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Or.64.b.3
- Record Id:
- 032-003907184
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907184
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122414988.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.64.b.3
- Title:
- Shinsen ruijū ōrai 新撰類聚往來
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Tanpō 丹峰, Buddhist monk (dates and biography unknown).
Imprint: Kyōto, Tsurugaya Kyubē, Keian 1, 1648. Kanki on fol. 35b of maki 下 reads: 慶安元年五月吉日 ／ 京寺町蛸藥師前敦賀屋久兵衛開板.
Description: 3 kan, formerly in 3 satsu, bound in 1 vol. (western style). (上) ff. [1] , 42; (中) ff. 43; (下) ff. 35. Fol. 11 of maki 上 has been wrongly bound in before fol. 1 of that maki. 25.8 x 19 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 22 x 17.5 cm. No borders. No vertical rules.
Kanbun text with printed kunten in katakana and some kaeriten. 7 lines to page, 12-15 characters to line.
Soiled off-white front cover only, renewed c. late Edo period, within a modern western style half-leather binding. Handwritten gedai on title slip of same period: 新撰類聚往來上中下. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Ruijū jō 類聚上 (chū 中, ge 下) + folio no.
Edition: The only recorded Edo period edition. Compiler's name, in the form 丹峰和尚撰焉, precedes kanki on fol. 35b of maki 下.
Contents: A guide to letter writing, with selected words and phrases recommended for use, compiled late-15th to early 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907184
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907184
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1648
- End Date:
- 1648
- Date Range:
- 1648
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good, but with some unrepaired worm damage. Cropped at upper edge.
Impression: Atozuri, from worn blocks.
Seals of ownership: None.
Manuscript notes: A one-page abbreviated list of contents has been inserted at head of maki 上, in an early Edo hand.
- Custodial History:
- Formerly owned by Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866)
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.
- 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 c. Letter writing 消息文
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 488; reprinted in Nihon kyōkasho taikei, ōrai hen 日本教科書大系・往来編, vol. 4, pp. 360-474.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Siebold, Philipp Franz von, 1796-1866