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16100.c.35
- Record Id:
- 032-003907202
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907202
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122415011.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16100.c.35
- Title:
- Shin kasen 新謌仙 [新歌仙]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: [Kyōto] , Hayashi Izuminojō, n.d. [c. Kanbun period, 1661-73 ?] . Publisher's name printed on back endpaper reads: 林和泉掾板行.
Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a chitsu case. ff. 18. 23.7 x 15.9 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 16.8 (average) x 12.1 cm. Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 6-7 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line.
Original embossed vermilion covers, with title slip on left bearing printed gedai: 新謌仙. No naidai. Title from gedai. Hashiragaki: Shin kasen 新歌仙 + folio no. Printed on good quality tōshi 唐紙 paper.
Edition: Not identified. An edition was published in Kanbun 1 (1661) and a 7-satsu set entitled Kasen 歌仙, comprising Ko kasen 古歌仙, Chūko kasen 中古歌仙, Shin kasen 新歌仙, etc., was also published in Kanbun 1 (1661). The present copy may belong to one of these editions.
Contents: A new version of the Thirty-six Poets (Sanjurokkasen 三十六歌仙) comprising emperors, court nobles and other poets, beginning with Emperor Go-Toba and ending with Saigyō Hōshi 西行法師. One poem and a portrait of the poet on each page.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907202
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907202
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1661
- End Date:
- 1673
- Date Range:
- [1661-1673]
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Excellent.
Impression: Shozuri. A sharp, black impression.
Illustrations: Portraits of the 'new' 36 poets, printed sumizuri in the lower half of each page. Illustrator unknown.
Seals of ownership: None.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Isseidō, 24 April 1963.
- 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:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 632; Okayama daigaku shozō Ikeda-ke bunko sōmokuroku 岡山大学所蔵池田家文庫総目録, p. 143.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)