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16055.c.51
- Record Id:
- 032-003882098
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003882098
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121653928.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16055.c.51
- Title:
- Sarashina no nikki さらしなの日記
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Sarashina nikki 更級日記
Author/compiler: Sugawara no Takasue no musume 菅原孝標女, daughter of Sugawara no Takasue, b. 1008.
Imprint: [Edo] , Enjakudō [= Hiranoya Kichibē 平野屋吉兵衞] , Genroku17, 1704. Kanki on fol. 75a reads: 元禄十七甲申載孟春朔旦 ／ 武陽城之西北牛込魚肆 書林燕萑 (ママ) [ = 雀] 堂 藏版.
Description: 4 kan, 1 satsu, in a chitsu case. ff. 75. Continuous foliation; no breaks in text between one maki and the next. 22.8 x 16.1 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 17.8 x 13.3 cm. (average). Single-line borders round each individual page. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana and kutōten. 10 lines to page, 20-22 characters to line.
Renewed light blue covers without title slip. Manuscript gedai in gyōsho script on left of cover: さらしなの日記. Title from naidai at head of maki 1. Hashiragaki: [no title] , maki no 1 (etc.) 巻之一 (等) + folio no.
Edition: The earliest printed edition, followed by the only other pre-modern edition in Tenpō 9 天保九年 (1838).
Contents: Diary of the daughter of Sugawara no Takasue, a lady inclined towards fantasy and romanticism, recording emotional events in her life and illuminated by many waka poems. Written c. 1060.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003882098
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003882098
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1704
- End Date:
- 1704
- Date Range:
- 1704
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good. Only slight soiling and stains on first few folios. Some folios split along fore-edge.
Impression: Shozuri or near.
Illustrations: 17 single-page sumizuri woodcuts on ff. 3a, 7a, 13a, 19a, 23a, 27b, 32a, 37a, 41a, 45b, 49a, 53b, 59a, 63a, 67b, 70a and 73b.
Seals of ownership: Small red seal, printed inkoku, (not deciphered), on fol. 1a.
Manuscript notes: Genealogical table of the Sugawara family on mikaeshi. A few headnotes in black in upper margins. Interlinear textual notes and shubiki in red scattered throughout the text.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Rinrōkaku, 15 Oct. 1963.
- 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 6.Literature - prose 国文－散文 a.Diaries 日記
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 83
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)