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16125.d.34
- Record Id:
- 032-003905890
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003905890
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122171276.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16125.d.34
- Title:
- Chie kagami 知惠鑑 [知恵鑑]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Tsujihara Genpo 辻原元甫, also known as Kikken Sanjin 橘軒散人.
Imprint: [Kyōto] , Kojima Yazaemon, n.d. (author's batsu dated Manji 3, 1660). Kanki, printed inkoku outside frame of batsu, fol. 2b, reads: 室町通鯉屋町小嶋弥左衛門梓行.
Description: 10 kan, formerly in 10 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 1) ff. 2 (preface), 52; (2) ff. 48; (3) ff. 22; (4) ff. 15; (5) ff. 19; (6) ff.18; (7) ff. 43; (8) ff. 44; (9) ff. 32; (10) ff. 21, 2 (batsu). 25.5 x 16.4 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 20.9 x 15 cm. (average). Single-line borders. Single white fishtail design on hanshin.
Kana-majiri text with printed furigana and dakuten. 10 lines to page, 23-26 characters to line.
Renewed pale fawn front cover of satsu 1 only, with renewed title slip bearing manuscript gedai: 知惠鑑 天. Title from mokurokudai and from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Chie kagami 知惠鑑 + maki no. +folio no.
Edition: The first and only pre-modern edition of this work, probably published in Manji 3 (1660), the date of batsu at end of maki 10.
Contents: A collection of 201 stories and anecdotes drawn from Chinese sources, exemplifying 10 classes of wisdom. A didactic work, classified as a kana-zōshi. Begins with an unsigned preface and ends with a batsu by the author, signed Kikken Sanjin 橘軒散人, dated Manji 3 (1660).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003905890
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003905890
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1660
- End Date:
- 1660
- Date Range:
- 1660
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Generally good, but with soiled corners in maki 1-2 and yellow stains in maki 7.
Impression: Slightly atozuri. Although of the first impression, blocks show marked signs of wear.
Illustrations: A total of 60 single-page sumizuri illustrations in Chinese style, distributed as follows: (maki 1) 10; (2) 9; (3) 5; (4) 4; (5) 4; (6) 5; (7) 6; (8) 8; (9) 5; (10) 4.
Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, 只誠藏 (seal of Sekine Shisei 關根只誠) on first page of preface. Also one red and one black square seal (undeciphered) on the same page.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from William Anderson, 13 February 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 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. 4, p. 217; Kinsei bungaku mikanbon sōsho, kana-zōshi hen 近世文学未刊本叢書・仮名草子篇, pp. 6-8, 173-369.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anderson, William, surgeon and collector of Japanese books, 1842-1900