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16107.h.13

Record Id:

032-003905901

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003905901

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

16107.h.13

Title:

Kuyamigusa 悔草

Scope & Content:

Author/compiler: Inoue Kozaemon 井上小左衞門, fl. c. 1630-50. 日本古典文学大辞典.

Imprint: [Edo] , Shōkai 松會, Kanbun 9, 1669. Kanki on fol. 18a of maki 下 reads: 寛文九歳五月吉旦／松會開板.

Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu, in a chitsu case. (Maki 上) ff. 21; (中) ff. 19; (下) ff. 18. 27.3 x 18.9 cm. Fukurotoji.

Blockprint. Printing frame 22.8 x 17.2 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.

Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana, dakuten and kutōten. 14 lines to page, 26-28 characters to line.

Original mid-blue covers, rubbed and damaged. Title slips missing, hence no gedai. Title from preface, mokurokudai, bidai and naidai at head of text in each maki. Hashiragaki: Kuyami jō (chū, ge) くやミ上 (中, 下) + folio no.

Edition: The fourth recorded edition. Shōkai 松會 editions were published at Edo in Kanbun 9 (1669) the present copy and again in Enpō 8 (1680). Earlier editions were published in Shōhō 4 (1647), reprinted in Keian 2 (1649) and Manji 2 (1659).

Contents: A didactic kana-zōshi work, in style resembling a zuihitsu, containing the author's regrets at past misdeeds, with warnings to his descendants to learn lessons from them.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Japanese woodblock materials

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003905901

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032-003905901

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

3 volumes

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Japanese

Scripts:

Japanese

Start Date:

1669

End Date:

1669

Date Range:

1669

Era:

Place of Origin:

Japan

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Condition: Fair. No worm damage, but some folios soiled and stained, especially in maki 下. Most folios split along fore-edge, unrepaired.

Impression: Sharp and clear, near-shozuri.

Illustrations: A total of 9 single-page sumizuri illustrations, 3 to each maki.

Seals of ownership: None, but a kashihon'ya stamp of Ōsakaya, 魚沼郡／大坂屋／水口村, is impressed on first and last pages of each maki.

Source of Acquisition:

Acquired from Rinrōkaku, 31 Jan. 1967.

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. 304; Kinsei bungaku mikanbon sōsho, kana-zōshi hen 近世文学未刊本叢書・仮名草子編, pp. 4-6, 117-72 (reprint of text).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)