Shinsen ruijū ōrai 新撰類聚往來

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.64.b.3
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1648
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Good, but with some unrepaired worm damage. Cropped at upper edge. Impression: Atozuri, from worn blocks. Seals of ownership: None. Manuscript notes: A one-page abbreviated list of contents has been inserted at head of maki 上, in an early Edo hand.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Tanpō 丹峰, Buddhist monk (dates and biography unknown). Imprint: Kyōto, Tsurugaya Kyubē, Keian 1, 1648. Kanki on fol. 35b of maki 下 reads: 慶安元年五月吉日 ／ 京寺町蛸藥師前敦賀屋久兵衛開板. Description: 3 kan, formerly in 3 satsu, bound in 1 vol. (western style). (上) ff. [1] , 42; (中) ff. 43; (下) ff. 35. Fol. 11 of maki 上 has been wrongly bound in before fol. 1 of that maki. 25.8 x 19 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 22 x 17.5 cm. No borders. No vertical rules. Kanbun text with printed kunten in katakana and some kaeriten. 7 lines to page, 12-15 characters to line. Soiled off-white front cover only, renewed c. late Edo period, within a modern western style half-leather binding. Handwritten gedai on title slip of same period: 新撰類聚往來上中下. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Ruijū jō 類聚上 (chū 中, ge 下) + folio no. Edition: The only recorded Edo period edition. Compiler's name, in the form 丹峰和尚撰焉, precedes kanki on fol. 35b of maki 下. Contents: A guide to letter writing, with selected words and phrases recommended for use, compiled late-15th to early 16th century.

Access Information

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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 6. Literature - prose 国文-散文 c. Letter writing 消息文

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 488; reprinted in Nihon kyōkasho taikei, ōrai hen 日本教科書大系・往来編, vol. 4, pp. 360-474.