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Or.75.f.20
- Record Id:
- 032-003808421
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003808421
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119714990.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147213389.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.f.20
- Title:
- Zōho Edo-zu 増補江戸圖 [増補江戸図]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: N. p., Enpō 9, 1681. Kanki at end of kango at bottom left-hand corner reads: 延宝九年酉五月吉日.
Description: 1 folding map made up of 2 sheets pasted together and printed from 4 blocks. In a box. 496 x 703 mm.
Blockprint. Printing frame 400 x 697 mm. Single-line borders.
Text-matter in kanji and hiragana-majiri.
Original dark blue covers (124 x 610 mm.) with original printed title slip on left bearing gedai: Zōho Edo-zu 増補江戸圖. No naidai.
Contents: Street plan of Edo, hand-coloured in yellow, green, pink and blue. An inset panel at bottom left gives distances from Nihonbashi, followed by short kango and date.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003808421
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003808421
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 sheet
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147213389.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1681
- End Date:
- 1681
- Date Range:
- 1681
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good. Recently re-backed with linen.
Impression:Atozuri, from worn blocks.
Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on reverse of map.
Manuscript notes: None on face of map. Note (in Kaempfer's hand ?) on title slip: Iaponici Imp. Urbs in [?] . Note on paper slip pasted to front cover: Plan of the city of Iedo in Japan.
- 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)