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Or.59.b.28
- Record Id:
- 032-003907178
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907178
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122414980.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.59.b.28
- Title:
- Tsurezuregusa 徒然草
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Yoshida Kenkō 吉田兼好, c. 1283-1352, known as Kenkō Hōshi 兼好法師.
Imprint: N.p., Mitsuhiro 光廣, Keichō 18, 1613. Kanki on last (unnumbered) folio reads: 慶長癸丑仲秋日 黃門光廣.
Description: 2 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 上) ff. [95] ; (maki 下) ff. [75] (folios unnumbered). 26.3 x 19.5 cm. Fukurotoji.
Movable type. Printing frame 22 x 18 cm. No borders. No printed hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text without furigana, printed in cursive style. 10 lines to page, 16-17 characters to line.
Original dark blue front cover of maki 上 only, embossed with a chequerboard design, within a modern western style half-leather binding. Title slip missing, but its original position in centre is clear. Gedai faintly handwritten in sōsho: 徒然草. No naidai. Title from gedai.
Edition: This is the celebrated Karasumaru-bon 烏丸本, so called because Karasumaru Mitsuhiro 烏丸光廣 (1579-1638) revised the text for this edition and sponsored its publication. Printed from movable type throughout, except for a blockprinted batsu and kanki on the last folio, signed by Mitsuhiro. The typeface is modelled on the calligraphy of Miyake Kisai (Bōyō) 三宅寄齋 (亡羊), whose name appears in the batsu.
Contents: A miscellany of short notes, anecdotes, meditative jottings, reminiscences and fragments of narrative, composed c. 1330.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907178
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907178
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1613
- End Date:
- 1613
- Date Range:
- 1613
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good. Some traces of worm damage, skilfully repaired.
Impression: Clear and sharp.
Seals of ownership: None.
- 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 6. Literature - prose 国文－散文 b. Zuihitsu 随筆
- Publications:
- Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 207, 525, 892, pl. 387; Takagi bunko kokatsuji-ban mokuroku 高木文庫古活字版目録, pp. 14-5. See also references under Edition above.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Satow, Ernest Mason, GCMG, 1843-1929