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Or.75.ff.4
- Record Id:
- 032-003882070
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003882070
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121653900.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.ff.4
- Title:
- Yakumoshō 八雲抄
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Yakumomishō 八雲御抄
Author/compiler: Juntoku 順德, Emperor, 1197-1242 (reigned 1210-21).
Imprint: [Kyōto] , Nakano Dōya 中野道也 [=Nakano Kozaemon 中野小左衞門] , Kan'ei 12, 1635. Mokki on last folio (unnumbered) of maki 6 reads: 寛永乙亥 [ = 十二年] 夏五吉旦 ／ 中野氏道也刊行.
Description: 6 kan, formerly in 7 satsu (maki 3 is divided into 上 and 下), now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 1) ff. 45; (2) ff. 40; (3 上) ff. 42; (3 下) ff. 49; (4) ff. 38; (5) ff. 43; (6) ff. 33, [1] . 27.9 x 18.5 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 21-21.5 x 16.5 cm. No borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text in gyōsho script, without furigana. 11 lines to page, 20-24 characters to line.
Original mid-blue front cover of satsu 1 only, embossed with a rhomboid design. Traces of original printed title slip remain, but whole of gedai is missing. Naidai at head of each maki: Yakumoshō 八雲抄. Hashiragaki: Yakumoshō 八雲抄 + maki no. + folio no. In a modern western style half-leather binding.
Edition: The second blockprinted edition, following (1) an undated movable type edition, probably published in late-Genna or Kan'ei 1, 1624, and (2) the first blockprinted edition published in Kan'ei 2, 1625. A preface in kanbun (1 folio) precedes the mokuroku of maki 1 in this edition.
Contents: A treatise on waka poetry, dealing with poetic style, rhetorical devices, subject matter and vocabulary. The first systematic study of the history and technique of waka up to the end of Heian period. Completed by Emperor Juntoku in exile on the island of Sado.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003882070
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003882070
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1635
- End Date:
- 1635
- Date Range:
- 1635
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Very good. A clean copy with only minor worm damage in maki 1 and 6.
Impression: Shozuri.
Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Fukuda bunko 福田文庫 (seal of Fukuda Keien 福田敬園), on first and last pages of each maki. Oblong red seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, on first page of maki 2-6.
Manuscript notes: Brief shikigo signed by Chin'uken 枕雨軒 (?), dated Meiji 1, 1868, on last folio beside the mokki quoted above.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.
- 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 7.Literature - poetry 国文－詩歌 b.Waka 和歌
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 6, p. 52; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 550.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Satow, Ernest Mason, GCMG, 1843-1929