Sugatae hyakunin isshu 姿繪百人一首 [姿絵百人一首]

Variant title: Fūryū sugatae hyakunin isshu 風流姿繪百人一首 [風流姿絵百人一首]. Author/compiler: Attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣, 1618-94. Not clear whether this is a posthumous work of Moronobu himself, who died in the year before its publication, or the work of his son Morofusa 師房. The latter is more probable. Imprint: Edo, Kinoshita Jin'emon, Genroku 8, 1695. Kanki on unnumbered folio following fol. 50b reads: 元禄八暦乙亥四月吉辰 ／ 大傳馬貳丁目 ／ 木下甚右衛門板. Description: 1 kan, formerly in 3 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Satsu 1) ff. [1] (preface), 1-19; (satsu 2) ff. 20-32; (satsu 3) ff. 33-50, [1] (batsu). 262 x 181 mm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 193-200 x 150 mm. Single-line borders. Horizontal rules dividing text above from illustrations below. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana in preface, kango and some headings. One poem from Hyakunin isshu 百人一首 in upper third of each page, with illustrations in lower two-thirds. Lines (text) of variable length. Original blue front cover only, somewhat damaged, with original printed title slip (lower part missing) bearing gedai: Fūryū 風流 (tsunogaki 角書 above) sugatae hyakunin isshu 姿繪百人一首. Title from naidai at head of preface. Hashiragaki: Sugatae 姿絵 + folio no. Book rebound in half-leather, western style. Edition: The only recorded woodblock edition of this work. Contents: The 100 waka poems of the Hyakunin isshu, printed in gyōsho script, followed by brief notes on the poets and poems. Illustrations below.

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Acquired from William Anderson, 21 March 1894.

Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). C. Japanese works 和書 7. Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 b. Waka 和歌

Ukiyoe jiten 浮世絵事典, vol. 2, p. 105; Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , p. 110; Nihon fūzoku zue 日本風俗図絵, vol. 2 (facsim. reprint of whole book).