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Or.59.b.3

Record Id:

032-003907524

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003907524

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or.59.b.3

Title:

Honchō ikō 本朝醫考 [本朝医考]

Scope & Content:

Author/compiler: Kurokawa Dōyū 黒川道祐, also known as Bairin 梅林, d. 1691.

Imprint: [Kyōto] , Tawara Nizaemon, n.d. (preface dated Kanbun 3 寛文三年, 1663). Kanki on fol. 28b of maki 下 reads: 二條通鶴屋町田原仁左衛門刻.

Description: 3 kan, formerly in 3 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 上) ff. 26; (中) ff. 38; (下) ff. 28. 26.2 x 17.4 cm. Fukurotoji.

Blockprint. Printing frame 20.9 x 14.8 cm. Double-line borders with fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text with printed okurigana and kaeriten. 12 lines to page, 18 characters to line.

Original vermilion front cover only, embossed with a geometric rhomboid pattern. No title slip or gedai. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Ikō jō (chū, ge) 醫考上 (中, 下) + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.

Edition: The only recorded pre-modern edition of this work.

Contents: The earliest work on the history of medicine in Japan. Maki 上 and 中 contain brief biographies of eminent physicians from ancient times to the beginning of the 17th century. Maki 下 lists categories of products of the various provinces used in medical prescriptions.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Japanese woodblock materials

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003907524

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Hierarchy:

032-003907524

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Japanese

Scripts:

Japanese

Start Date:

1663

End Date:

1663

Date Range:

1663

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Place of Origin:

Japan

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Condition: Very good. Few worm holes, skilfully repaired.

Impression: An early impression, shozuri or near.

Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Yōan'in zōsho 養安院蔵書, ex-libris of the Manase 曲直瀨 family of physicians of the Edo period. Yōan'in 養安院 was the honorific name (gō) awarded to Manase Shōrin 曲直瀨正琳 (1565-1611) by Emperor Go-Yōzei in 1600, and adopted by successive generations of the Manase family.

Custodial History:

Formerly owned by Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866)

Source of Acquisition:

Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.

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 15. Medicine 医学

Publications:

Kinsei kanpō igakusho shūsei 近世漢方医学書集成, vol. 40, pp. 5-188 (facsimile reproduction of text of this edition).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Siebold, Philipp Franz von, 1796-1866