Tashikihen 多識編

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.59.bb.6
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1631
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Excellent. Impression: Shozuri, or near. Seals of ownership: Two square seals on first page of maki 1 and 4: dark blue seal, Munenobu no in 宗延之印, and red seal, Hōshun shoin shozō 芳春書院所蔵.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Kokon wamyō honzō narabini imyō 古今和名本草并異名. Variant title: Shinkan tashikihen 新刋多識編. Author/compiler: Hayashi Razan 林羅山, 1583-1657, also known as Dōshun 道春. Imprint: Kyōto, Murakami Sōshin, Tanaka Chōzaemon, Kan'ei 8, 1631. Kanki on fol. 14b of maki 5 reads: 寛永八年辛未孟春吉辰 ／ 二条村上宗信 ／ 玉屋町田中長左衛門 開板. Description: 5 kan, 2 satsu, bound in 1 vol. (western style). (1) ff. 1, 2, 25; (2) ff. 27; (3) ff. 29; (4) ff. 46; (5) ff. 14. 27.5 x 18.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 21 x 17 cm. Double-line borders, one thick, one thin, with 'flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Vertical rules. Text in kanji, with some printed kunten. 10 lines to page, 17 characters to line. Blue (original ?) front cover of satsu 1 only, within western-style half-leather binding. No title slip. Handwritten gedai: 新刻多識編 上, dating from early Edo period. Naidai: Shinkan tashikihen 新刋多識編. Hashiragaki: Tashiki 多識 + maki no. + folio no. Edition: The first blockprinted edition, preceded by the first movable type edition in the previous year, Kan'ei 7, 1630. Followed by many undated editions. Contents: A classified dictionary of names of plants, animals and natural phenomena, chiefly drawn from the botanical work Honzō kōmoku 本草綱目, with phonetic readings and meanings set out in man'yōgana. Modelled on a Chinese (Ming 明) work of the same title, classifying botanical terms, etc., from the 詩經.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Donated 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). C. Japanese works 和書 14. Physical sciences 自然科学 b. Botany, including materia medica 本草学

Bibliography

Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 380, 919; Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 4, p. 158; Tashikihen jihitsu kōhon kanpon sanshu kenkyū narabini sōgō sakuin 多識編自筆稿本刊本三種研究並びに総合索引 (Kojisho taikei 古辞書大系, vol. 10).