Variant title: Roppyakuban utaawase 六百番歌合. Author/compiler: Unknown. Contest judge: Fujiwara no Toshinari (Shunzei) 藤原俊成. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [late-Kan'ei period, c. 1640-44] . No colophon. Description: 8 kan, 4 satsu. Folios unnumbered. 26.9 x 17.9 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 22 x 16 cm. No borders. No printed hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text without furigana. 12 lines to page, 26 characters to line. Black covers, old but not original, with an embossed design. No title slips or gedai. Title from naidai. In a chitsu case. Edition: The third, and (in Kawase's opinion) the latest in date, of three movable type editions printed towards the end of the Kan'ei period. Type 1 is undated and has 11 lines to the page; Type 2 is dated Kan'ei 17 (1640) and, like the present edition, has 12 lines to the page. Interval between each printing was probably short. Small-sized type, common to all three, was much used in movable type editions of poetical works, gunki monogatari, etc. The first seihan edition of this work, published in Jōō 1 (1652) by Murakami Heirakuji 村上平樂寺, was based on the above kokatsuji-ban 古活字版. Contents: A collection of 600 waka poems composed by Fujiwara no Yoshitsune 藤原良經 and others at a poetry contest utaawase 歌合 held at Yoshitsune's residence in 1193, with Fujiwara no Toshinari as judge. His appraisals of the poems are included. The contestant Kenshō 顯昭 later challenged some of these judgements in a work entitled Roppyakuban chinjō 六百番陳狀. 34 of the poems from this utaawase are incorporated in the anthology Shin kokin wakashū 新古今和歌集.
Sadaishō-ke roppyakuban utaawase 左大將家六百番歌合
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or.64.b.32
- Dates of Creation
- [1640-1645]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 4 volumes Condition: Fair to good. Minor worm damage, mostly repaired. Several maki water-stained. 8 damaged folios at end of maki 7 have been repaired and text partially restored in manuscript. Impression: Type shows distinct signs of wear. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Koyama bunko 小山文庫, and two red seals obliterated with sumi, on first page (contents list) of maki 1 and 4. One of these can be read, nevertheless, as Jōtō Ōta 城東太田.
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Acquisition Information
Acquired from Kōbunsō, 15 March 1974.
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 7.Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 b.Waka 和歌
Bibliography
Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 6, p. 312; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 492, 554-5, 902, pl. 460; Ryūmon bunko zenpon shomoku 竜門文庫善本書目, p. 160; Kōbunsō kohanpon mokuroku 弘文荘古版本目録, p. 246.