Author/compiler: Unknown. Illustrator: Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣, 1618-1694. Illustrator: Unknown. Imprint: [Edo] , Shōkai, n.d. [Enpō 延宝 early-Genroku 元禄 period, c. 1673-1690 ?] . Kanki following kango on fol. 28b of maki 下 reads: 繪師 ／ 菱川吉兵衛 ／ 三月吉日 ／ 松會開板. Date deleted from block, leaving only the above. Publisher's name 松會 is a later addition to the block (入木). Description: 2 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 上) ff. [1] (tobira-e), 1-7, 8 / 9, 10-23; (maki 下) ff. [1] (tobira-e), 1-19, [1] (additional tobira-e), 20-28. 272 x 186 mm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 233 x 174 mm. (average). Single-line borders all round. Double lines separating text from commentary horizontally. Double-line decorative borders surrounding illustrations. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with printed dakuten and kutōten. 14 lines to page (main text), 32 lines to page (commentary). Variable no. of characters to line. Original mid-blue front and back covers of maki 上 only, with printed design of Chinese dragons and diagonal geometric pattern. Original title slip, centrally placed, with printed gedai: 伊勢物語抄 ／ 首書繪入 ／ 讀曲傳記上. Title on tobira: 伊首書勢. Hashiragaki: [no running title] , jō 上 (ge 下) + folio no. only. In a western style cloth binding. Edition: No edition with this title and publisher traced in Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録 or Ise monogatari ni tsukite no kenkyū 伊勢物語に就きての研究 (Ōtsu, Y.). None of the 32 works listed under this title in Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録 corresponds to the present copy. However, there is a close resemblance to the two copies (apparently in 3 kan) described in Ryerson Catalogue, pp. 95-6. The first is dated Enpō 7 延宝七年 (1679) and the second is undated. It is possible that the present copy was originally in 3 satsu with continuous folio numbering in satsu 2-3, since the title slip from satsu 2, labelled chū 中, is pasted on the mikaeshi of satsu 上. Contents: Text of the 125 anecdotes of Ise monogatari 伊勢物語, with commentary in smaller print above.
Ise monogatari shō 伊勢物語抄
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 Or.75.f.14
- Former Reference
- GB 59 Pr. Or. 21
- Dates of Creation
- [1673-1690]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Very good. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Illustrations: Besides the 3 tobira-e, there is a total of 27 sumizuri illustrations in characteristic Moronobu style, 12 in maki 上 and 15 in maki 下. Each occupies the lower two-thirds of the page. Portraits of Ariwara no Narihira and the poetess Ise appear as tobira-e. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on first tobira and above kanki on fol. 28b of maki 下. Manuscript notes: None in Kaempfer's hand. Note on paper slip pasted to mikaeshi reads: This Book is in the old Chinese Character which / Chetqua does not sufficiently understand to explain. / But it probably is an Account of the different Dresses of the Empire in different Times. / Decr. 17. 1770. Old shelfmark, Pr: Or: 21, on title slip.
Scope and Content
Access Information
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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.