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Or.75.g.11
- Record Id:
- 032-003905911
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003905911
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122171301.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.g.11
- Title:
- Suichōki 水鳥記
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Ibaraki Shunsaku 茨木春朔, physician of Edo, also known as Jiōbō Tarutsugu 地黃坊樽次, 1614-71.
Imprint: Kyōto, Nakamura Gohē, Kanbun 7, 1667. Kanki on last page of text reads: 寛文七年五月吉日 ／ 寺町二条下ル町 ／ 中村五兵衛.
Description: 2 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 上) ff. 36; (maki 下) ff. 45. 26.2 x 18.3 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 20.4-20.9 x 16.2 cm. Single-line borders all round, including illustrations. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana and dakuten. 10 lines to page, 18-20 characters to line.
Original dark blue front cover of maki 上 only, with original printed title slip. Gedai: 水鳥記上 Naidai and gedai identical. Hashiragaki: Suichōki Jō 水鳥記上 (ge 下) + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: Two Kyōto editions are recorded: one in Kanbun 2 (1662) and the present one of Kanbun 7 (1667). Also an undated edition (probably Kanbun / Enpō period, c. 1665-81) published in 3 satsu, 15 lines to the page, by Shōkai 松會 of Edo.
Contents: Humorous account of a sake-drinking contest held in Keian 1 (1648) between the author, Ibaraki Shunsaku, and Ikegami Tarōemon 池上太郎右衞門, also known as Daijamaru Sokofuka 大蛇丸底深, of Musashi. Written in a mock-solemn style parodying the style of gunki monogatari 軍記物語. Author's preface on ff. 1a-2a. Contents list (mokuroku) on fol. 2b of maki 上 and 1a-b of maki 下.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003905911
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003905911
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1667
- End Date:
- 1667
- Date Range:
- 1667
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Fair. Worm damage chiefly confined to upper margins. Many leaves soiled by handling, and water stains in maki 上. Cover cropped at upper edge.
Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks.
Illustrations: Single- and double-page sumizuri woodcuts in an unsophisticated style on ff. 5a, 8a, 10a, 13a, 16b-17a, 19a-b, 25b-26a, 27a, 32a, 35b of maki 上, and on ff. 3b-4a, 6b, 18a-b, 21b-22a, 25a, 26b-27a, 28b-29a, 33a, 34a, 36b, 38a, 39a, 41b-42a and 43b-44a of maki 下. Artist unknown.
Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, on first page of maki 上 and 下. On the same pages, small square red seal printed inkoku, Usuisōdō no in 于水艸堂之印, and larger oblong red seal, 對梅宇主萩原乙彦蔵于俳書二酉精舍 (seal of Hagiwara Otohiko 萩原乙彦).
Manuscript notes: Note in red ink dated Enpō 8 (1680) on last page of maki 上, after end of printed text, giving background information on author and work.
- 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. 3, p. 527; Kana-zōshi 仮名草子, vol. 2, pp. 15-6, 4 plates; Tenri toshokan kisho mokuroku 天理図書館稀書目録, vol. 3, p. 404; Nihon bungaku shoshi 日本文学書誌K, vol. 5, (上) p. 22.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anderson, William, surgeon and collector of Japanese books, 1842-1900