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16049.b.8
- Record Id:
- 032-003905874
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003905874
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122171259.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16049.b.8
- Title:
- Taiheiki 太平記
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: Ōsaka, Honda (or Homuta) Iemon, Genroku 10, 1697. Kanki following batsu at end of maki 40 reads: 元禄十丁丑歳十一月吉日 ／ 攝城大坂心齋橋筋 ／ 書肆 保武多伊右衛門梓.
Description: 40 kan preceded by introductory maki containing preface and Tsurugi no maki 劍巻, formerly in 11 satsu, now rebound in 2 vols. western style. Each maki begins with a 1-folio mokuroku 目録. 12.6 x 18.7 cm. (oblong format 横本 ). Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 11.4 x 17.5 cm. Single-line borders. Single fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana, dakuten and kutōten. 20 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line.
Original dark blue front covers of satsu 1 and 7 only. Original central title slips (fragments only in the case of satsu 1) with printed gedai: 太平記. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Taiheiki 太平記 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: Many blockprinted editions of Taiheiki, both katakana-majiri and hiragana-majiri, were issued in the 17th century, but the present edition of Genroku 10 was the first to contain illustrations.
Contents: A quasi-historical chronicle (gunki monogatari 軍記物語) recounting the troubled history of conflict between the Northern and Southern Courts, 1318-67. Embellished with tales from Buddhist mythology and the Chinese classics. Completed c. 1370.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003905874
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003905874
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1697
- End Date:
- 1697
- Date Range:
- 1697
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good. No worm damage and little soiling.
Impression: Poor. Atozuri, from badly worn blocks.
Illustrations: Single- and double-page sumizuri woodcuts, 4 or 5 to each maki, distributed throughout the work. Tobira-e on inner front cover, depicting a phoenix and kirin, partially hand-coloured, and giving additional information on imprint as follows: 元禄十丁丑歳陽復吉日 ／ 難波津書林文言堂版.
Seals of ownership: Square red seal, Kagesada 景定, on last page of each former satsu.
- Custodial History:
- Formerly owned by Philipp Fran von Siebold (1796-1866).
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1968.
- 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 d. Gunki monogatari 軍記物語
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 4, pp. 105-11; Nihon bungaku daijiten 日本文学大辞典, vol. 4, p. 433.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Siebold, Philipp Franz von, 1796-1866