Shucharon 酒茶論

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.59.d.11
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1624-1644]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Good, apart from slight water staining and worming. Margins, and also covers, cropped at top and bottom, probably long before rebinding. Impression: Not shozuri, but little evidence of worn blocks. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [c. Kan'ei period, 1624-44] . Handwritten shikigo on endpaper of back cover reading 慶長元歳丙申閏七月廿一日 is in a late-Edo period hand and does not relate to the date of printing. It was probably written in imitation of an early imprint. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in western style. ff. [16] , unnumbered. 26.4 x 19.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 21.7 x 17.8 cm. No borders, vertical rules or printed hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with furigana, dakuten and kutōten. 12 lines to page, 19-21 characters to line. Original dark brown covers, front and back, within western style half-leather binding. Original pale-blue blockprinted title slip on left. Gedai: Shucharon 酒茶論 in gyōsho. No naidai. Edition: The only edition printed during the Edo period. Contents: An otogi-zōshi tale, probably written in late-Tenshō or early Keichō period (c. 1580-1600), about a conflict between factions supporting the relative merits of wine and tea.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.

Other 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 e. Muromachi jidai monogatari 室町時代物語

Bibliography

Mikan chūsei shōsetsu kaidai 未刊中世小説解題, pp. 117-22; Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 294; Muromachi jidai monogatari taisei 室町時代物語大成, vol. 7, pp. 219-31 and Mikan chūsei shōsetsu 未刊中世小説 (Koten bunko 古典文庫, vol. 12) (both reprints); Kinsei bungaku shiryō ruijū, kana-zōshi hen 近世文学資料類従・仮名草子編, vol. 26 (facs. ed.).