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16055.cc.4
- Record Id:
- 032-003903360
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003903360
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122040720.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16055.cc.4
- Title:
- Sumiyoshi monogatari すみよし物語
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Kanbun 1, 1661?].
Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu. (上) ff. 25 ( + 3 ff. of illustrations); (中) ff. 26-34 ( + 2 ff. of illustrations); (下) ff. 35-57 ( + 3 ff. of illustrations). 27.3 x 19.3 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 20.6 x 16.5 cm. No borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 11 lines to page, 18-20 characters to line.
Original covers of dark blue paper, with original printed title slips (damaged in places).
Gedai: すみよし物語上 (中, 下). Naidai and gedai identical. Hashiragaki: Sumiyoshi 住吉 + folio no.
Edition: Although undated, this copy almost certainly belongs to the edition published by Nakano Dōya in Kanbun 1 (1661) (c.f. Or.75.g.6) with the original kanki deleted.
Contents: An anonymous story in the 'wicked stepmother' genre, written in the early Kamakura period, believed to be a revised version of an earlier Heian work, now lost.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003903360
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003903360
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 3 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1632
- End Date:
- 1632
- Date Range:
- 1632
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Generally good. Worm damage confined to upper margins. Few water stains in maki 下.
Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks.
Illustrations: 8 unnumbered folios of sumizuri illustrations, printed on both sides of each folio, are inserted between ff. 8 and 9, 12 and 13, 18-19 of maki 上; 28-29 and 32-33 of maki 中; and 39-40, 45-46 and 51-52 of maki 下. Artist unknown.
Seals of ownership: 5 oblong and square red seals on first page of each maki, of which the following 3 are identifiable: (1) Ōno zōshoki 大野藏書記 (seal of Ōno Shachiku 大野洒竹); (2) Arai kura 新居庫 (seal of Arai Masamichi 新居正道); (3) Yūsui Kagyo 有水可漁 (seal of Kōda Rohan 幸田露伴).
Manuscript notes: A few textual emendations in red ink, as a result of collating with the Gunsho ruijū 群書類從 text and others. This is attested by a note in red ink on last page of maki 下 dated Kaei 4 (1851), which reads: 右住吉物語以群書類従本校之 ／ 嘉永四年辛卯十月初日新居正方 ／ 本伝 以活板並屋代弘賢本校合云.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Rinrōkaku, 2 April 1964.
- 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 a. Early monogatari 古物語
- Publications:
- Chūsei monogatari kenkyū: Sumiyoshi monogatari ronkō 中世物語研究• 住吉物語論考 (Kuwabara, H.), pp. 12-4 and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)