Variant title: Gakō inshō bengyokushuū 畫工印章辨玉集 [画工印章弁玉集 ]. Variant title: Chaki bengyokushū 茶器辨玉集 [茶器弁玉集]. Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: N.p., Kanbun 12, 1672. Kanki on last folio verso of second work reads: 寛文拾貳壬子年初春吉旦. Publisher not named. Description: 2 kan + 3 kan, formerly in 5 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 1) ff. 32; (2) ff. 16; (3) ff. [1] (目録), 22; (4) ff. 43; (5) ff. 27. 25.1 x 18 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 20.6 x 16.8 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text with printed kundoku and kunten in first work (Gakō inshō bengyokushū); katakana-majiri text with printed furigana in second work (Chaki bengyokushū). 9 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line, text interspersed with illustrative matter. Dull reddish-brown front cover (renewed) of maki 1 of first work only. Title slip on left with manuscript gedai: 畫工印章辨玉集上. Titles from naidai of each work. Hashiragaki: (1) Inshō benchishū 印章辨知集 + maki no. + folio no; (2) Chaki benchishū 茶器辨知集 + maki no. + folio no. In a modern western style half-leather binding. Edition: The only pre-modern edition of these works. Early impressions of this edition contain a kanki giving the publisher's name as Uemura Jirōemon 上村次郎右衞門 of Kyōto, missing from the present copy. Contents: Two separate works, published together. The first, Gakō inshō bengyokushū 畫工印章辨玉集 in 2 kan, gives brief information on Japanese artists, calligraphers and sculptors, with their seals and signatures. The second, Chaki bengyokushū 茶器辨玉集 in 3 kan, deals with vessels used in the tea ceremony, and their makers.
Bengyokushū 辨玉集 [弁玉集]
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- Reference
- GB 59 16079.a.7
- Dates of Creation
- 1672
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Good, with only minimal worm damage. Impression: Atozuri, with worn blocks probably replaced by hokoku in places. Illustrations: Sumizuri reproductions of artists' seals and signatures in the first work; sumizuri line sketches of tea vessels in the second. Seals of ownership: None. Manuscript notes: Date (1820) and signature on endpaper facing kanki: 文政三年辰末夏 ／ 中山喜助主.
Scope and Content
Access Information
Not Public Record(s)
Unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.
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 17. Fine arts 芸術 a. General 一般
Bibliography
Texts reprinted in Chadō zenshū 茶道全集, vol. 8 and Nihon garon taikan 日本画論大観, 中巻.