Ritsugen hakki 律原發揮 [律原発揮]

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 59 16103.c.16
  • Dates of Creation
      1692
  • Language of Material
      Japanese
  • Physical Description
      1 volume Condition: Excellent. Impression: Slightly atozuri, but still sharp and clear. Illustrations: Sumizuri diagrams in-text illustrating scales and methods of calculating measurement. Seals of ownership: Two red seals, one circular, one inkoku incorporating a white dragon on a red ground, on first page of preface.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Nakane Genkei 中根元珪, also known as Nakane Akira 中根璋, 1662-1733. Imprint: Rakuyō [Kyōto] , Umemura Yahaku (=Yaemon 彌右衞門), Genroku 5, 1692. Kanki on fol. 46a reads: 元禄五年歳次壬申冬十月十七日 ／ 雒陽五條橋陌書林梅村彌白藏. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. ff. 2 (序), 2 (目録), 46. 26.4 x 18.6 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 18.4 x 14.6 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, with printed okurigana and kaeriten. 9 lines to page, 18 characters to line. Original dull yellow front cover only, with original printed title slip. Gedai: 律原發揮. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: 律 (度, 量, 衡) + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: The only recorded pre-modern edition. Contents: A treatise on the mathematics of music, introducing and discussing the Chinese 12-tone scale, followed by additional material on measurement in general, particularly land measurement and surveying.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from I. Summers, bookseller, 5 August 1861.

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 14. Physical sciences 自然科学 a. Mathematics 数学

Bibliography

Kokusho kaidai 国書解題, p. 2014; text reprinted in Nihon keizai taiten 日本経済大典, vol. 4.