Wakan nenpyōroku 倭漢年表錄

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 59 Or.75.f.1
  • Dates of Creation
      1687
  • Language of Material
      Japanese
  • Physical Description
      1 volume Condition: Good, except for a few stains and minimal worm damage at inner (binding) edge. Impression: Shozuri or near. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on tobira and on last page of book. Manuscript notes: Dates in the western calendar have been added in red and black ink by Kaempfer in the upper margins. A few further notes sporadically in Kaempfer's hand. Note in black ink on mikaeshi reads: Chronologie Imperatorum Japonensium. / Examined by Chetqua / Decr. 17, 1770. / Pr: Or: 145. / Cost in Japan 1 oz. silver.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Wakan kōtō hennen gōunzu 倭漢皇統編年合運圖 [倭漢皇統編年合運図]. Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Umemura Yaemon, Jōkyō 4, 1687. Mokki on fol. 3b of batsu reads: 貞享四丁卯歳三月日 ／ 寺町五條梅村彌右衛門. Tobira on folio preceding preface reads (from line 3) : 合運指掌 ／ 倭漢年表錄 ／ 帝畿宣風坊 書林 玉池堂 藏版. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a box. ff. [1] (tobira), 5 (preface + hanrei), 181, 3 (batsu). 105 x 80 mm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 89 x 64 mm. (average). Single-line borders, with horizontal and vertical rules dividing up each page. Single fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, with printed okurigana and kaeriten. 10 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line. Original light blue covers, with original printed title slip and additional square slip with printed date and details of contents. Gedai: 倭漢年表錄. Title from gedai and tobira, Naidai: Wakan kōtō hennen gōunzu 倭漢皇統編年合運圖. Hashiragaki: Hennenshi 編年史 + folio no. Edition: The earliest edition of this work. Followed by three other editions in Genroku 10 (1697), Kanpō 2 (1742) and Meiwa 8 (1771). Contents: Comparative chronological table of Japan and China from mythical times up to Genroku 2 (1689), indicating nengō (年号, year periods), cyclical dates, events in Japan in the upper part of each page, and events in China in the lower. (There are brief entries for the years Genroku 1-2 (1688-89), even though the book was published in Jōkyō 4 (1687).).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

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.