Variant title: Shinkan kakurin gyokuro 新刋鶴林玉露 [新刊鶴林玉露]. Author/compiler: Luo Dajing 羅大經. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keichō / Genna period, c. 1605-20, not later than 1622] . No colophon. Description: 18 kan (6 + 6 + 6), formerly in 3 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. Each group of 6 kan is numbered from 1 to 6 in (a) 目録, (b) maki heading (巻頭題), and (c) on hanshin of each maki; there is no continuous numbering of maki 1-18. Each former satsu, comprising 6 kan, is headed by a 6-folio table of contents (目録). 26.1 x 17.6 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 20.8 x 15.8 cm. (average). Double-line borders all round. Vertical rules between columns. 'Flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, without printed kunten or reading marks. 9 lines to page, 19 characters to line. Original vermilion (tan) front cover of satsu 1 only, with embossed geometrical design. No title slip or gedai. Naidai, at head of each mokuroku 目録 and each maki: Shinkan kakurin gyokuro 新刋鶴林玉露. Hashiragaki: Kakurin 鶴林 + maki no. + folio no. Between surviving front cover and its mikaeshi, one page from an old book (a katakana-majiri movable type edition, possibly of selections from Lunyu chao 論語抄, 15 lines to page) has been used to reinforce the cover. Edition: The only recorded movable type edition. Copy in Tōyō Bunko contains a manuscript shikigo dated Genna 8 (1622), thus establishing the date of this edition as pre-1622. Contents: Text of Helin yulu 鶴林玉露, a Chinese zuihitsu work combining critical comments on poetry (詩話), anecdotes (小説) and the sayings of literary figures. Compiled in mid-13th century.
Kakurin gyokuro 鶴林玉露
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- Dates of Creation[1605-1620]
- Language of MaterialJapanese
- Physical Description1 volume Condition: Excellent. Entirely free from stains and worm damage. Impression: Smudged in places, indicating either worn type or uneven inking (or both). Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Sōyō sanbō zōsho 掃葉山房藏書 (seal of Tōjō Kindai 東條琴臺) on first page of maki 1 of satsu 1, 2 and 3. Manuscript notes: Shubiki and kutōten in red, and a few kunten and corrected ji in black, all added c. Kan'ei period.
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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). A. Chinese works 漢籍 7. Chinese literature 中国文学
Bibliography
Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 362, 388, 831, pl. 219; Jingū bunko kanseki zenpon kaidai 神宮文庫漢籍善本解題, pp. 45, 128-30; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 1, p. 79; Zushoryō tenseki kaidai, kanseki hen 図書寮典籍解題・漢籍篇, p. 114.