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16055.c.33
- Record Id:
- 032-003953450
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003953450
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100130150961.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16055.c.33
- Title:
- Izayoi no nikki いさよひの日記
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Izayoi nikki 十六夜日記
Author/compiler: Abutsu-Ni 阿佛尼, waka poet, lady-in-waiting at the imperial court, and afterwards Buddhist nun, d. 1283.
Imprint: Rakuyō [Kyōto] , Hayashi Izumi, Manji 2, 1659. Kanki on fol. 49b reads: 万治二己亥歳季夏中旬 ／ 洛陽今出川 ／ 林和泉板行.
Description: 1 kan, 2 satsu, in a box. (Satsu 1) ff. 1-18; (satsu 2) ff. 19-49.22.4 x 15.2 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 16.8 x 11.9 cm. Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, without furigana. 10 lines to page, 14 characters to line.
Mid-blue covers (original ?), with hand-lettered title slips. Gedai: (satsu 1) いさよひの日記; (satsu 2) 十六夜日記. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: I イ + folio no.
Edition: The only pre-modern blockprinted edition of known date. Preceded by a movable type edition of Genna or early Kan'ei period, without illustrations.
Contents: A poetic travel diary, recounting Abutsu's journey to the military court at Kamakura to plead her son's case for a share in Tameie's inheritance. The diary ends with a 151-line chōka 長歌, and contains also 116 waka poems, mostly of her own composition.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003953450
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003953450
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1659
- End Date:
- 1659
- Date Range:
- 1659
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Fair. Water-stained folios and some worm damage (repaired by urauchi patching) in both satsu.
Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks.
Illustrations: 4 single-page sumizuri woodcuts in conventional Tosa style, on ff. 7a, 19a, 35a and 43b.
Seals of ownership: Small square red seal (uni dentified) on first page of each satsu.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Richard Lane, 19 Nov. 1956.
- 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 6.Literature - prose 国文－散文 a.Diaries 日記
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 126; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 528.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)