Kamakura monogatari 鎌倉物語

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

  • Reference
    • GB 59 16107.g.48
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1688-1704]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Good, apart from ink smears in maki 2 and minimal worm damage in maki 1, repaired by urauchi. Impression: Slightly atozuri, but not to a marked degree. Illustrations: A total of 25 double-page (mihiraki) sumizuri woodcuts, distributed as follows: (maki 1) 7; (2) 5; (3) 6; (4) 3; (5) 4. Artist not named, but possibly the work of Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Nakagawa Kiun 中川喜雲, physician and haikai poet. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [c. Genroku period, 1688-1704 ?] . No colophon. See under Edition below. Description: 5 kan, bound in 1 satsu, in a chitsu case. (Maki 1) ff. [1] (序), [1] (目録), 25; (maki 2) ff. [1] , 17; (3) ff. [1] , 19; (4) ff. [1] , 10; (5) ff. [1] , 18, [1] . 16.1 x 11.4 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 13.5 x 9.4 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana and dakuten. 12 lines to page, c. 30 characters to line. Renewed mid-blue covers, lacking title slip. No gedai. Title from mokurokudai and naidai at head of text in each maki. Hashiragaki: Kama カマ + maki no. + olio no. Edition: An undated edition of reduced size, with text based on the large-format first edition of Manji 2 (1659). A reprint of this large-format edition was published in Genroku 13 (1700), and two dated editions of reduced size were issued in Kyōhō 20 (1735) and Hōreki 2 (1752). Contents: Topographical guide to Kamakura and environs: its historical associations, temples and other places of interest. Contains hokku and kyōka poems composed by the author. Unsigned preface on first folio and batsu at end.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Isseidō, 15 June 1970.

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 10. Geography and topography 地理・地誌 a. Regional geography and topography 地方地誌

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 2, p. 6; Kazō Nihon chishi mokuroku 家蔵日本地誌目録, vol. 1, p. 361-3; Kohan chishi kaidai 古版地誌解題, pp. 157-61; Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , p. 44 (describing illustrations in full).