Fuku zassho ふくざっしょ

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.65.c.62
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1687
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Fair to good. Book rebacked. No worm damage. Cropped at head. Impression: Atozuri from badly worn blocks. Illustrations: Five small sumizuri vignettes, 5 x 2.4 cm., at head of each page, illustrating the text below. Frontispiece in Moronobu style on ff. 1b-2a. Attribution to Moronobu on modern title slip of chitsu case may be discounted. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: Edo, Urokogataya Magobē, Jōkyō 4, 1687. Kanki on fol. 15b reads: 貞享四年 ／ 卯ノ正月吉日 ／ 板元 江戸鱗形屋孫兵衞. Publisher's name has clearly been added to the 1687 block at a later date. Earliest recorded work published by Urokogataya Magobē is in Kyōhō period (1716-36). Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, ff. [1, preface] , 15. 18.5 x 13.4 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 17 x 12.5 cm. (approx.). Single-line borders. Text and illustrations spaced by vertical and horizontal rules. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. Lines of variable length and width. Dark blue covers, old but not original. No title slip or gedai. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Fuku ふく + folio no. In a chitsu case. Edition: This edition of Jōkyō 4 (1687) is the only one recorded. Contents: A popular work on fortune-telling and omens of good fortune.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Kōbunsō, 14 April 1970.

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 18. Amateur arts 諸芸 c. Divination and astrology 占卜・占星・暦法