Nihon shoki jindai kōjutsushō 日本書紀神代講述抄 [日本書紀神代講述抄]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16046.b.9
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1672
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Excellent. No worm damage or stains. Impression: Atozuri, from blocks showing considerable wear. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal of Sir Ernest Satow (his smaller seal), 英國薩道藏書, on first page of preface and of maki 4.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Jindai no maki kōjutsushō 神代巻講述鈔 [神代巻講述抄]. Author/compiler: Deguchi Nobuyoshi 出口延佳, also known as Watarai Nobuyoshi 度會延佳, 1615-90. Text edited by the Shinto scholar Yamamoto Hirotari 山本廣足. Imprint: N.p., n.d. (preface dated Kanbun 12, 1672). Last two lines of preface by Matsushita Kenrin read: 寛文十二年冬十二月二十八日 ／ 洛陽松下見林序. Description: 5 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (1) ff. [1] (序), 1, 19; (2) ff. 27; (3) ff. 46; (4) ff. 42; (5) ff. 26. 26.2 x 18.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 23 x 17.3 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun (main text) with kunten and kaeriten, alternating with katakana-majiri text (commentary) with kunten and kutōten. 7 lines to page (本文 - large characters), 14 lines (commentary-smaller characters); 18 characters to line (large characters), 28-34 to line (smaller characters). Original fawn front cover of satsu 1 only, with original printed title slip bearing gedai: Jindaikan kōjutsushō 神代巻講述鈔. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: 日本書紀神代巻講述鈔 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: Apparently the only pre-modern edition, published in or soon after the date of Matsushita Kenrin's preface, Kanbun 12, 1672. Contents: Text of the first two chapters of Nihon shoki 日本書紀, Jindai no maki 神代巻, with textual emendations and katakana-majiri commentary by Deguchi Nobuyoshi. Edited from the latter's verbal exposition by Yamamoto Hirotari. Preface written by Matsushita Kenrin.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Donated by (Sir) Ernest M. Satow 13 June 1885.

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

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 492.