Nihongi jindaishō 日本紀神代抄 [ 日本紀神代抄 ]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16046.b.8
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1640
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Excellent. Free from worm damage and stains. Impression: An early impression, sharp and clear. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal of Sir Ernest Satow (his smaller seal), 英國薩道藏書, on first page of introductory matter (起) and of maki 5.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Nihon shoki jindaishō 日本書紀神代抄 [日本書紀神代抄 ]. Variant title: Nihon shoki jindai no maki shō 日本書紀神代巻抄 [日本書紀神代巻抄]. Author/compiler: Kiyohara Nobukata 清原宣賢, Confucian and literary scholar, also known as Funabashi Nobukata 船橋宣賢, 1475-1550. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [late-Kan'ei-Keian period, c. 1640-50] (see notes under Edition below). Kanki on fol. 10b of maki 11 reads: 寛永十七庚辰歳九月下澣日. Description: 11 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (1) ff. 17 (introductory 起); (2) ff. 14 (maki 1); (3) ff. 13 (maki 2); (4) ff. 16 (maki 3); (5) ff. 41 (maki 4); (6) ff. 8 (maki 5); (7) ff. 17 (maki 6); (8) ff. 12 (maki 7); (9) ff. 8 (maki 8); (10) ff. 5 (下巻之沙汰); (11) ff. 50 (maki 9); (12) ff. 23 (maki 10); (13) ff. 10 (maki 11). 27.1 x 18.7 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 22.2 x 16.7 cm. Double-line borders. Fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text with printed okurigana and kaeriten, alternating with katakana-majiri text with printed kunten and kutōten. 12 lines to page, 18-28 characters to line. Renewed light blue front cover (late-Edo period) of satsu 1 only, with manuscript gedai: 日本紀神代抄 自起之一至四. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Title at end of maki 11, fol. 6a: Nihon shoki jindaishō 日本書紀神代抄. Hashiragaki: Jindaishō 神代抄 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: First edition was published in Kan'ei 17 (1640) with the above imprint. This copy appears to be a reprint (fukkoku 覆刻), from newly cut blocks, of the original Kan'ei 17 edition, probably printed c. 1640-50. A second edition was published in Kanbun 9, 1669. Contents: Commentary on the Jindai no maki 神代巻, the first two chapters of Nihon shoki 日本書紀. A batsubun associating the compilation of this work with Kiyohara Nobukata, printed on fol. 10 of maki 11, is dated Kyōroku 4 享禄辛卯, 1531. Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録, however, gives the date of compilation as Tenbun 5 天文五年, 1536.

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Acquisition Information

Donated to the British Museum by (Sirt) 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). C. Japanese works 和書 9. History and biography 歴史・伝記 a. Early records 古代史