Author/compiler: Kaibara Ekiken 貝原益軒, named Atsunobu 篤信, philosopher and Confucian scholar, 1630-1714. Imprint: Kyōto, Ryūshiken (=Ogawa Tazaemon 小川多左衞門), Genroku 6, 1693. Mokki on fol. 40b of maki 下 reads: 元禄六季歳在癸酉夾鐘穀日 ／ 京兆書林柳枝軒茨城方道壽梓. Description: 2 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 上) ff. [1] (目録), 36; (maki 下) ff. 2 (目録), 40. 22.3 x 14.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 16.1 x 12.3 cm. Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with some printed furigana, and printed okurigana and kaeriten in kanbun passages. 8 lines to page, 16-18 characters to line. Renewed blue front cover only, with embossed hexagonal pattern. Renewed title slip on left with manuscript gedai: Chikuzen nayose 筑前名寄. Title from gedai, mokurokudai and naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Nayose jō (ge) 名寄上 (下) + folio no. (at lower end of hanshin). Edition: First printed edition. Contents: Brief descriptions of 63 notable places in Chikuzen province, compiled from references in early records and waka poems, and by personal travel and research.
Chikuzen nayose 筑前名寄
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- Dates of Creation1693
- Language of MaterialJapanese
- Physical Description1 volume Condition: Good, apart from minor worm damage in lower margins and along binding edge. Impression: Shozuri or near. Seals of ownership: None, but a blue kashihon'ya stamp of Mansaidō 萬濟堂 in Nagasaki, Yorozu kashihon-dokoro 萬貸本所, is impressed on mikaeshi. Manuscript notes: Shubiki and other marks in red, and names of gun 郡 repeated in red in upper margins as a means of indexing.
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Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.
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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 10. Geography and topography 地理・地誌 a. Regional geography and topography 地方地誌
Bibliography
Kazō Nihon chishi mokuroku 家蔵日本地誌目録, vol. 1, p. 760; text reprinted in Ekiken zenshū 益軒全集, vol. 4.