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  • 1
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Zōho Edo-zu 増補江戸圖 [増補江戸図]
    1681
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.20
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 sheet Condition: Good. Recently re-backed with linen. Impression:Atozuri, from worn blocks. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on reverse of map. Manuscript notes: None on face of map. Note (in Kaempfer's hand ?) on title slip: Iaponici Imp. Urbs in [?] . Note on paper slip pasted to front cover: Plan of the city of Iedo in Japan
    Language:Japanese
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  • 2
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Edo o-ōezu 江戸御大繪圖 [江戸御大絵図]
    1689
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.18
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 sheet Condition: Good. Recently re-backed with linen. Impression: Blocks show little sign of wear. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on reverse of map. Manuscript notes: Note on paper slip pasted to front cover: Plan of the city of Iedo in Japan. Old shelfmark: Pr: Or: 92
    Language:Japanese
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  • 3
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Nihonkoku ōezu 日本國大繪圖 [日本国大絵図]
    [1684-1688]
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.13(2)
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 sheet Condition: Good. Impression: Sharp and clear, shozuri or near. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on reverse of map. Manuscript notes: Transliteration, in Kaempfer's hand, of name Matsumae 松前 on an island between Honshū and Ezo (Hokkaidō). Old shelfmark, Pr: Or: 94, on title slip
    Language:Japanese
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  • 4
    Japanese woodblock materials
    [Nagasaki ezu] [長崎絵図]
    [1680-1688]
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.g.25
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 sheet Condition: Fair. Damage along original folds, but the whole map has been recently re-backed and wrapped round a perspex roller. Impression: Clear and sharp, from blocks showing only slight signs of wear. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on verso of map, now obscured by backing paper
    Language:Japanese
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  • 5
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Dai Nihon zukan 大日本圖鑑 [大日本図鑑]
    [1678]
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.5
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 sheet Condition: Generally good. Whole map recently re-backed with linen. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, impressed on back of map. Manuscript notes: (1) Name in black ink, Japonia, in Kaempfer's hand on title slip. (2) Note in 'Chetqua's' hand on paper slip pasted to front cover: Map of Japan. (3) Old shelfmark, Pr: Or: 134, on title slip
    Language:Japanese
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  • 6
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Honchō zukan kōmoku 本朝圖鑑綱目 [本朝図鑑綱目]
    1687
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.11
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 sheet Condition: Good. Recently re-backed with linen. Impression: Blocks show little sign of wear. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on back of map. Manuscript notes: None on the map itself. Note on paper slip pasted to front cover: Japanese Map of Japan. Old shelfmark: Pr. Or: 125
    Language:Japanese
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  • 7
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Imakiwame dōchū kagami 今極道中鑑
    1691
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.7(1)
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Condition: Good, apart from a few stains. Impression: Slightly atozuri. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on fol. 11b. Manuscript notes: (1) Brief notes in Kaempfer's hand, mostly romanised transcriptions of place names. (2) Note on paper slip pasted to front cover: A Japanese Book of roads. Old shelfmark, Pr: Or: 141, on mikaeshi
    Language:Japanese
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  • 8
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Saikoku kairiku anken ezu 西國海陸安見繪圖 [西国海陸安見絵図]
    [1673-1688]
    Ref:GB 59 Or.70.bbb.9
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:2 scrolls Condition: Good, apart from slight foxing and damaged end-covers. Both rolls re-backed by urauchi. Impression: Sharp and clear, printed from little-worn blocks. Seals of ownership: None. Not even the octagonal MVSEVM BRITANNICVM stamp found in other books of the Kaempfer Collection. Manuscript notes: The majority of place names in the map are transcribed in roman script, written in Kaempfer's small neat hand alongside the names printed in kanji or kana. No manuscript notes elsewhere
    Language:Japanese
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  • 9
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Shokoku anken kaibun no ezu 諸國安見回文之繪圖 [諸国安見回文之絵図]
    1684
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.7(3)
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:2 volumes Condition: Good, apart from a few stained folios. Impression: Near-shozuri. Illustrations: A continuous pictorial map in the form of sumizuri woodcuts along the lower half of each page from fol. 3b to 83a, illustrating the route from Edo to Kyōto along the Tōkaidō 東海道. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on inner back covers of satsu 上 and 下, and on mikaeshi of satsu 下. Manuscript notes: (1) Transliterations of place names, written in Kaempfer's hand, on many of the small paper strips pasted on illustrations from fol. 5b to 26a. (2) manuscript note on covers of both satsu: figurae et picturae cum descriptione magnae viae mediae per Japoniam. tomus superior (inferior). (3) Examined by Chetqua (on front cover of satsu 上). (4) A Japanese Book of Roads (on paper slip pasted to cover of satsu 上). (5) Old shelfmarks: Pr: Or: 138, 139
    Language:Japanese
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  • 10
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Dai Nihon ōdaiki 大日本王代記
    1684
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.2
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Condition: Good. Impression: Atozuri, from worn blocks. Illustrations: 10 double-page sumizuri illustrations on ff. 7b-8a, 16b-17a, 27b-28a, 37b-38a, 47b-48a, 56b-57a, 66b-67a, 75b-76a, 81b-82a and 88b-89a. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on ff. 1b and 109a. Manuscript notes: Notes in Kaempfer's hand in a few places, including romanisation and translation of title slip
    Language:Japanese
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  • 11
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Kami fumi-e
    1688-1704
    Ref:GB 59 ORB 40/1061
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 sheet Materials: Ink and colour on paper. Dimensions: 340 x 230 mm
    Language:Japanese
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  • 12
    The Alun Hoddinott Archive,
    Scrapbook,
    1991.
