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Or.75.g.5
- Record Id:
- 032-003905900
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003905900
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122171289.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.g.5
- Title:
- Kiyomizu monogatari 清水物語
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Asayama Irin'an 朝山意林庵, also known as Soshin 素心, Confucian scholar of Kyōto, 1589-1664.
Imprint: N.p., Kan'ei 15, 1638. Kanki on fol. 34a reads: 寛永拾五戊寅十月吉旦開之.
Description: 2 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (上) ff. 34; (下) ff. 34. 26.3 x 17.5 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 21.4 x 16.1 cm. No borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 11 lines to page, 19-22 characters to line.
Original vermilion front cover of satsu 上 and back cover of satsu 下, faintly embossed with a pattern, now badly rubbed. Original printed title slip, with original gedai over-written in black ink. Gedai reads: 清水物語 上. Naidai and gedai identical. Hashiragaki: Kiyomizu jō (ge) 清水上 (下) + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: First recorded edition of this work, followed by further seihan editions in Shōhō 2 (1645) and Tenna 2 (1682). Publisher's name not given.
Contents: A series of debates on the respective merits of Confucianism and Buddhism, in which Confucianism comes off best. Generally classed as a kana-zōshi work, but wholly didactic in character. Preface by the author on fol. 1.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003905900
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003905900
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1638
- End Date:
- 1638
- Date Range:
- 1638
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: A few stains (notably ff. 16-20 of maki 上), otherwise good. Negligible worm damage towards end.
Impression: For the most part sharp and clear, but blocks show some signs of wear.
Seals of ownership: Square red seal, Haku-shi tosho 白氏圖書, over-written (like the gedai) with black ink, impressed on title slip on front cover. Small circular black seal, Hōyō 豊葉 (early Edo period ?) on first page of each maki.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.
- 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. 2, p. 221; Edo bungaku zuroku 江戸文学図録, p. 5, pl. 11-12; Kinsei bungaku mikanbon sōsho, kana-zōshi hen 近世文学未刊本叢書• 仮名草子編, p. 9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Satow, Ernest Mason, GCMG, 1843-1929