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Or.65.b.13
- Record Id:
- 032-003905878
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003905878
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122171263.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165003547.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.65.b.13
- Title:
- Asagao no tsuyu あさかほのつゆ
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: N.p., n.d. [c. Kan'ei period, 1624-44] . No kanki, but reliably assigned to Kan'ei 寛永 period.
Description: 2 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 上) ff. 26; (maki 下) ff. 23. 24.6 x 17.3 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 20.5 x 15.6 cm. (average). No borders, except to illustrations. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text without furigana. 11 lines to page, 22-26 characters to line.
Original black front cover of maki 上 only, embossed with a lattice and peony design.
Original title slip of maki 上 on left, with printed gedai: あさかほのつゆ 上. Title from naidai at head of text of maki 上. Hashiragaki: Asagao jō (ge) あさかほ 上 (下) + folio no.
Edition: First recorded edition of this work. Other editions followed in Meireki 4 (1658), Manji 2 (1659), Kanbun 4 (1664), Enpō 8 (1680) and Shōtoku 5 (1715).
Contents: A tragic love story of Prince Tsuyu-no-miya 露の宮 and Princess Asagao 朝顔. All the personages in this story have the names of plants. A tale of the Muromachi period (Muromachi jidai monogatari 室町時代物語) .
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003905878
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003905878
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165003547.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1624
- End Date:
- 1644
- Date Range:
- [1624-1644]
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Fair to good, but with lower corners soiled.
Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks.
Illustrations: A total of 18 single-page sumizuri woodcuts, 9 in maki 上 and 9 in maki 下. All are hand-coloured (tanroku) in green, yellow and red (partly oxidised). Colouring probably contemporary with publication of book.
Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, on mikaeshi. Oblong red seal within double border, Inanoya zōsho 稲廼舎藏書 (seal of Kusada Tariho 日下田足穂), on fol. 1a of maki 上 and 下 and on fol. 23b of maki 下. Oblong red seal, Momoi bunko 百井文庫 (seal of Momoi Tamehira 百井爲衡), on fol. 1a of maki 上 and on fol. 23b of maki 下. Small round red seal, Shisei 只誠 (seal of Sekine Shisei 關根只誠 ), on fol. 1a of maki 上 and 下.
Manuscript notes: Nigori and other reading marks added in red ink.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated to the British Museum by (Sir) Ernest M. Satow 13 June 1885.
- 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 e. Muromachi jidai monogatari 室町時代物語
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 37; Nihon bungaku shoshi 日本文学書誌, p. 659; text reprinted in Kinko shōsetsu shinsan 近古小説新纂 p. 1 and Muromachi jidai monogatari taisei 室町時代物語大成, vol. 1, pp. 390-421 (from a MS. copy).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)