Nihon shoki jindai no maki 日本書紀神代巻

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16060.a.13
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1695
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Very good, except for minimal worm damage in maki 下. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Seals of ownership: Elongated oval red seal, Kannaraikai 神習會, on first page of maki 上.

Scope and Content

Alternative reading of title: Yamato-bumi: kamiyo no maki. Variant title: Jindai no maki 神代巻. Author/compiler: Corporate compilation. Text edited by Matsushita Kenrin 松下見林. Imprint: N.p., n.d. (closing note by Matsushita Kenrin dated Genroku 8 元禄八年, 1695). Description: 2 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (上) ff. 41; (下) ff. 41. 252 x 180 mm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 205 x 162 mm. (average). Single-line borders. Single fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, with printed kundoku, kunten and kutōten. 6 lines to page (large characters), 12 lines (smaller characters, 14 characters to line. Brown and white banded front cover of satsu 上 only, contemporary with date of printing (late-18th century ?), with printed title slip bearing gedai: Kōsei hyōetsu (tsunogaki) Jindai no maki 校正評閲 (角書) 神代巻. Title from naidai, printed with kundoku: 日本書紀 (ヤマトフミ) ･･･ 神代上 (カミヨノカンノマキ). Hashiragaki: 日本書紀 神代巻 上 (下) + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: Sixth blockprinted edition of Jindai no maki alone, following seihan editions dated Kanbun 7 (1667), Kanbun 9 (1669), Kanbun 12 (1672), Enpō 4 (1676) and Enpō 7 (1679). Although the present copy was printed from the original blocks of Genroku 8 (1695), publisher's advertisements of Izumoji Shōhakudō 出雲寺松栢堂 at end of both maki indicate a printing not earlier than mid- to late-18th century. Contents: Plain text of Nihon shoki, Jindai no maki (maki 上 and 下), without commentary, but with batsu by Kiyohara Kunikata.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by purchase, 12 Oct. 1876.

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 9. History and biography 歴史・伝記 a. Early records 古代史

Bibliography

Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録, vol. 6, pp. 389-90.