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16001.c.2
- Record Id:
- 032-003907530
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122616740.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16001.c.2
- Title:
- Ehon hōkan 繪本寶鑑 [絵本宝鑑]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Tachibana Muneshige 橘宗重
Illustrator: Hasegawa Tōun 長谷川等雲, fl. mid- to late-17th century.
Imprint: Edo, Hiranoya Seizaburō; Kyōto, Kosaji Han'emon; Ōsaka, Kankidō Shigeyuki, n.d. (kōjo (endnote) dated Jōkyō 5, 1688). Kanki on fol. 37b of maki 6 reads: 東武 平埜屋清三郎 ／ 中華 小佐治半右衛門 ／ 攝陽 貫器堂 ／ 重之梓行.
Description: 7 kan, formerly in 6 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (1) ff. [1] (tobira-e), 5 (prefaces - 発題 + 自序), 7 (目録), 12 (本文) ; (2) ff. 26; (3) ff. 25; (4) ff. 38; (5) ff. 38; (6) ff. 37. 21.9 x 16.3 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 19 x 14.8 cm. Single-line borders all round. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana, kutōten and dakuten. 11 lines to page, 20-22 characters to line.
Original grey-green front cover of maki 1 only, with printed title slip in centre. Gedai (in seal script) : Ehon hōkan 繪本寶鑑. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Ehon 繪本 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: First recorded edition, probably published in Jōkyō 5 (1688), the date given in kōjo 後序. Preface is dated Jōkyō 4 (1687).
Contents: A collection of stories and anecdotes derived from ancient China. With its wealth of illustration, the book probably served also as a drawing and painting manual.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907530
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907530
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1688
- End Date:
- 1688
- Date Range:
- 1688
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Excellent. A clean copy with no worm damage, but repaired corners in maki 2. Cropped at top and bottom.
Impression: An early impression from little-worn blocks.
Illustrations: Copiously illustrated with full-page and part-page sumizuri woodcuts, 185 in all, depicting episodes in Chinese history and legend. Tobira-e preceding preface depicts the 16 Lohans 羅漢, printed in pale green, with dragon and cloud border. An interesting early example of printing in colour.
Seals of ownership: None.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from William Anderson, 13 February 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 c. Book illustration 絵本・絵入本
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Another copy of no. 611 above, identical with it in all respects except that this copy lacks the tobira-e and has no seals of ownership
- Names:
- Anderson, William, surgeon and collector of Japanese books, 1842-1900