Author/compiler: Unknown. Possibly Asai Ryōi 淺井了意, d. 1691. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [c. Kanbun / Enpō period, 1661-81 ?] . No colophon. Description: Each 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a chitsu case. (Satō Fujiō 佐藤ふぢわう) ff. 4; (Engaku shōnin 緣覺上人) ff. 10. 26.9 x 18.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 22.8 x 17 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana and dakuten. 15 lines to page, c. 30 characters to line. Original mid-blue covers, somewhat damaged. Title slip missing, hence no gedai. Title from naidai and bidai of each work. Hashiragaki: (1) Sa 佐, (2) Kaku 覚 + folio no. Edition: Uncertain whether this copy was issued as a separate publication, or formed part of a complete edition of Yamato nijūshi kō (see Contents below). If this is a stray volume from a set of Yamato nijūshi kō, it does not belong to the Karasuma edition (12 lines to page), nor to the Yoshinoya 吉野屋 edition (see 16052.f.14). It seems reasonable to assign the present copy to c. Kanbun 寛文 or Enpō 延宝 period. Contents: Two stories from the kana-zōshi collection Yamato nijūshi kō 大倭二十四孝, authorship attributed to Asai Ryōi. In a complete set, the two brief biographies of Satō Fujiō 佐藤ふぢわう and Engaku Shōnin 緣覺上人 are contained in maki 9 and 10.
Satō fujiō; Engaku shōnin 佐藤ふじわう; 緣覺上人 [佐藤ふじわう; 縁覚上人]
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- Dates of Creation[1661-1681]
- Language of MaterialJapanese
- Physical Description1 volume Condition: Good. A clean copy, with only slight soiling and stains. Impression: Shozuri, or near. Illustrations: A total of 7 single-page sumizuri woodcuts, unsigned but very much in the style of Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣 and almost certainly by his hand. 2 illustrations in the first work and 5 in the second. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Fujii bunko 藤井文庫, on fol. 1a of Satō Fuji-ō.
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Acquired from Isseidō, 15 June 1970.
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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 f. Kana-zōshi 仮名草子