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16101.c.6
- Record Id:
- 032-003907187
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907187
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122414993.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16101.c.6
- Title:
- Man'yō shūsuishō 萬葉拾穗抄 [万葉拾穂抄]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Kitamura Kigin 北村季吟, 1624-1705.
Imprint: N.p., n.d. [published in, or soon after, Genroku 3 元禄三年 (1690), date of first preface; second preface is dated Jōkyō 4 貞享丁卯 (1687), and batsu at end of maki 20 is dated Jōkyō 5 (1688) ] .
Description: 20 kan, formerly in 30 satsu, now rebound in 3 vols. western style. 21.7 x 15.8 cm. (average). Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 18.2 x 13 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No printed hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with mana 真名 characters printed alongside text of Man'yōshū poems. 16 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line.
Renewed buff, brown and silver front covers of maki 1 之上, 12 之下 (wrongly bound in at head of maki 7) and maki 13 十三, only. Printed title slips, possibly original to this issue, on covers of maki 12 下 and 13 only. Gedai: 萬葉拾穗抄. Naidai at head of preface: 萬葉拾穗抄. Naidai at head of each maki: Man'yōshū 萬葉集. Man 万 + maki no. + folio no. printed on inner (binding) edge of each folio recto.
Edition: No dated edition of the Edo period survives. The first edition was published in 20 satsu with second preface dated Jōkyō 4 (1687) and batsu dated Jōkyō 5 (1688). For the second edition, published in 30 satsu, a further preface was added, with date Genroku 3 (1690), as noted under Imprint above.
Contents: Text of the great 8th century waka anthology Man'yōshū 萬葉集, with explanatory text and detailed commentary. Begun by Matsunaga Teitoku 松永貞德 in Tenna 2 (1682), continued over a period of 4 years by Kitamura Kigin 北村季吟, and completed in Jōkyō 3 (1686). The date of completion of each maki is recorded at the end of that maki.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907187
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907187
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 3 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1688
- End Date:
- 1688
- Date Range:
- 1688
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good, apart from water stains in maki 1, 7, 11 and elsewhere.
Impression: For the most part sharp and clear, but with some evidence of block wear.
Seals of ownership: None.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated to the British Museum by (Sir) Ernest M. Satow 13 June 1885.
- 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, p. 576.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Satow, Ernest Mason, GCMG, 1843-1929