Variant title: Fūshi kaden 風姿花傳 [風姿花伝]. Author/compiler: Zeami Motokiyo 世阿彌元清 (attribution), 1363-1443. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Genna / Kan'ei period, c. 1620-40] . No colophon. Description: 6 kan (of 8), rebound in 1 vol. (western style). Incomplete copy, lacking maki 4 and 6. Folios numbered only on inner edge, adjacent to spine; not on fore-edge. (1) ff. 20; (2) ff. 18; (3) ff. 30; (5) ff. 33; (7) ff. 35; (8) ff. 17. 27.8 x 20.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type, with illustrations and surrounding text printed from blocks. Printing frame 23.2 x 17.9 cm. No borders. No printed hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text without furigana. 12 lines to page, 19-20 characters to line. Original black front and back covers, within half-leather binding in western style. Manuscript title slip on left added later in a late-Edo hand. Gedai: Nō narabini utai no kojitsuki 能并謡之故實記. No naidai. Edition: Five movable type editions of this work, all undated, are recorded in Kokatsujiban no kenkyū. The present copy differs from all of them, but most closely resembles sub-group 3 of Type 2, Dai nishu-bon (ha) 第二種本 (ハ), copy owned by Tōyō Bunko. The illustrations were newly engraved for editions in Type 2. Contents: A treatise on the ''secret'' principles and practice of nō drama. Compilation attributed to Zeami, based on oral traditions handed down by his father Kan'ami 觀阿彌.
[Kadensho] [花傳書]
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- Dates of Creation[1620-1640]
- Language of MaterialJapanese
- Physical Description1 volume Condition: Few brown stains in maki 3, otherwise very good. Impression: Thick, fuzzy strokes lacking in clarity. Evidence of worn type. Illustrations: Sumizuri woodcuts of flutes (fue 笛) on ff. 13-16 of maki 3, and of human figures on ff. 17-24 of maki 5. Other woodcut sketches passim. Seals of ownership: None. Manuscript notes: Brief note on blank leaf at end of maki 2: 信州松本開之.
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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).C.Japanese works 和書 8.Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 b.Nō 能
Bibliography
Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 5, pp. 217-8; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 562-5, 909.