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Or.74.cc.7
- Record Id:
- 032-003948657
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003948657
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124928596.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.74.cc.7
- Title:
- Chōgonka zushō 長恨歌圖鈔 [長恨歌図抄]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Bai Juyi 白居易,772-846.
Imprint: N.p., Enpō 5, 1677 (date at end of batsubun in maki 5, signed by Ekitei 易亭). Batsubun reads as follows: 延寶五年仲秋望日 ／ 西郊易亭主人跋.
Description: 5 kan, 5 satsu. (1) ff. 28; (2) ff. 27; (3) ff. 27; (4) ff. 20; (5) ff. 11, 22. 29.4 x 20.6 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 23 x 16 cm. No borders, except around illustrations. Printed hanshin containing maki and folio nos. only.
Kanbun and hiragana-majiri text, with a few furigana printed in katakana, and some dakuten. 8 lines to page, 16-18 characters to line.
Original covers of soft, thick paper, creamy-white, overprinted with a decorative floral design in blue mica. Text paper (tōshi) and covers treated with gofun. Central title slips marbled in green, pink and blue. Hand-lettered gedai: Chōgonka zushō 長恨歌圖鈔. No naidai. Modern blue chitsu case.
Edition: Assuming that the batsubun date (Enpō 5, 1677) is also the date of publication, this appears to be the earliest 5-kan edition of this work printed in hiragana-majiri. It follows the brief 1-kan hiragana-majiri edition of Genna / Kan'ei period and the four 1-kan katakana-majiri editions printed with movable type in Keichō-Kan'ei periods. It is also the first substantial illustrated edition.
Contents: A selection of 7-syllable poems by Bai Juyi, each with brief elucidation and commentary in Japanese by an unknown author.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003948657
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003948657
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 5 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1677
- End Date:
- 1677
- Date Range:
- 1677
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Fair to good. Some worm damage in maki 1, 3 and 5. Most folios split along fore-edge, giving impression of single sheets printed on one side only.
Impression: Shozuri. Beautifully printed from a fine calligraphic hanshita.
Illustrations: A total of 35 double-page sumizuri illustrations in Chinese style: 16 in maki 1, 20 in maki 2, 18 in maki 3, 12 in maki 4 and 2 in maki 5. All illustrations have been tastefully hand-coloured, possibly in mid-Edo period.
Seals of ownership: Round red seal within two concentric red circles, Kaku 覺, on first page of maki 1 and last page of maki 5.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Shibunkaku, 28 Dec. 1967.
- Finding Aids:
- Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). A. Chinese works 漢籍 7. Chinese literature 中国文学
- Publications:
- Naikaku bunko kokusho bunrui mokuroku 内閣文庫国書分類目録, p. 1141; Chōgonka biwakō shō shohon no kokugogaku-teki kenkyū 長恨歌・琵琶行抄諸本の国語学的研究, pp. 753-1045 (facsimile reproduction of the present copy).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)