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  • 1
    Bet Davies (WDA) Archive
    Wales and Japan
    1986-2012
    Ref:GB 210 P/1
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Extent:1 box
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  • 2
    Ikebana manuscripts compiled by Yamanaka Chuzaemon entitled 'Shinsen Heika Zui' (New Selection of Illustrated Flower Arrangement)
    Genroku II (1698)
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1862
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Name of creator:
    Yamanaka Chuzaemon fl 1698.
    Extent:2 Volumes
    Language:Japanese
    Digital content
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  • 3
    Winifred Coombe Tennant Papers
    Japanese prints: : donation to the National Museum of Wales,
    1925-1926.
    Ref:GB 210 A2/9
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Extent:1 folder
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  • 4
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Racvyoxv 落葉集
    1598
    Ref:GB 59 Or.59.b.11
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Condition: Fair. Title page soiled and damaged. Many folios stained and wormed. All damage carefully repaired by urauchi backing throughout. Top and bottom cropped. Impression: Type shows little sign of wear. Illustrations: No woodcuts. Decorative shield of the Jesuit Order engraved on title page, surrounded by a border of printer's ornaments. Similar ornaments passim throughout the book, including borders round each iroha heading. Seals of ownership: Oval red seal, Taikadō 待賈堂, on title page. Damaged red seal in an ornamental frame, 江戸四日市古今珍書僧達摩屋五一, on last folio (17b) of Shōgokuhen. Both are seals used by Darumaya Goichi 達摩屋五一 (=Iwamoto Kattōshi 岩本活東子), who was almost certainly responsible for re-covering the book and writing the gedai. Manuscript notes: Two additional ji, with furigana, in upper margin of fol. 28b of honmon
    Language:Japanese
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  • 5
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Setsugetsushū 雪月集
    1692
    Ref:GB 59 16115.f.12
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:3 volumes Condition: Generally good. Some folios soiled and stained, but no worm damage. Impression: Shozuri or near. Illustrations: Sumizuri sketches of hanging scrolls, bonsai, ikebana, tea wares, house ornaments and garden designs, on almost every page. Seals of ownership: None
    Language:Japanese
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  • 6
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Collection of surimono prints
    1790-1850
    Ref:GB 59 16104.d.2
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:521 prints (in 3 albums) Individual prints have been housed in melinex sheets and bound into 3 albums
    Language:Japanese
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  • 7
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Hirune no ame ひる寝の雨.
    1853
    Ref:GB 59 Or.59.e.33
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:2 volumes. Illustrations: 39 colour-printed illustrations of sexual activity each with the title of a stop on the Tōkaidō (vol.1: 19, vol.2: 20). Binding: Original brown covers. Fukurotoji binding
    Language:Japanese
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  • 8
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Kinmō zui 訓蒙圖彙 [訓蒙図彙]
    1666
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.ff.1*
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Condition: Fair to good. Some yellow stains and burn-holes on ff. 3-4 of maki 18 repaired by urauchi patching. Impression: Atozuri, from worn blocks. Illustrations: Sumizuri woodcuts on every page depicting natural phenomena and manmade objects, two to each page (4 per folio). Manuscript notes: Illustrations numbered throughout by Kaempfer, and many names of plants transliterated in roman script in black or red ink, also in Kaempfer's hand. Manuscript note on paper slip pasted to front cover: A Japanese pictorial encyclopedia. Duplicate of the 7th and 8th volumes. Old shelfmark, Pr: Or. 12, on mikaeshi
    Language:Japanese
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  • 9
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Nanshoku hiyoku no tori 男色比翼鳥
    1707
    Ref:GB 59 Or.64.a.17
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume (20 folios) Impression: Atozuri. Illustrations: 3 double-page hand-coloured woodcut illustrations plus tobira-e. Binding: Plain pinkish fawn covers (damaged). Fukurotoji, in a chitsu case. Daisen missing
    Language:Japanese
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  • 10
    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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  • 11
    Illustrated calligraphic ms - c. 1850-1865 - devoted to the ceramic vessels used in the Japanese Tea Ceremony
    1850-1865
    Ref:GB 237 Coll-1693
    Location:Edinburgh University Library Heritage Collections
    Extent:4 Volumes Wrapped in folding slipcase
    Language:Japanese
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  • 12
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Hōgen monogatari 保元物語
    1657
    Ref:GB 59 16052.f.4
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:3 volumes Condition: Generally good. Minor worm damage, severe only in maki 3. Impression: Blocks show some evidence of wear. Illustrations: A total of 35 sumizuri illustrations, distributed as follows: maki 1, ff. 6a, 8a, 12a, 14b, 18b, 22a, 24a, 25a, 29b, 32a, 35b; maki 2, ff. 7b, 17a, 19a, 21b, 23b, 26a, 29a, 31a, 33b, 39a, 40b, 45b, 47a; maki 3, ff. 7b, 11a, 13b, 19b, 22b, 26a, 27a, 31a, 33b, 39a, 40a. Unlike 16052.f.29, these are not hand-coloured. Nevertheless, the rounded and enlarged features of human figures suggest that this edition may have been intended as a tanroku-bon 丹緑本. Seals of ownership: None
