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Or.75.f.28
- Record Id:
- 032-003808429
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003808429
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100119714999.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100159539944.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.f.28
- Title:
- [Kanze-ryū utaibon 観世流謡本 ]
- Scope & Content:
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Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Enpō 延宝 - early Genroku 元禄 period, c. 1673-1692 ?] . No colophon.
Description: 5 kan, 1 satsu, in a box. ff. [48] . Folios unnumbered. 147 x 113 mm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 123 x 94 mm. (average). No borders. No printed hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed fushi indicating the musical beat. 6 lines to page, 14-15 characters to line.
Dark blue covers, with flowering plants and cloud bands painted in gold, probably renewed at an early date. No title slips, hence no gedai. No naidai. Title supplied by cataloguer.
Edition: An undated edition, not yet located in any work of reference. Perhaps an incomplete copy.
Contents: Text of five nō plays combined in 1 satsu: (1) Kamo 賀茂; (2) Genzai Nue 現在鵺 ; (3) Higaki 檜垣; (4) Ikkaku sennin 一角仙人; (5) Kayoi komachi 通小町.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003808429
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003808429
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100159539944.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1673
- End Date:
- 1692
- Date Range:
- [1673-1692]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Very good, apart from a few brown stains.
Impression: Shozuri or near.
Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on recto and verso of last folio.
Manuscript notes: None in Kaempfer's hand. (1) Note on first endpaper: A Book of Examination / for the Office of Mandarin / Examined by Chetqua / Decr. 20. 1770. (2) Pencilled note in Arthur Waley's handwriting on third endpaper: Nō Plays. / (1) Kamo 賀茂, by Zenchiku / (2) [blank] / (3) Iwato / (4) Ikkaku Sennin 一角仙人 / (5) Kayoi Komachi 通小町 / by Motokiyo.
- Former Internal References:
- 16104.b.17
826.a.19
Pr: Or: 154 - Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired by Sir Hans Sloane from the estate of Engelbert Kaempfer 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 b. Nō 能
- Publications:
- Kōzan bunko-bon no kenkyū, utaibon no bu 鴻山文庫本の研究・謡本之部, passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716
Sloane, Hans, Baronet, physician and collector, 1660-1753,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123196729,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/77959 - Subjects:
- Japanese drama -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Nō plays