Naikaku hiden jifu 内閣祕傳字府 [内閣秘伝字府]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16131.b.15
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1664
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Fair to good. Worm damage in upper margins and in gutter. Corners soiled. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Seals of ownership: Square red seal printed inkoku, 釋氏行華, on ff. 1a, 19a and 67a.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Rekidai meisho yōron 歷代名書要論. Author/compiler: Unknown Chinese author. Text revised for publication by Huang Ao 黄鍪 and Huang Yue 黄鉞. Imprint: [Kyōto ?] , Yamada Rokuzaemon, Kanbun 4, 1664. Kanki on fol. 83b reads: 寛文四甲辰暦三月吉旦 ／ 山田六左衛門刋. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. ff. 4 (preface), 1-3 (序次), 4-83 (本文). 26.2 x 16.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 20.4 x 14.4 cm. (average). Double-line borders. Single white fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, with printed okurigana and kaeriten. 10 lines to page, 21 characters to line. Renewed blue front cover of former satsu 1 only, with embossed hexagonal pattern. Renewed title slip with manuscript gedai: 内閣祕傳字府. Title from gedai and mokurokudai. Naidai at head of text: Rekidai meisho yōron 歷代名書要論. Kōjo on ff. 81-83 is headed: Chūsho hippō 中書筆法. Hashiragaki: folio number only. Original Chinese preface on first 4 folios, signed by Chen Tong 陳桐 and dated 隆慶二年 (1568). Contents: Japanese reprint of a Chinese manual of calligraphy based on the work of noted calligraphers of the past, with large-scale reproductions of individual kanji.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.

Other Finding Aids

Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). A. Chinese works 漢籍 10. Fine and amateur arts 芸術・諸芸