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16115.f.11
- Record Id:
- 032-003953511
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003953511
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100130151140.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16115.f.11
- Title:
- Hosokawa chanoyu no sho 細川茶湯之書
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Hosokawa Tadaoki 細川忠興, also known as Sansai 三齋, 1563-1645.
Imprint: N.p., Kanbun 8, 1668. Publisher not named. Kanki on fol. 39b of maki 下 reads: 寛文八戊申孟春吉旦開板.
Description: 3 kan, 5 satsu, in a box. (Satsu 1) inaki 上, ff. 1-20; (satsu 2) maki 上, ff. 21-43; (satsu 3) maki 中, ff. 1-25; (satsu 4) maki 中, ff. 26-52; (satsu 5) maki 下, ff. 39. 22.5 x 14.4 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 16.7 x 11.9 cm. Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text, with dakuten and a few furigana. 9 lines to page, 18-20 characters to line.
Original light fawn covers, with remains of original title slips on satsu 1 and 2. Gedai printed over mica-painted title slips: 細川三齋茶湯之書. Title from gedai and from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Cha jō (chū, ge) 茶上 (中, 下) + folio no.
Edition: The only pre-modern edition of this work. A 4-line batsu at the end of maki 下, preceding the kanki, is dated Kan'ei 18 (1641) and ends as follows: 寛永十八年極月吉日写之.
Contents: A guide to the tea ceremony and how it should be performed.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003953511
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003953511
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 5 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1668
- End Date:
- 1668
- Date Range:
- 1668
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Generally good, except for worm damage in satsu 1-3 and brown stains in upper margins of satsu 2.
Impression: Atozuri from slightly worn blocks.
Illustrations: Simple sketches on ff. 26-29 of maki 上 illustrating tea utensils and their placing in the tearoom.
Seals of ownership: None.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired at Glendining's sale, London, 22 March 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 18. Amateur arts 諸芸 a. Tea ceremony 茶道
- Publications:
- Text reprinted in Chadō koten zenshū 茶道古典全集, vol. 11.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- A distinguished warrior, Hosokawa Tadaoki served successively under Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu, and was instrumental in leading Ieyasu's forces to victory at Sekigahara in 1600. He was also a man of cultivated tastes, a waka poet, painter and adept at the tea ceremony. From 1619 he devoted the rest of his life to cultural pursuits.