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Or.75.e.15
- Record Id:
- 032-003907186
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907186
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122414992.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.e.15
- Title:
- Man'yōshū 萬葉集 [万葉集]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Obscure, but Ōtomo no Yakamochi 大伴家持 was chiefly responsible for compilation.
Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keichō / Genna period, c. 1610-20] . No colophon.
Description: 20 kan, 10 satsu, rebound in 2 vols. (western style). Vol. 1: 27.2 x 20.2 cm.; vol. 2: 27.2 × 19.5 cm. Fukurotoji.
Movable type. Printing frame 23 x 17.4 cm. Double-line borders round all four sides, with fishtail design on hanshin.
Kanji (man'yōgana 万葉仮名) text, with printed kundoku in katakana (composed in a separate column of type from the kanji). These are supplemented in places by manuscript kanji, kundoku and kutōten in red. 8 lines (of kanji) to page, 18 characters to line.
Front covers, dull red check pattern, of maki 1 and 11 only, within new half-leather western style binding. Surviving covers, renewed c. mid-Edo period, carry mica-painted title slips with handwritten gedai: Man'yōshū maki dai... 萬葉集巻第･･･ . Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Man'yō maki 萬葉巻 + maki no. + folio no.
Edition: The second edition of this work, printed like the first (no. 437 above) with movable type.
Contents: The earliest and most celebrated anthology of Japanese poetry, compiled by Ōtomo no Yakamochi and others in the eighth century.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907186
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907186
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1610
- End Date:
- 1620
- Date Range:
- [1610-1620]
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Excellent. Every folio of vol. 1 (maki 1-10) has been reinforced, for no apparent reason, by lining with tissue on the outside of each folded leaf (!).
Impression: A sharp impression from little-worn type.
Seals of ownership: Red oblong seal with rounded ends, Shōshishi 尚志子 on first page of each maki.
Manuscript notes: Interlinear and marginal textual notes in red and black. Shikigo in black ink on last folio of maki 1, quoting the name Kigin (i. e. Kitamura Kigin 北村季吟) ends thus: 寛延三庚午年 [=1750] 五月朔 慕回書.
- 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 7. Literature - poetry 国文－詩歌 a. Man'yōshū 万葉集
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 5, pp. 554-71; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 551, 902, pl. 452; Kokuritsu kokkai toshokan shozō kichōsho kaidai 国立国会図書館所蔵貴重書解題, vol. 2, p. 24.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Satow, Ernest Mason, GCMG, 1843-1929