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16100.c.21
- Record Id:
- 032-003907199
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907199
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122415008.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16100.c.21
- Title:
- Shigi no hanekaki 鴫羽搔
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: [Kyōto] , Yoshida Saburōbē, Genroku 4, 1691. Kanki on fol. 108b (maki 下) reads: 元禄四年辛未正月吉辰 ／ 書肆 吉田三郎兵衛.
Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu, in a box. (Maki 上) ff. 1-31, 32 / 40, 41; (maki 中) ff. 42-78; (maki 下) ff. 79-108. 21.6 x 14.6 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 16.8 x 12.3 cm. (average). Single-line borders. Horizontal rule separating text from illustration in most cases. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text. 10 lines to page, except in poems above illustrations; variable no. of characters to line.
Faded dark blue covers, probably renewed, with renewed title slips and manuscript gedai: 鴫羽搔. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Shiki しき + folio no.
Edition: A late impression from the first edition. Kanki of earlier impressions contain the publisher's name Itō Heihachi 伊藤平八 as well as Yoshida Saburōbē but all were printed from the same blocks. A further edition followed in Tenmei 1 (1781).
Contents: An anthology of waka poems on numerical themes, e.g. the four seasons, eight landscape views, etc.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907199
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907199
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 3 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1691
- End Date:
- 1691
- Date Range:
- 1691
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good, but with some worm damage (repaired) and soiled folios.
Impression: Atozuri from moderately worn blocks.
Illustrations: A total of 86 sumizuri illustrations, occupying the lower half of the page: 15 in maki 上, of which 12 are portraits of poets, 32 in maki 中, and 34 in maki 下. Most of them illustrate scenes from the poems.
Seals of ownership: Two square red seals (unidentified) on first page of maki 上 and last page of maki 下.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired at Glendining's sale, London, 22 March 1956.
- 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:
- Kokusho kaidai 国書解題, p. 875; Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , p. 83.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)