Karin ryōzaishū 歌林良材集

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 59 16100.c.38
  • Dates of Creation
      [1643]
  • Language of Material
      Japanese
  • Physical Description
      2 volumes Condition: Good, except for a few stains and worm holes in maki 上. Impression: Atozuri, from fairly well-worn blocks. Seals of ownership: Small circular red seal, Kurasawa 倉澤, on first page of both maki. Also a square red seal (unidentified) on first page of maki 下.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Ichijō Kaneyoshi (=Kanera) 一條兼良, 1402-81. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Kan'ei 20, 1643 ?] . No colophon. Description: 2 kan, 2 satsu, in a box. (Maki 上) ff. [39]; (maki 下) ff. [47] . Folios unnumbered. 27.3 x 18.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 21.7 x 17 cm. (average). No borders. No printed hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text without furigana. 10 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line. Original vermilion covers, with original printed title slips on left. Gedai (in gyōsho) : 歌林良材集. Title from naidai at head of maki 上 and 下. Mokurokudai: 謌林良材集目錄. Edition: This work was first published in Kan'ei 20 寛永二十年 (1643), with further editions in Keian 4 慶安四年 (1651) and Enpō 7 (1679) -see no. 449 below. The present copy is most likely to be an undated later impression of the Kan'ei 20 (1643) edition, or to belong to an unrecorded edition published between 1643 and c. 1660. Contents: A work on poetical theory and the composition of waka poems, with examples drawn from Man'yōshū 萬葉集, Hachidaishū 八代集, Ise monogatari 伊勢物語 and other classical literary works. Compiled c. Eikyō 永享 period, 1429-41.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Rinrōkaku, 31 Jan. 1967.

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 7. Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 b. Waka 和歌

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 2, p. 35.