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ORB 30/306
- Record Id:
- 032-003907197
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907197
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122415005.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- ORB 30/306
- Title:
- Sanjūrokkasen 三十六歌仙
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: Edo, Sudō Gonbē, Genroku 9, 1696. Kanki on last folio verso reads: 元禄九丙子歳卯月吉祥日 ／ 江戸橋中通川瀬石町山口屋 ／ 須藤權兵衞開版.
Description: 2 kan, 2 satsu, in a buckram chitsu case. 26.9 x 18.5 cm. Fukurotoji.
Renewed (18th century ?) mid-blue covers, decorated with a painted design of trees and grasses in silver. No title slips. No naidai. Title from first line of preface.
Edition: This is the only edition so far located, between the Saga-bon of Keichō period and the edition illustrated by Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, published in 1789. Preface signed Tōsenshi 桃仙子.
Contents: Selected poems and portraits of the Thirty-six Poets, beginning with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro 柿本人麻呂 and ending with Nakatsukasa 中務. Opposite each portrait and poem appears a brief biographical note on the poet, a comment on the poem and a scene from it.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907197
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907197
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1696
- End Date:
- 1696
- Date Range:
- 1696
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Fair. Maki 下 marred by torn first folio and water stains. Worm damage in both maki.
Impression: Sharp and clear, near-shozuri.
Illustrations: Portrait of each poet (and text of one of his poems) on each folio, recto or verso, and a sumizuri woodcut illustrating the poem on the opposite page. Illustrations unsigned but reliably attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣.
Seals of ownership: None, apart from round British Museum stamp (dated 1938) and square ex-libris stamp of the Samuel Tuke Collection, ST.
- Custodial History:
- Formerly owned by Samuel Tuke (1855-1938)
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased by the British Museum from E. W. Tuke in 1938.
- 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 b. Waka 和歌
- Publications:
- Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , pp. 111-2.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)