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16107.a.35
- Record Id:
- 032-003953506
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003953506
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100130151135.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16107.a.35
- Title:
- Yoshiwara koi no michibiki 吉原戀の道引 [吉原恋の道引]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Unknown.
Illustrator: Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣, 1618-94.
Imprint: [Edo] , Hondoiya, Enpō 6, 1678. Kanki following batsu on fol. 21b reads: 延寶六年清明日 ／ 通油町 本問屋開板.
Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a buckram case. ff. 21. 26.5 x 18.4 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 23.5 x 16.8 cm. (average). Single-line borders, with a single horizontal rule 2 cm. below upper border, separating upper margin from text and illustrations. Double-line ornamental frame separating text (above) from illustrations (below). No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana only in preface and batsu. 15-16 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line.
Renewed covers of green brocade decorated with floral pattern. Renewed title slip with manuscript gedai: 吉原恋の道引. Title from naidai on fol. 1a. Hashiragaki: Yoshiwara michibiki 吉原道引 + folio no.
Edition: The only recorded pre-modern edition.
Contents: A pictorial guide to the Yoshiwara district and its environs, compiler unknown. The illustrations are reliably attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003953506
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003953506
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1678
- End Date:
- 1678
- Date Range:
- 1678
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Fair. Many folios soiled and rubbed. Torn and damaged folios in places, repaired by urauchi re-backing throughout.
Impression: Slightly atozuri, but blocks show only moderate signs of wear.
Illustrations: Double-page sumizuri woodcuts on every page from fol. 1b to 21a, depicting scenes in and around the Yoshiwara. Each mihiraki illustration occupies the lower part of the page, within a decorative frame. All illustrations have been hand-coloured at an unknown date, and are unsigned. Sumizuri designs of mon appear in the upper margin of each page.
Seals of ownership: Two square red seals, Hayashi Tadamasa shozōin 林忠正所藏印 (seals of Hayashi Tadamasa) on first and last pages. Also an elongated red seal in shape of a koto, Kokōtei zōhon 古好亭藏本 (seal of the Horizu 堀津 family) on first page.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Transferred from the British Museum in 1973.
- 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
- Publications:
- Ukiyoe jiten 浮世絵事典, vol. 3, p. 427. Text transcribed, with text and illustrations reproduced in facsimile, in Yoshiwara fūzoku shiryō 吉原風俗資料, pp. 71-122.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)