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Or.81.c.17
- Record Id:
- 032-003948689
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003948689
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124928637.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.81.c.17
- Title:
- Shibahō 司馬法
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Fushimi, Keichō 11,1606] . No colophon. For dating, see below.
Description: 3 kan (上, 中, 下), combined in 1 satsu. (上) ff. 7; (中) ff. 4; (下) ff. 4. 27.9 x 19.6 cm. Fukurotoji.
Movable type. Printing frame 22 x 16.3 cm. Double-line borders, with 'flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Vertical rules between columns of type.
Kanbun text without kunten or other reading marks. 8 lines to page, 17 characters to line.
Chestnut-brown covers, old but not original. Traces of earlier printed title slips (from another book ?) on both front and back (!) covers. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Shiba jō 司馬 上 (chū 中, ge 下) + folio no.
Edition: Fushimi-ban 伏見版, printed at Fushimi by order of Tokugawa Ieyasu. One of the seven works comprising the Shichisho 七書 (Chinese: Qishu) in 4 satsu, printed at Fushimi (Kyōto) in Keichō 11, 1606. (Satsu 2 contained Shibahō and Utsuryōshi 尉繚子 together.)
Contents: A Chinese work of military science, Simafa 司馬法, dating probably from the Han period.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003948689
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003948689
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1606
- End Date:
- 1606
- Date Range:
- 1606
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good, apart from some worm damage in maki 中 and 下.
Impression: Mostly clear and sharp, but type shows some signs of wear.
Seals of ownership: None.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Gyokueidō, 15 May 1979.
- 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 11. Military science 兵法
- Publications:
- Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 217-8, 697-9; Ryūmon bunko zenpon shomoku 竜門文庫善本書目, pp. 175-6; Takagi bunko kokatsuji-ban mokuroku 高木文庫古活字版目録, p. 60; Keiō gijuku toshokan-zō wakanjo zenpon kaidai 慶応義塾図書館蔵和漢書善本解題, p. 131.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)