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16115.d.12
- Record Id:
- 032-003882109
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003882109
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121653939.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16115.d.12
- Title:
- Kusabana-e zenshū 艸花繪前集 [草花絵前集]
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Kusabana-e zensho 草花繪全書 [草花絵全書]
Author/compiler: Itō Ihē 伊藤伊兵衞
Imprint: [Edo] , Suhara Mohē, Genroku 12, 1699. Kanki on fol. 19b of maki 下 reads: 元禄十二卯十月吉日 ／ 東武江北染井 ／ 耕人伊兵衛圖 ／ 須原茂兵衛梓.
Description: 3 kan, formerly in 3 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 上) ff. [1] (序), 17; (maki 中) ff. 19; (maki 下) ff. 19. 26.9 x 18.5 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 22.6 x 16.5 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No printed hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana and dakuten. Variable no. of lines to page and characters to line.
Original mid-blue front cover of maki 上 only, with original printed title slip on left. Gedai, with tsunogaki in a roundel: 草形出生 (角書) 草花繪全書. Title from head of preface. No other naidai. Maki and folio numbering printed at inner edge of each folio recto.
Edition: The only pre-modern edition.
Contents: A collection of illustrations of plants in flower, with brief descriptive captions. Preface, presumably by Itō Ihē, is signed and dated as follows: 元禄己卯小春の日武陽染井之野夫書之. A 3-line endnote by the same hand precedes the kanki quoted above.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003882109
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003882109
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- 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: Good, except for a few folios soiled at bottom corner.
Impression: Sharp and clear, not far from shozuri.
Illustrations: Sketches of flowering plants, printed sumizuri on every folio, recto and verso. From drawings by Itō Ihē.
Seals of ownership: None.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from William Anderson, 21 March 1894.
- 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 14.Physical sciences 自然科学 b.Botany, including materia medica 本草学
- Publications:
- Honzō kankei tosho mokuroku 本草関係図書目録, pp. 23 (Shirai), 20 (Ueno).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anderson, William, surgeon and collector of Japanese books, 1842-1900