Genji monogatari shokan toshidate 源氏物語諸巻年立

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 59 16055.c.5
  • Dates of Creation
      1673
  • Language of Material
      Japanese
  • Physical Description
      1 volume Condition: Very good. A clean copy, free from worm damage. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal of Sir Ernest Satow (his smaller seal), 英國薩道藏書, on first page of maki 上 and 下.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Genji monogatari toshidate 源氏物語年立. Author/compiler: Ichijō Kaneyoshi (also read Kanera) 一條兼良, 1402-1481. Imprint: N.p., n.d. Enpō 1, 1673 ? . No colophon. Description: 2 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (上) ff. 1-31; (下) ff. 32-65. 270 x 184 mm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 235 x 186 mm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text with printed dakuten and kutōten, alternating with kanbun text supplied with kunten and kaeriten. Original mid-blue front cover of maki 上 only, with original printed title slip, centrally placed. Gedai: Genji monogatari toshidate 源氏物語年立. Hashiragaki: Toshi 年 + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: Undated, but this is to be expected as toshidate 年立 forms part of the introductory material to Kogetsushō 湖月抄 . Presumably of the Enpō 1 (1673) edition. Contents: A chronological arrangement of principal events in Genji monogatari 源氏物語, based on dates in the lives of Hikaru Genji 光源氏 and Kaoru 薫. Compiled by Ichijō Kaneyoshi in 1453.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Donated to the British Museum by (Sir) Ernest M. Satow 13 June 1885.

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 5. Literature - fiction 国文-小説 a. Early monogatari 古物語

Bibliography

Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録, vol. 3, p. 128; Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 2, p. 440.