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Or.75.f.5
- Record Id:
- 032-003808414
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003808414
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119714983.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147213546.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.f.5
- Title:
- Dai Nihon zukan 大日本圖鑑 [大日本図鑑]
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Shinsen Dai Nihon zukan 新撰大日本圖鑑 [新撰大日本図鑑]
Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: N. p., n.d. [c. Enpō-Jōkyō period, 1678-88]. No kanki. Original kanki deleted from block, including year of publication. Remaining vestige of date reads: 三月吉日. (But see under Edition below.)
Description: 1 sheet (folding map), in a slip-case. 712 x 953 mm.
Blockprint. Printing frame 668 x 945 mm. Single-line borders.
Information on map and on lower edge in kanji throughout. No furigana.
Original black covers of folded map (178 x 85 mm.), with original printed title slip bearing gedai: Shinsen (tsunogaki) Dai Nihon zukan 新撰 (角書) 大日本圖鑑. No naidai.
Edition: According to Akioka (see References below), two almost identical editions of a map titled Shinsen Dai Nihon zukan were published with kanki dated Enpō 6 (1678) : 延寶六戊午三月吉日. The present map appears to be an undated reprint of one of these.
Contents: A general map of Japan, including Shikoku and Kyūshū, giving factual information on each province with details of revenue of the major fiefs. A printed panel along lower edge gives summary facts about the number of kōri (郡), mura (村), Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, and the main groups of provinces.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003808414
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003808414
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 sheet
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147213546.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1678
- End Date:
- 1678
- Date Range:
- [1678]
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Generally good. Whole map recently re-backed with linen.
Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks.
Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, impressed on back of map.
Manuscript notes: (1) Name in black ink, Japonia, in Kaempfer's hand on title slip. (2) Note in 'Chetqua's' hand on paper slip pasted to front cover: Map of Japan. (3) Old shelfmark, Pr: Or: 134, on title slip.
- Custodial History:
- Acquired in Japan by Engelbert Kaempfer 1690-1692.
- Former Internal References:
- Pr. Or. 134
- 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)