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16053.b.29
- Record Id:
- 032-003953518
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003953518
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100130151147.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16053.b.29
- Title:
- Buke chōhōki 武家重寶記 [武家重宝記]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Namura Jōhaku 苗村丈伯, physician, fl. late-17th century. Preface of this work signed Sōdenshi 艸田子.
Imprint: Kyōto, Yoshinaga Shichirōbē; Ōsaka, Kariganeya Shōbē, Genroku 7, 1694. Kanki on fol. 20b of maki 5 reads: 元禄七年甲戌正月吉日 ／ 洛陽書林堂 ／ 吉永七郎兵衛 ／ 大坂･･･ ／ 雁金屋庄兵衛 ／ 板.
Description: 5 kan, 5 satsu, in a box. (Maki 1) ff. 20; (2) ff. 20; (3) ff. 20; (4) ff. 20; (5) ff. 20. 22.4 x 16 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 18.7 x 14.4 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 10 lines to page, 23-25 characters to line.
Original pale fawn covers, with original printed title slips on maki 2-5. (Manuscript gedai on maki 1.) Printed gedai: E-iri (tsunogaki) buke chōhōki 繪入 (角書) 武家重寶記. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: 武家重宝記 + maki no. + folio no.
Edition: The first and only pre-modern edition.
Contents: A manual for bushi warriors, comprising codes of conduct (maki 1), archery (maki 2), armour (maki 3), weapons (maki 4) and horsemanship and falconry (maki 5).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003953518
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003953518
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 5 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1694
- End Date:
- 1694
- Date Range:
- 1694
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Generally good. No worm damage, but some soiled folios and a few stains.
Impression: Atozuri, from blocks showing marked signs of wear.
Illustrations: A total of 14 full-page sumizuri illustrations, 6 double-page (mihiraki) and 8 single, distributed as follows: (maki 1) 1 double, 3 single; (2) 1 double, 2 single; (3) 1 double; (4) 2 double, 1 single; (5) 1 double, 2 single. In addition, the work contains a large number of small woodcuts and diagrams depicting military accoutrements, arrowheads and feathers, horse trappings, falcons, etc. One illustration in maki 4, ff. 16-17, shows a cannon being fired.
Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, □秀園圖書, on first page of each maki. Small red seal in a frame of bronze vessel shape, 星埜, on inner back cover of each maki. One oblong red seal (unidentified) on first page of maki 1.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired by purchase, Feb. 1960.
- 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 19. Military arts 武術
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 5, p. 248; Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , p. 84.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)