    Ref:GB 210 BB4/54
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Extent:1 vol. + 1 folder ; 6 cm
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  • 13
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Kyō ōezu 京大繪圖 [京大絵図]
    1686
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.16
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 sheet Condition: Good. Recently re-backed with linen. Impression: An early impression from little-worn blocks. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on reverse of map. Manuscript notes: Transliterated names, etc., in Kaempfer's hand here and there on the map. Also: (1) note on title slip: Ichnographia Urbis Miaco; (2) note on paper slip pasted to front cover: Plan of the city of Miaco in Japan. Japanese; (3) long note on back cover: The Ichnography of the City of Miaco the Chief Seat of the (Hereditary) Eccle / =siastical Emperor of the Japanese. / This City is 9. Miles long (from North to South) / and 6. Miles broad from East to West. / In this City are 3893. Temples of the Religion of Budsdo / 2127. of the Rel. of Sintos / 137. Palaces / 1858. Streets and Paths / 13897. Houses / 87. Bridges / T. Astle [?] 16. Sept. 1762
    Language:Japanese
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  • 14
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Zōho Ōsaka-zu 増補大坂圖 [増補大坂図]
    1688
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.9
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 sheet Condition: Good. Recently re-backed with linen. Impression:Blocks show only slight evidence of wear. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, impressed on back of map. Manuscript notes: Note on paper slip pasted to front cover: A plan of the city of Osacca in Japan. (Not in Kaempfer's hand.) Old shelfmark: Pr: Or: 133
    Language:Japanese
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  • 15
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Nihonkoku ōezu 日本國大繪圖 [日本国大絵図]
    [1684-1688]
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.13(1)
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 sheet Condition: Good. Impression: Sharp and clear, shozuri or near. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on reverse of map. Manuscript notes: Note on paper slip pasted below daisen on front cover: Japanese map of Japan. Old shelfmark: Pr: Or: 93
    Language:Japanese
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  • 16
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Imakiwame dōchū-zuke 今極道中付
    1690
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.7(2)
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Condition: Good. Impression: Slightly atozuri. Illustrations: Small sumizuri vignettes along the lower edge of each page, illustrating scenes on the journey from Edo to Kyōto. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on fol. 3b. Manuscript notes: (1) Note on paper slip pasted on front cover: A Japanese book of roads. (2) Old shelfmark: Pr: Or: 140
    Language:Japanese
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  • 17
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Edo dōchūki 江戸道中記
    1686
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.4
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Condition: Good. Impression: Near-shozuri. Illustrations: One double-page sumizuri woodcut on ff. 1b-2a; 2 single-page woodcuts on ff. 5a and 21b. Seals of ownership: None. Manuscript notes: (1) Notes in red in Kaempfer's hand on fol. 2b and below the woodcut on fol. 21b. (2) Note in 'Chetqua's' hand on paper slip pasted to front cover: A Book for the Information of Travellers. Itinerary to the City of Iedo. Old shelfmark, Pr: Or: 136, on title slip
    Language:Japanese
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  • 18
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Wakan nenpyōroku 倭漢年表錄
    1687
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.f.1
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent: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
    Language:Japanese
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  • 19
    Papers of Katherine Tristram
    1887-1948
    Ref:GB 150 CMS/ACC104
    Location:University of Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library, Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Tristram Katherine.
    Extent:4 files 3 documents 4 packets 7 photographs
    Language:English
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  • 20
    Miscellaneous Japanese manuscripts, especially picture books and picture scrolls, in the Bodleian Library
    17th-20th century
    Ref:GB 161 MSS. Jap. a. 1-2, b. 1-2, 3-5 (R), c. 1-3, 4 (R), 5, 6-8 (R), 20 (R), d. 1-6, 7-8 (R), 9-16, 17 (R), 18-22, 24-50, 51-5 (R), 56-70, e. 1, 2-3 (R), 4-6, 7 (R), 8-9, f. 1-4, g. 1 (R)
    Location:Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
    Name of creator:
    Various.
    Extent:99 shelfmarks
    Language:jap
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