Saikoku sanjūsanban junreiuta 西國三十三番順禮哥 [西国三十三番順礼歌]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.75.g.7
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1673-1688]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Very good. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Illustrations: 10 small sumizuri woodcuts depicting the goddesss Kannon, in the upper part of ff. 2-3 and 8- [9]. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on last folio verso. Manuscript notes: Note in Kaempfer's hand on fol. 2a. Note on inner back cover: A Good Book of a Chinese Priestess / Examined by Chetqua Decr. 17. 1770.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Sanjūsanban junreiuta 三十三番順禮哥 [三十三番順礼歌]. Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Ōsaka ?] , Nakajimaya, n.d. [c. Enpō-Jōkyō period, 1673-1688]. No kanki. Publisher's name from title slip in the form: 中嶋屋板. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a slip-case. ff. [3] , 8, [2]. 217 x 155 mm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 192 x 147 mm. (average). Single-line borders. Fishtail design on hanshin of Kannon-gyō only. Hiragana-majiri text, with dakuten, kutōten and some furigana. 12 lines to page, c. 20 characters to line (for Kannon-gyō 觀音經). Original black covers embossed with a lattice and peony design. Original title slip on left with printed gedai: 西 ／ 國 (角書) 三十三番順礼哥. Title from gedai. Naidai on mikaeshi: 西國 ／ 大坂 (角書) 三十三番. Hashiragaki (on ff. 1- [10] ): くわんおん + folio no. Edition: Apparently the only edition published. Contents: A pilgrim's guide to the 33 shrines dedicated to Kannon in the Ōsaka region, followed on ff. 1- [10] by the text of Kannon-gyō 觀音經 (Myōhō renge-kyō, 妙法蓮華經, ch. 25).

Access Information

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Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Purchased from the estate of Engelbert Kaempfer by Sir Hans Sloane 1723-1725 and incorporated in the British Museum in 1753.

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 8. Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 d. Jōruri 浄瑠璃

Bibliography

Tōhoku daigaku fuzoku toshokan betchibon mokuroku 東北大学附属図書館別置本目録, p. 53.