    Language:Japanese
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  • 13
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Kinmō zui 訓蒙圖彙 [訓蒙図彙]
    1666
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.ff.1
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Condition: Very good. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Illustrations: Sumizuri woodcuts on every page depicting natural phenomena and manmade objects, two to each page (4 per folio). Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on last page of each satsu. Manuscript notes: Note on mikaeshi of satsu 1: This Book is in the old Character and is probably a Dictionary of Arts. Examined by Chetqua Decr. 17. 1770. Title transliterated (possibly in Kaempfer's hand) on title slip of satsu 8: Kinmodzui. Numbering and some transliterated headings in Kaempfer's hand in a few volumes. Note on paper slip pasted on mikaeshi of satsu 8 (probably in the hand of J. G. Scheuchzer) : The naturall history of Japan, in Chinese, their meteors, anatomy, arts, plants, animals etc. in Japonese language w. some notes of Dr. Kempfer ... Old shelfmarks, Pr. Or. 24, 19, 23, 20, 16, 17, 13, 11, written on mikaeshi of each satsu
    Language:Japanese
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  • 14
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Yakusha sugao natsu no Fuji 俳優素顏夏能富士
    1828
    Ref:GB 59 Or.65.a.9
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Dimensions: 22.0 x 16.0 cm. Printing frame: 18.0 x 13.5 cm. Illustrations: Colour-printed woodcut illustrations. Vol.1: 1 single, 9 double; vol.2: 1 single, 9 double. Seal of ownership: Rectangular red seal '只誠藏' (seal of Sekine Shisei 關根只誠), on fol. 1
    Language:Japanese
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  • 15
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Tenji Tennō 天智天皇
    1689
    Ref:GB 59 16104.b.20/26
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 vol (30 folios) Condition: Good. Original blue covers. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal of William George Aston, 英國阿須頓藏書, on front cover. Manuscript notes: Short note by W. G. Aston in English bound in at the head of the volume. Manuscript note on inside of front cover
    Language:Japanese
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  • 16
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Seirō eshō nenjū gyōji . Ge 青樓繪抄年中行事. 下 [青楼絵抄年中行事. 下]
    1804
    Ref:GB 59 Or.59.b.22
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Illustrations: 9 double-page colour-printed illustrations f.1b-10a. Binding: Rebound in Western style. Greyish-green front cover retained. Seals of ownership: ''只誠臧'' (oblong red seal) [unidentified]
    Language:Japanese
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  • 17
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Onna-goroshi abura no jigoku 女殺油地獄
    1721
    Ref:GB 59 16104.b.20/24
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 vol (49 folios) Condition: Good. Original black covers. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal of William George Aston, 英國阿須頓藏書, on front cover. Manuscript notes: Short note by W. G. Aston in English bound in at the head of the volume
    Language:Japanese
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  • 18
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Shimabaraki 嶋原記 [島原記]
    [1650-1670]
    Ref:GB 59 Or.75.h.2
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume Condition: Very good. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Illustrations: A total of 16 single-page sumizuri woodcuts, distributed as follows: (maki 上) 7; (maki 中) 3; (maki 下) 6. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on first and last folios of each maki (on fol. 2b of maki 上). Manuscript notes: Note pasted on mikaeshi of maki 中: Two volumes of Historicall books of Japan. Examined by Chetqua Decr. 17. 1770. Note on mikaeshi of maki 下: Form of Examination of Criminals / Examined by Mr. Bevan and A Tong / Novr. 25. 1773. Old shelfmarks: Pr. Or. 29, 30, 26
    Language:Japanese
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  • 19
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Utsuho monogatari うつほ物語
    1660
    Ref:GB 59 16055.c.34
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:3 volumes Condition: Good. A clean copy, apart from water stains in satsu 3. Impression: Fairly sharp and clear, with slight evidence of wear on blocks. Illustrations: 12 single-page sumizuri woodcuts, 4 to each satsu. (Satsu 上) ff. 3b, 12a, 22b, 32a; (satsu 中) ff. 37a, 45a, 53b, 63b; (satsu 下) ff. 68a, 76b, 84a, 92a. The illustrations are described in Ryerson Catalogue, p. 46. Seals of ownership: None. The only stamps are those of a book dealer, 本類賣買泉清, at top of first page of each satsu
    Language:Japanese
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  • 20
    Japanese woodblock materials
    Aizomegawa 藍染川
    1684
    Ref:GB 59 16104.b.20/1
    Location:British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
    Extent:1 volume (59 folios) Condition: Good. Seals of ownership: Several small stamps and seals. Manuscript notes: Extensive notes dated Bunka 13-15 文化十三～十五年 (1816-18), written and signed by Ryūtei Tanehiko 柳亭種彦, on mikaeshi. Short note by W. G. Aston in English are bound in at the head of the volume
    Language:Japanese
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