of preface on fol. 1a. Hashiragaki: [no running title] , folio no. only.
Edition: The earliest (and perhaps the only) recorded edition of this work.
Contents: A detailed guide for travellers on the Tōkaidō highway between Edo and Kyōto, giving information on places of interest along the route.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003808413
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003808413
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147330032.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1684
- End Date:
- 1684
- Date Range:
- 1684
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good, apart from a few stained folios.
Impression: Near-shozuri.
Illustrations: A continuous pictorial map in the form of sumizuri woodcuts along the lower half of each page from fol. 3b to 83a, illustrating the route from Edo to Kyōto along the Tōkaidō 東海道.
Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on inner back covers of satsu 上 and 下, and on mikaeshi of satsu 下.
Manuscript notes: (1) Transliterations of place names, written in Kaempfer's hand, on many of the small paper strips pasted on illustrations from fol. 5b to 26a. (2) manuscript note on covers of both satsu: figurae et picturae cum descriptione magnae viae mediae per Japoniam. tomus superior (inferior). (3) Examined by Chetqua (on front cover of satsu 上). (4) A Japanese Book of Roads (on paper slip pasted to cover of satsu 上). (5) Old shelfmarks: Pr: Or: 138, 139.
- Custodial History:
- Acquired in Japan by Engelbert Kaempfer 1690-1692.
- Former Internal References:
- Pr. Or. 138, Pr. Or. 139
- 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)