Variant title: Jinshin Edo kagami 壬申江戸鑑. Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Edo] , Shōkai, Genroku 4, 1691. Kanki on last folio verso reads: 元禄二二歳松會開板. (The date, Genroku 4, has been deleted with black ink but can be read with difficulty through the ink.). Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a box. ff. 4-48 (folios numbered 1-3 are missing), 1-46. 117 x 180 mm. (yokohon). Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame varies between 94 and 106 x 150 and 162 mm. Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text. Variable number of lines to page and characters to line. Original black covers with embossed geometric design. Original title slip with printed gedai: Jinshin [i. e. Genroku 5, 1692] Edo kagami 壬申江戸鑑全. Naidai on fol. 4a: Edo kagami 江戸鑑. Hashiragaki: [no running title] , folio no. only. Edition: Editions of this work, with some variations in title, were published at frequent intervals (perhaps annually) between c. Shōhō 正保 and Hōei 宝永 periods (1644-1711). The present copy, with deleted kanki dated Genroku 4 (1691), was presumably intended for use in Genroku 5 (壬申, 1692), the year in which Kaempfer left Japan. Contents: A directory of senior bakufu officials and daimyō 大名 in the city of Edo, giving details of rank, income in koku 石, mon and other insignia, and place of residence in Edo. This work was revised, updated and republished at regular intervals.
Edo kagami 江戸鑑
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- Dates of Creation1691
- Language of MaterialJapanese
- Physical Description1 volume Condition: Very good. Impression: Sharp and clear, near-shozuri. Illustrations: Small sumizuri sketches of badges (mon) along upper edge, and military insignia of daimyō families interspersed in-text on every folio from 5b to 48a and 4a to 25a. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on fol. 4a. Manuscript notes: Entries numbered and some names transliterated in upper margins by Kaempfer. Also manuscript note in another hand on paper slip pasted to front cover: A court Calendar for the city of Iedo. Two further notes on mikaeshi: (1) Speculum Viatorum Japonicè; (2) A Book difficult to be comprehended. Understood to contain some abstruse Doctrines about the Deity. Old shelfmark: Pr: Or. 131.
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Purchased from the estate of Engelbert Kaempfer by Sir Hans Sloane 1723-1725 and incorporated in the British Museum in 1753.
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 8. Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 d. Jōruri 浄瑠璃
Bibliography
Tōhoku daigaku fuzoku toshokan betchibon mokuroku 東北大学附属図書館別置本目録, p. 53.