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16114.e.57
- Record Id:
- 032-003907531
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003907531
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122616742.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16114.e.57
- Title:
- Ezu no hayashi 繪圖の林 [絵図の林]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: [Edo] , Chōkōdō, Genroku 2, 1689 Kanki on fol. 1lb of maki 下 reads: 峕元禄二年己巳正月良辰 書肆武陽 ／ 畫工 某圖之 ／ 長岡堂 梓板.
Description: 2 kan, 2 satsu, in a chitsu case. (Maki 上) ff. 12; (maki 下) ff. 11. 27.1 x 18.5 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 22.3 x 16.9 cm. (average). Single-line borders, with internal vertical and horizontal rules framing text and illustrations on each page. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana and dakuten. Variable number of lines to page and characters to line.
Original mid-blue covers with original printed title slip, centrally placed, remaining on maki 上 only. Gedai: Gachū (tsunogaki) ezu no hayashi 畫註 (角書) 繪圖のはやし. Title from naidai at head of preface in maki 上. Hashiragaki: E jō (ge) ヱ上 (下) + folio no.
Edition: The only Edo-period edition.
Contents: Primarily a picture book, intended probably as a manual for teaching drawing and painting, with brief notes on the personages illustrated.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003907531
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003907531
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1689
- End Date:
- 1689
- Date Range:
- 1689
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Generally good. Some soiled and stained folios, and marginal worm damage (repaired).
Impression: Shozuri or near.
Illustrations: Inset sumizuri illustrations, 1 to 4 per page, on every page except those containing preface and batsu. The woodcuts depict incidents from the lives of Chinese and Japanese monks and sages, including a frontispiece (tobira-e) showing the Sixteen Arhats (Jūroku rakan 十六羅漢). Artist not identified by name in the kanki.
Seals of ownership: Large square red seal, Kimura bijutsu sōsho no in 木村美術叢書之印, on first page of maki 上 and 下.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Isseidō, 26 Feb. 1969.
- 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)