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Or.75.g.4
- Record Id:
- 032-003882036
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003882036
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121653819.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.g.4
- Title:
- Aki no yonaga monogatari 秋の夜長物語
- Scope & Content:
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Alternative reading of title: Aki no yo no naga monogatari
Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: [Kyōto] , Yasuda Jūbē, Kan'ei 19, 1642. Kanki on fol. 28b reads: 寛永十九年五月日 安田十兵衛.
Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. ff. 28. 25.4 x 17.5 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 21.6 x 16.4 cm. (average). Single-line borders all round. 'Flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 11 lines to page, 23 characters to line.
Renewed (early Meiji period) light brown shibubiki front cover only, without title slip.
Manuscript gedai: 秋の夜長物語. Title from naidai, with reading indicated in furigana.
Hashiragaki: Aki no yo 秋の夜 + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: The earliest blockprinted edition, following two movable type editions of Keichō / Genna period.
Contents: Otogi-zōshi tale of the type known as chigo monogatari 稚児物語, written by an unknown hand in the Nanbokuchō (possibly Ōei 応永) period. It tells of the love of Keikai 桂海 , a priest of Hieizan, afterwards known as Sensai Shōnin 瞻西上人 for a youth, Umewaka 梅若, and the tragic consequences of their liaison.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003882036
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003882036
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1642
- End Date:
- 1642
- Date Range:
- 1642
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good, apart from worm damage along fore-edges and towards spine, not affecting text. Ff. 1-4 repaired by urauchi patching.
Impression: Atozuri, from markedly worn blocks.
Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書 (his small seal), on first page of text.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated to the British Museum by (Sir) Ernest M. Satow 13 June 1885.
- 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 5. Literature - fiction 国文－小説 e. Muromachi jidai monogatari 室町時代物語
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1 , p. 26; Nihon bungaku shoshi 日本文学書誌, p. 656; Chigo monogatari: love stories or Buddhist sermons ?, in Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 35, no. 2 (includes a translation of this work).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Satow, Ernest Mason, GCMG, 1843-1929