Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
16107.c.45
- Record Id:
- 032-003882079
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003882079
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121653909.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16107.c.45
- Title:
- Otogi-bōko 御伽婢子
- Scope & Content:
-
Variant title: Togi-bōko 伽婢子
Author/compiler: Asai Ryōi 淺井了意, also known as Hyōsuishi Shōun 瓢水子松雲 , d. 1691.
Imprint: [Kyōto] , Nishizawa Tahē, Kanbun 6, 1666. Kanki on fol 26b of maki 13 reads: 寛文六丙午暦三月吉日 ／ 書林 ／ 西澤太兵衛開板.
Description: 13 kan, 13 satsu, in a chitsu case. (Maki 1) ff. 4 (2 prefaces), 1-4 (目録), 5-24 (本文) ; (2) ff. 22; (3) ff. 31; (4) ff. 25; (5) ff. 21; (6) ff. 29; (7) ff. 29; (8) ff. 30; (9) ff. 23; (10) ff. 24; (11) ff. 28; (12) ff. 26; (13) ff. 26. 26.8 x 17.6 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 22.4 x 16.5 cm. (average). Single-line borders. Single fishtail design (chiefly white) on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana and kutōten. 12 lines to page, 24-26 characters to line.
Original mid-blue covers, with original printed title slips on left. Gedai: title in kana, をとぎばうこ, and in kanji, 御伽婢子, on alternate satsu. Naidai at head of preface, mokuroku and each maki: Togi-bōko 伽婢子. Hashiragaki: 伽子 + maki no. + folio no.
Edition: Earliest edition of this work, followed by two others in Genroku 12 (1699) and Bunsei 9 (1826), each differing textually from the first edition.
Contents: A collection of 68 tales of mystery and the supernatural, the earliest of its kind in Japan. Generally classed as a kana-zōshi. The stories are drawn from Chinese collections such as Jiandeng xinhua 剪燈新話 and Jiandeng yuhua 剪燈餘話, translated and adapted by the compiler, as well as from traditional Japanese tales. First preface dated Kanbun 6 (1666) and signed Hyōsuishi Shōun 瓢水子松雲 (i. e. Asai Ryōi). Second preface in kanbun, signed by Unshō 雲樵.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003882079", "parent" : "#", "text" : "16107.c.45: Otogi-bōko 御伽婢子" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003882079
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003882079
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 13 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1666
- End Date:
- 1666
- Date Range:
- 1666
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Condition: Fair to good. Some soiled and stained folios, and minor worm damage, chiefly in upper margins.
Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks.
Illustrations: A total of 60 double-page and 48 single-page sumizuri woodcuts, distributed as follows: (maki 1) 4 double, 1 single, (2) 4 double, (3) 5 double, 8 single, (4) 4 double, 3 single, (5) 3 double, 2 single, (6) 7 double, 4 single, (7) 5 double, 3 single, (8) 8 double, 2 single, (9) 4 double, 4 single, (10) 5 double, 3 single, (11) 6 double, 4 single, (12) 3 double, 6 single, (13) 2 double, 8 single. Illustrator not named, but attributed to Yoshida Hanbē 吉田半兵衞.
Seals of ownership: None.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Kōbunsō, 14 April 1958.
- 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 f.Kana-zōshi 仮名草子
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 501; Edo bungaku zuroku 江戸文学図録, p. 7, pl. 20-1; text reprinted in Kinsei bungei sōsho 近世文芸叢書, vol. 3.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)