Aki no nezame 秋寢覺 [秋寝覚]

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 59 16055.c.52
  • Dates of Creation
      1669
  • Language of Material
      Japanese
  • Physical Description
      3 volumes Condition: Fair. A clean copy, but marred by worming, especially in maki 下. Impression: Shozuri or near. Seals of ownership: Large square red seal, Urushiyama bunko 漆山文庫, and black stamp in an ornamental frame, Harada 原田, on mikaeshi of each maki. Large oblong red seal, Aiwai bunko 靄隈文庫, and smaller square red seal, Yokochi-shi shintei tosho 横地氏審定圖書 (both seals of Yokochi Ishitarō 横地石太郎), on first page of each maki.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Shōan 松菴. Imprint: N.p., n.d. No kanki at end of book. Preface, dated Kanbun 9 (1669), ends with the following line: 寛文己酉秋九月 松菴記印. Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu, in a chitsu case. (上) ff. [3] (序 + 目録), 29; (中) ff. 8; (下) ff. 24. 26.4 x 16.9 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 19.8 x 15.1 cm. (average). Single-line borders all round, but no vertical rule or fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with furigana, dakuten and kutōten. 9 lines to page, 16-18 characters to line. Original mid-blue covers, embossed with a faint design. Original title slips on left (part only on maki 上), with printed gedai: 秋寢覺上 (中, 下). Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: [no title] , Jō (chū, ge) 上 (中, 下) + folio no. Edition: The only known edition of this work. Contents: A miscellany of useful information on natural phenomena and categories of human beings.

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Shibunkaku, 26 Feb. 1969.

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 1. Encyclopedias and works of general scope 事典・一般書.