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16115.f.12
- Record Id:
- 032-003907527
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907527
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122616737.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16115.f.12
- Title:
- Setsugetsushū 雪月集
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Not recorded. Likely to be the work of Endō Genkan 遠藤元閑, writer of the preface.
Imprint: Rakuyō [Kyōto] , Umemura Yaemon, Genroku 5, 1692. Kanki on fol. 33b of maki 下 reads: 元禄五壬申年孟春日 ／ 書林洛陽五條橋砌 ／ 梅村彌右衛門壽梓.
Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu, in a box. (Maki 上) ff. [1] (序), 20; (maki 中) ff. 15; (maki 下) ff. 1-10, 11 / 15, 16-33. 21.3 x 16 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 18.5 x 14.6 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri and katakana-majiri text, with few furigana. Variable no. of lines to page and characters to line.
Renewed cloth covers, late Edo period, with colour-printed designs of artists' seals in ornamental frames. New plain endpaper, not pasted down on inner covers. Renewed title slips painted silver, now tarnished. Manuscript gedai: 雪月集. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: 上, 下 (lacking from maki 中) + folio no.
Edition: First edition, in 2 kan according to Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録, but some copies (including those in Waseda, Hibiya (Kaga Bunko) and the present copy) have a middle volume sub-titled 古今名物茶入茶碗之圖. Later editions followed in Enkyō 3 (1746) and Bunka 14 (1817).
Contents: An illustrated work with short descriptive text on paintings, room ornaments, gardens and adjuncts to the tea ceremony.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907527
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907527
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 3 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1692
- End Date:
- 1692
- Date Range:
- 1692
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Generally good. Some folios soiled and stained, but no worm damage.
Impression: Shozuri or near.
Illustrations: Sumizuri sketches of hanging scrolls, bonsai, ikebana, tea wares, house ornaments and garden designs, on almost every page.
Seals of ownership: None.
- 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 17. Fine arts 芸術 a. General 一般
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Flower arrangement, Japanese