Kōshi tsūki 孔子通紀

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 ORB 30/201
  • Former Reference
    • GB 59 15303.c.15
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1600-1615]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Good, but with some unrepaired worm damage and slight staining on lower margins. Impression: Fairly sharp and clear, showing little evidence of worn type. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, on first page of maki 1, 3, 5, and 7 (i.e. of each former satsu). Manuscript notes: Occasional headnotes in upper margin, and red reading marks in first preface. A manuscript copy (Meiji period) of the batsubun dated Keichō 5 (1600) from the Fushimi 伏見 edition of Jōgan seiyō 貞觀政要 has been bound into this book, following the last folio of maki 8.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Pan Fu 潘府. Imprint: N.p, n.d. [mid- to late-Keichō period, c. 1605-15] No colophon. Description: 8 kan, formerly in 4 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (1) ff. 20 (序, 序, 総解, 凡例, 本文); (2) ff. 26; (3) ff. 14; (4) ff. 25; (5) ff. 4; (6) ff. 47; (7) ff. 47; (8) ff. 9 (本文, 跋). 29.6 x 20.7 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 23.6 x 17.7 cm. Double-line borders all round. 'Flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, without kunten or reading marks. 9 lines to page, 16 characters to line. Original covers lacking. In a western style half-leather binding. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Tsūki 通紀 + maki no. + folio no. Edition: The only movable type edition of this work. Based on a Chinese Ming edition, as attested by reprinted prefaces dated 弘治十四年 (1501) and 弘治癸亥歳 (1503) and by two batsu dated 嘉靖壬戌 (1562) and 嘉靖癸亥 (1563). Contents: An account of the genealogy of Confucius, his sayings and acts during his lifetime, followed by details of his descendants and disciples and of ceremonies connected with him.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Donated to the British Museum 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).A. Chinese works 漢籍 3. Philosophy, including confucianism and taoism 哲学(儒教・道教を含む)

Bibliography

Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 383, 826; Tenri toshokan kisho mokuroku 天理図書館稀書目録, vol. 2, p. 27; Yonezawa zenpon no kenkyū to kaidai 米沢善本の研究と解題, p. 132, pl. 13.