Tōin hiji 棠陰比事

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 ORB 30/190
  • Former Reference
    • GB 59 15237.c.7
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1624-1644]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Very good. Brown stain on mikaeshi and first 3 folios. No wormage. Impression: Sharp and clear. Seals of ownership: Oval red seal, Tōheki 東壁, on first page of maki 上. Manuscript notes: Shubiki and kutōten added in red on first 22 folios of maki 上 only.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Gui Wanrong 桂萬榮, c. 1170-1265. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Kan'ei period, 1624-44] . No colophon. Description: 3 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (上) ff. 4 (序), 4 (目録), 28; (中) ff. 27; (下) ff. 34. 29.7 x 21.6 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 24 x 18.2 cm. Double-line borders all round. Vertical rules between columns. 'Flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text without printed kunten. 10 lines to page, 18 characters to line. Original mid-brown front cover only, without title slip. Manuscript gedai:□陰比事 (partly obliterated). Hashiragaki: Tōin hiji jō 棠陰比事上 (chū, 中 ge 下) + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: Two variant movable type editions of Kan'ei period are known. The typesetting is very similar in both cases, but the present copy belongs to the edition printed with rules between the columns of type. The other edition has no rules. Contents: Japanese edition of Tangyin bishi 棠陰比事, a collection of 144 selected civil and criminal law cases, covering a period of c. 300 BC to c. 1100 AD. Compiled by Gui Wanrong in 1211. This work was translated into Japanese and adapted to kana-zōshi form with the title Tōin hiji monogatari 棠陰比事物語.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Donated to the British Museum by (Sir) Ernest M. Satow 13 June 1885.

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 6. Law, government, administration and economics 法制・政治・行政・経済

Bibliography

Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 387, 830, pl. 213 (無界本), 840; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 1, p. 73.