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16107.c.39
- Record Id:
- 032-003882104
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003882104
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121653934.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16107.c.39
- Title:
- Seken munesan'yō 世間胸算用
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Ōtsugomori wa ichinichi senkin 大晦日は一日千金
Author/compiler: Ihara Saikaku 井原西鶴 1642-93.
Imprint: Ōsaka, Yorozuya Nihē, Genroku 12, 1699. Kanki on fol. 21a of maki 5 reads: 元禄十二己卯年八月吉旦 ／ 書肆 ／ 大坂南本町 ／ 萬屋仁兵衛板行
Description: 5 kan, 5 satsu, in a box. (Maki 1) ff. [1] (序), 21; (2) ff. 20; (3) ff. 20; (4) ff. 20; (5) ff. 21.25 x 18 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 18.8 x 14.2 cm. (average). Single-line borders. Single black fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 10 lines to page, 24-26 characters to line.
Original blackish-grey covers, with original printed title slips on left. Gedai: 世間胸算用 ／ 大晦日ハ一日千金, without tsunogaki heading indicating illustrations (繪入, 新板繪入, etc.). No naidai, except at head of mokuroku in each maki: Munesan'yō 胸算用, followed by sub-title. Hashiragaki: Munesan'yō 胸算用 + maki no. + folio no.
Edition: Second edition, printed from the blocks acquired by Yorozuya Nihē from the 3 publishers of the first edition of Genroku 5 (1692) : Uemura Heizaemon 上村平左衞門 of Kyōto, Yorozuya Seibē 萬屋清兵衞 of Edo, and Itamiya Tarōemon 伊丹屋太郎右衞門 of Ōsaka.
Contents: A collection of ukiyo-zōshi stories, enlivened by wry humour, recounting the struggles of the poorer townsmen to evade bill-collectors at the time of debt-settling at the end of the year. The preface on first folio of maki 1 is engraved from Saikaku's own hanshita.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003882104
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003882104
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 5 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1699
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 1699
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Fair to good. A few ink smears and water stains in maki 5. Worm damage in margins of most maki has been made good by skilful urauchi re-backing.
Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks.
Illustrations: A total of 19 sumizuri illustrations, 11 double-page (mihiraki) and 8 single-page, distributed as follows: (maki 1) 2 double, 2 single; (2) 1 double, 2 single; (3) 3 double, 1 single; (4) 2 double, 2 single; (5) 3 double, 1 single. Illustrator not named, but unlikely to be Yoshida Hanbē, Hishikawa Moronobu or Saikaku himself.
Seals of ownership: Two red seals, one oblong and one square, both printed inkoku, on first page of maki 1 and last page of maki 5.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Richard Lane, 19 Nov. 1956.
- 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 g.Ukiyo-zōshi 浮世草子
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 608; Saikaku 西鶴, pp. 142-4, p1. 376-80; Teihon Saikaku zenshū 定本西鶴全集, vol. 7, pp. 179-298.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)