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Or.59.aa.1/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003895073
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003882029
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121903819.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100187872793.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or.59.aa.1/1
- Title:
- Feiqe no monogatari
- Scope & Content:
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Variant titles : Feiqe monogatari ; Heike monogatari 平家物語.
Author/compiler: Unknown. Adaptation attributed to the Christian convert Fabian.
Imprint: IESVS NO COMPANHIA NO / Collegio Amacusa ni voite Superiores no go men- / qio to xite core uo fan ni qizamu mono nari. / Go xuxxe yori M. D. L. XXXXII. [i. e. 1592. Note, however, that the preface on fol. 1b is dated 1593, which must therefore be regarded as the date of publication.]
Description: 4 kan, 1 vol. bound in western style together with Esopo no fabvlas (q. v.) and Qincvxv (Kinkushū 金句集, q. v.). pp. [1] (title page), [1] (preface), [1-2] (address to the reader: Docujuno fitoni taixite xosu), 3-408 (main text), [6] (contents, mocvrocv 目録, and corrigenda). 16.2 x 10.6 cm.
Movable type (printed on a European printing press brought to Japan by Fr. Valignano). Printing frame 12.8-13 x 7.4 cm. No borders.
Text in romanised Japanese throughout, without kanji or kana. 24-25 lines to page, plus running title above: FEIQE on even-numbered pages and QVAN DAIICHI [i. e. 巻第一 ( ... NI 二, ... SAN 三, ... XI 四) ] on odd-numbered pages. Naidai: FEIQE / MONOGATARI. / Quan daiichi ...
Edition: The only early version of Heike monogatari 平家物語 in roman transcription. Printed at the Jesuit Mission in Amakusa.
Contents: A shortened version of Heike monogatari, written in colloquial Japanese of the late-16th century in the form of a dialogue between a certain Umanojō 右馬之允 and Kiichi Kengyō 喜一検校. The Christian convert Fabian is credited with the work of translation into colloquial Japanese, and also with authorship of the preface on verso of title page. This is a combined preface to the three works contained in this volume: Heike monogatari, Esopo no fabvlas and Kinkushū. At the end of the book, following p. 554, is a 42-page glossary explaining 'words difficult to distinguish' (分別しにくきことば) in the two works Heike monogatari and Esopo no fabvlas.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003882029
040-003895073 - Is part of:
- Or.59.aa.1 : Feiqe no monogatari ; Esopo no fabvlas ; Qincvxv
Or.59.aa.1/1 : Feiqe no monogatari - Hierarchy:
- 032-003882029[0001]/040-003895073
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or.59.aa.1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100185602542.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1592
- End Date:
- 1592
- Date Range:
- 1592
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Title page slightly soiled, but otherwise good despite much handling.
Impression: The type shows comparatively little sign of wear.
Illustrations: One engraved illustration on title page, between title above and imprint below. It depicts a martial figure, crowned, seated in an elaborate chariot drawn by two lions.
Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on verso of title page.
Manuscript notes: Neatly written interlinear and marginal notes in Portuguese on pp. 100-140. See also Japanese-Portuguese glossary noted in description of Kinkushū 金句集.
Binding: Rebound in 1928, in brown half-leather. Original binding not retained. Text printed on ganpi paper, folded in-octavo.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Unknown. Probably acquired in the latter half of the 18th century, but not from the Kaempfer Collection.
- 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 5. Literature - fiction 国文－小説 d. Gunki monogatari 軍記物語
- Publications:
- Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 73; The Jesuit mission press in Japan, 1591-1610; Kirishitan-ban no kenkyū きりしたん版の研究, p. 134 and passim; Habian-shō Kirishitan-ban Heike monogatari ハビヤン抄キリシタン版平家物語. Facsimile reproduction of text in: Amakusa-bon Heike monogatari ken'an 天草本ヘイケモノガタリ検案 and Nifon no cotoba to ... Feiqe no monogatari. (Kirishitan-ban Amakusa-bon Heike monogatari キリシタン版天草本平家物語). See also the detailed bibliography in Kirishitan-ban no kenkyū above.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)