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Or.75.ff.7
- Record Id:
- 032-003907205
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907205
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122415015.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.75.ff.7
- Title:
- Mugonshō 無言抄
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Ōgo 應其, Shingon monk, also known as Mokujiki Shōnin 木食上人, 1536-1608.
Imprint: N.p. [Kyōto, Sugita Ryōan ?-see under Edition below] , Genna 9, 1623. Kanki on last folio of maki 下 reads: 元和九年正月中旬.
Description: 3 kan, formerly in 3 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. Folios unnumbered. 27.9 x 19.2 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 21.5 x 17.8 cm. (average). No borders. No printed hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text. Words and phrases from renga poems printed in large script; explanatory text in smaller size. 8-9 lines to page (large characters), 14-16 lines (small characters), variable number of characters to line.
Original dark blackish-brown front cover of satsu 上 only, with original printed title slip (damaged). Gedai: Mugonshō jō 無言抄 上. Title from naidai at head of each maki. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: The earliest blockprinted edition of this work, following movable type editions of Keichō period. Copies of this Genna 9 (1623) edition held by Tenri (Wataya Bunko) and Yonezawa Toshokan include the publisher's name, Gentarō 源太郎, in the kanki. This is missing from the present copy.
Contents: A collection of words and phrases suitable for use in composing renga 連歌 poetry, grouped in various categories, with rules governing the composition of renga.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907205
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907205
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1623
- End Date:
- 1623
- Date Range:
- 1623
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Fair to good. No worm damage, but a number of folios are stained or soiled.
Impression: Atozuri, from blocks showing some signs of wear.
Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, on first page of each maki.
Manuscript notes: Shikigo (early Edo period) recording ownership, on last page of maki 中 reads: 所持□精舎蔵 ／ 正 (花押). Part of this is repeated, with the rest obliterated, on last page of maki 下. Old bookseller's note on front mikaeshi: 三冊金五十文ヤマト ／ アマ.
- 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 c. Renga 連歌
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 5, p. 664; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 558; Wataya bunko renga haikaisho mokuroku 綿屋文庫連歌俳諧書目録, p. 2; Yonezawa zenpon no kenkyū to kaidai 米沢善本の研究と解題, p. 319; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 3, p. 147 (recording a seihan edition without kanki).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Satow, Ernest Mason, GCMG, 1843-1929