Shokumotsu wage taisei 食物和解大成

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16027.d.22
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1703
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Good. Impression: Atozuri from badly worn blocks. Illustrations: Simple sumizuri figure sketches on ff. 8-28 of maki 上. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Zōho nichiyō shokushō taizen 増補日用食性大全. Variant title: Nichiyō shokushō wage taizen 日用食性和解大全. Author/compiler: Baba Yūkan 馬場幽閑, writer on nutrition, Genroku period. Imprint: N.p., Genroku 16, 1703. Original kanki on fol. 26b of maki 下 reads: 元禄十六年癸未正月吉日. Later okuzuke (early 19th century ?) on final endpaper reads (in part) : 大坂書肆 河内屋喜兵衛 ／ 河内屋和助 梓. Description: 3 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 上) ff. 3, 52; (maki 中) ff. 5, 57; (maki 下) ff. 4, 26. 15.6 x 10.9 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 14.4 x 9.2 cm. Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 9 lines to page, c. 22 characters to line. Original black front cover only, with printed title slip. Gedai: Zōho (tsunogaki) nichiyō shokushō taizen 増補 (角書) 日用食性大全. Title from naidai at head of maki 上. Hashiragaki: Nichiyō jō 日用上 (Shokushō chū, ge 食性中, 下) + folio no. Edition: Second edition (Genroku 16, 1703) of a work first published in Genroku 11 元禄十一年 (1698) under the title Shokumotsu wage taisei. Later editions were published in Kansei 2 (1790) and Bunsei 12 (1829). Contents: A compendium of useful information on daily food, health and nutrition.

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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 14. Physical sciences 自然科学 b. Botany, including materia medica 本草学