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16079.a.7
- Record Id:
- 032-003882063
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003882063
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121653846.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16079.a.7
- Title:
- Bengyokushū 辨玉集 [弁玉集]
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Gakō inshō bengyokushuū 畫工印章辨玉集 [画工印章弁玉集 ]
Variant title: Chaki bengyokushū 茶器辨玉集 [茶器弁玉集]
Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: N.p., Kanbun 12, 1672. Kanki on last folio verso of second work reads: 寛文拾貳壬子年初春吉旦. Publisher not named.
Description: 2 kan + 3 kan, formerly in 5 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 1) ff. 32; (2) ff. 16; (3) ff. [1] (目録), 22; (4) ff. 43; (5) ff. 27. 25.1 x 18 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 20.6 x 16.8 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Kanbun text with printed kundoku and kunten in first work (Gakō inshō bengyokushū) ; katakana-majiri text with printed furigana in second work (Chaki bengyokushū). 9 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line, text interspersed with illustrative matter.
Dull reddish-brown front cover (renewed) of maki 1 of first work only. Title slip on left with manuscript gedai: 畫工印章辨玉集上. Titles from naidai of each work. Hashiragaki: (1) Inshō benchishū 印章辨知集 + maki no. + folio no.; (2) Chaki benchishū 茶器辨知集 + maki no. + folio no. In a modern western style half-leather binding.
Edition: The only pre-modern edition of these works. Early impressions of this edition contain a kanki giving the publisher's name as Uemura Jirōemon 上村次郎右衞門 of Kyōto, missing from the present copy.
Contents: Two separate works, published together. The first, Gakō inshō bengyokushū 畫工印章辨玉集 in 2 kan, gives brief information on Japanese artists, calligraphers and sculptors, with their seals and signatures. The second, Chaki bengyokushū 茶器辨玉集 in 3 kan, deals with vessels used in the tea ceremony, and their makers.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003882063
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003882063
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1672
- End Date:
- 1672
- Date Range:
- 1672
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good, with only minimal worm damage.
Impression: Atozuri, with worn blocks probably replaced by hokoku in places.
Illustrations: Sumizuri reproductions of artists' seals and signatures in the first work; sumizuri line sketches of tea vessels in the second.
Seals of ownership: None.
Manuscript notes: Date (1820) and signature on endpaper facing kanki: 文政三年辰末夏 ／ 中山喜助主.
- Custodial History:
- Formerly owned by Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866).
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.
- 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 17. Fine arts 芸術 a. General 一般
- Publications:
- Texts reprinted in Chadō zenshū 茶道全集, vol. 8 and Nihon garon taikan 日本画論大観, 中巻.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Siebold, Philipp Franz von, 1796-1866