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16001.d.3
- Record Id:
- 032-003882021
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003882021
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121653804.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16001.d.3
- Title:
- Kinmō zui 訓蒙圖彙 [訓蒙図彙]
- Scope & Content:
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Alternative reading of title: Kunmō zui
Author/compiler: Nakamura Tekisai 中村愓齋, Confucian scholar, 1629-1702.
Imprint: [Kyōto] , Yamagataya 山形屋, n.d. (preface dated Kanbun 6 寛文丙午, 1666).
Description: 2 + 20 kan, formerly in 14 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (1) ff. 4 (preface 叙), 3 (凡例), 37 (目録上) ; (2) ff. 44 (目録下) ; (3) ff. 10 (maki 1) ; (4) ff. 16; (5) ff. 16; (6) ff. 21; (7) ff. 10; (8) ff. 14; (9) ff. 14; (10) ff. 26; (11) ff. 21; (12) ff. 30; (13) ff. 36; (14) ff. 17; (15) ff. 20; (16) ff. 17; (17) ff. 28; (18) ff. 10; (19) ff. 15; (20) ff. 14; (21) ff. 22; (22) ff. 33. 26.2 x 18.4 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 19-20.1 x 14.2 cm. Double-line borders all round. Single fishtail design on hanshin. Vertical and horizontal lines dividing text from illustrations on each page. Kanbun, with okurigana and kaeriten, and hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. Variable no. of lines to page and characters to line.
Original mid-blue front covers of satsu 1 and 8 only, faintly embossed with a stylised chrysanthemum design. Original printed title slips on left (fragmentary in the case of satsu 1), with gedai: 訓蒙圖彙. Title from preface and head of mokuroku. No naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: 訓蒙圖彙 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: Earliest edition of this work. Followed by enlarged editions in Genroku 8, 1695 (頭書増補訓蒙圖彙) and Kansei 1 1789 (増補頭書訓蒙圖彙大成), the latter with illustrations by Shimokōbe Shūsui 下河辺拾水.
Contents: A popular illustrated encyclopedia, the first of its kind in Japan, consisting chiefly of illustrations with a minimum of text.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003882021
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003882021
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1666
- End Date:
- 1666
- Date Range:
- 1666
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Very good. A clean copy, with minimal worm damage in maki 1 only.
Impression: Fairly sharp and clear, with some signs of block wear.
Illustrations: Sumizuri woodcuts on every page depicting natural phenomena and manmade objects, two to each page (4 per folio).
Seals of ownership: Large square red seal, 'Takamori shoko' 高森書庫, on first page of each former satsu.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from William Anderson, 13 February 1894.
- 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 1. Encyclopedias and works of general scope 事典・一般書
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 2, p. 263; Ehon no kenkyū 絵本の研究, pp. 30-2.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anderson, William, surgeon and collector of Japanese books, 1842-1900