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16104.b.20/6
- Record Id:
- 033-003881383
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003808397
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121499714.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16104.b.20/6
- Title:
- Imamiya no shinjū 今宮心中
- Additional Titles:
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Jibē okisa imamiya no shinjū 治兵衞おきさ今宮の心中
- Scope & Content:
- Author/compiler: Chikamatsu Monzaemon 近松門左衞門, 1653-1725.Imprint: Undated kanki reads: 大坂･･･ 正本屋山本九兵衞・山本九右衞門 .
Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu. Folios unnumbered. 22.5 × 16.0 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. No borders or printed hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with printed dakuten. 8 lines to page, variable number of characters to line.
Handwritten title slip on front cover reads: 治兵衞おきさ今宮の心中. Title from naidai at head of text.
One of a collection of shōhon 正本 (jōruri chanter's certified texts) of 27 jōruri plays by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. The chanter's (太夫の) certificate is printed on the last page preceding the kanki. The certificate is signed by Takemoto Chikugonojō 竹本筑後掾 (=Takemoto Gidayū I 竹本義太夫).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003808397
033-003881383 - Is part of:
- 16104.b.20 : [Chikamatsu shōhonshū] [近松正本集]
16104.b.20/6 : Imamiya no shinjū 今宮心中 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003808397[0006]/033-003881383
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: 16104.b.20
- Record Type (Level):
- SubFonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (39 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1710
- End Date:
- 1710
- Date Range:
- 1710
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good.
Original blue covers with embossed flower pattern.
Seals of ownership: Illegible red and black seals on first and last pages.
Manuscript notes: Note in red ink on mikaeshi, possibly by Ryūtei Tanehiko, reads: かけ鯛心中 / 心中たつた今宮同本也. Short note by W. G. Aston in English bound in at the head of the volume.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from the executors of the late W. G. Aston, 12 Oct. 1912.
- 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 8. Literature - poetry 国文－詩歌 d. Jōruri 浄瑠璃
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aston, W. G. (William George), 1841-1911,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76373301
Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist, 1653-1725,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61595937 - Subjects:
- Japanese drama -- Edo period, 1600-1868