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16108.c.15
- Record Id:
- 032-003907528
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907528
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122616738.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16108.c.15
- Title:
- Honchō gashi 本朝畫史 [本朝画史]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Kanō Einō 狩野永納, also known as Ichiyōsai 一陽齋 and Kyoō 居翁, 1631-97.
Imprint: [Kyōto] , Yoshinoya Sōbē, Maruya Genbē, Genroku 6, 1693. Kanki on fol. 25b of last maki reads: 元禄六癸酉年 ／ 十二月吉辰 ／ 吉野屋惣兵衛 ／ 丸屋源兵衛.
Description: 5 kan + supplementary maki headed Honchō gain 本朝畫印, formerly in 6 satsu, rebound in 1 satsu Japanese style. (Maki 1) ff. 5 (序), 3 (自序), 3 (hanrei 凡例), 2 (総目録), 7 (本文) ; (maki 2) ff. 45; (3) ff. 41; (4) ff. 24; (5) ff. 28; (suppl. 本朝畫印) ff. [1] , 25. 22.1 x 15.7 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 18.3 x 14.2 cm. (average). Single-line borders. Fishtail design on hanshin.
Kanbun text, with printed okurigana and kaeriten. Batsu on ff. 24-25 of supplementary vol. printed in gyōsho. Hanrei in katakana-majiri. 8 lines to page, 15 characters to line.
Renewed dark maroon covers, but retaining original printed title slip. Gedai: 本朝畫史. Naidai similar. Hashiragaki: Honchōga 本朝畫 + maki no. + folio no.
Edition: The first and only dated pre-Meiji edition published under this title. Preceded by an edition of Genroku 4 (1691) under the title Honchō gaden 本朝畫傳.
Contents: The earliest printed history of painting in Japan, comprising a brief introduction on its origins, biographical sketches of 405 artists, and an annotated list of signatures and seals of notable painters in a supplementary volume entitled Honcho gain 本朝畫印. First preface dated Enpō 6 (1678) by Hayashi Gahō 林鵞峰, second preface and batsu by the author, signed Ichiyōsai Kyoō 一陽齋居翁.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907528
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907528
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1693
- End Date:
- 1693
- Date Range:
- 1693
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Very good. A list of artists' names indexed in Honchō gain 本朝畫印, written in pencil in rōmaji, has been inserted before that maki. The same names are pencilled in upper margins.
Impression: Atozuri from moderately worn blocks.
Illustrations: One single-page sumizuri woodcut of a garden and teahouse on the first (unnumbered) folio of appendix, Honchō gain.
Seals of ownership: Large square red seal, Kairakudō 偕樂堂 (seal of Miyake Yasuyoshi 三宅康保), on first page of each maki.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from an unknown source, possibly William Anderson (1894?).
- 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 b. Painting 絵画
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 2, pp. 40, 312.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anderson, William, surgeon and collector of Japanese books, 1842-1900