Author/compiler: Asayama Irin'an 朝山意林庵, also known as Soshin 素心, Confucian scholar of Kyōto, 1589-1664. Imprint: N.p., Kan'ei 15, 1638. Kanki on fol. 34a reads: 寛永拾五戊寅十月吉旦開之. Description: 2 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (上) ff. 34; (下) ff. 34. 26.3 x 17.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 21.4 x 16.1 cm. No borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 11 lines to page, 19-22 characters to line. Original vermilion front cover of satsu 上 and back cover of satsu 下, faintly embossed with a pattern, now badly rubbed. Original printed title slip, with original gedai over-written in black ink. Gedai reads: 清水物語 上. Naidai and gedai identical. Hashiragaki: Kiyomizu jō (ge) 清水上 (下) + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: First recorded edition of this work, followed by further seihan editions in Shōhō 2 (1645) and Tenna 2 (1682). Publisher's name not given. Contents: A series of debates on the respective merits of Confucianism and Buddhism, in which Confucianism comes off best. Generally classed as a kana-zōshi work, but wholly didactic in character. Preface by the author on fol. 1.
Kiyomizu monogatari 清水物語
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- Dates of Creation1638
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- Physical Description1 volume Condition: A few stains (notably ff. 16-20 of maki 上), otherwise good. Negligible worm damage towards end. Impression: For the most part sharp and clear, but blocks show some signs of wear. Seals of ownership: Square red seal, Haku-shi tosho 白氏圖書, over-written (like the gedai) with black ink, impressed on title slip on front cover. Small circular black seal, Hōyō 豊葉 (early Edo period ?) on first page of each maki.
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Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.
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Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993).C. Japanese works 和書 5. Literature - fiction 国文-小説 f. Kana-zōshi 仮名草子
Bibliography
Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 2, p. 221; Edo bungaku zuroku 江戸文学図録, p. 5, pl. 11-12; Kinsei bungaku mikanbon sōsho, kana-zōshi hen 近世文学未刊本叢書• 仮名草子編, p. 9.