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16052.f.16
- Record Id:
- 032-003905889
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003905889
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122171275.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16052.f.16
- Title:
- Asai monogatari 淺井物語 [浅井物語]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: Kyōto, Kanbun 2, 1662. [Note that this is a much later impression from the blocks of Kanbun 2, with publisher's name omitted.] Kanki on last folio of maki 6 reads: 寛文二年壬寅八月吉日 ／ 洛陽書林.
Description: 6 kan, 6 satsu, in a box. (1) ff. 16; (2) ff. 17; (3) ff. 20; (4) ff. 17; (5) ff. 19; (6) ff. 20. 25.9 x 18 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 21.2 x 16.9 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana. 10 lines to page, c. 19 characters to line.
Original dull olive-green covers, with original printed title slips. Gedai: 淺井物かたり (maki 1-3) and 阿さ井物語 (maki 4-6). Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Asai 淺井 + maki no. + folio no.
Edition: The only pre-modern edition appears to be that of Kanbun 2, 1662. This was published by Maruya Shōzaburō 丸屋床三郎 but for printing the present copy (at a later date) the blocks must have been acquired by a different publisher, whose name does not appear in the kanki.
Contents: A kana-zōshi work on the life and exploits of Asai Sukemasa 淺井亮政, 1495-1546. The same subject is treated at greater length in Asai sandaiki 淺井三代記. The present work covers material in maki 1-5 (of 15) of Asai sandaiki, published in Genroku 2, 1689.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003905889
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003905889
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 6 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1662
- End Date:
- 1662
- Date Range:
- 1662
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good, apart from a few stained and soiled folios.
Impression: Atozuri, from badly worn blocks.
Illustrations: A total of 20 single-page and 8 double-page sumizuri illustrations, distributed as follows: (maki 1) 3 single, 1 double; (maki 2) 5 single; (maki 3) 1 single, 3 double; (maki 4) 4 single, 1 double; (maki 5) 4 single, 1 double; (maki 6) 3 single, 2 double. Two of the pictures in maki 1 are crudely daubed with red.
Seals of ownership: None. A kashihon'ya stamp, Kikyōya 桔梗屋, is impressed on the mikaeshi of each maki.
- 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 f. Kana-zōshi 仮名草子
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 35; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 21; Kana-zōshi shuūsei 仮名草子集成, vol. 1, pp. 89-151, 504-7.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- 5. Literature - fiction 国文－小説 f. Kana-zōshi 仮名草子