Author/compiler: Huang Tingjian 黃庭堅, also known as Shangu 山谷, poet and calligrapher, 1045-1105. Commentary by REN Yuan 任淵. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keichō / Genna period, c. 1600-24] . No colophon. Description: 21 kan (1 kan 目録 + 20 kan 本文), formerly in 11 satsu, now rebound in 2 vols. western style. 28.6 x 20.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 21.8 x 17.5 cm. (average). Double-line borders all round. Vertical rules between columns. 'Flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, without printed kunten or reading marks. 8 lines to page (double for commentary), 17 characters to line. Original dark brown front covers of former satsu 1 (目録 + 年譜) and former satsu 6 (maki 9-10) only, with original printed title slips. Gedai: (1) 山谷 年譜; (2) 山谷 九•十. Title from naidai. Title at head of preface (preceding 本文, maki 1) : 黃陳詩集註 序. Hashiragaki: Sankoku 山谷 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: Kokatsujiban no kenkyū identifies 9 distinct movable type editions of this work, 6 with commentary and 3 without, all undated. Of these, the present copy clearly belongs to the Keichō / Genna edition. These movable type editions follow an earlier blockprint of Nanbokuchō period, itself modelled on a Chinese edition of the Song period. Contents: Collected poems of Huang Tingjian (Shangu 山谷), compiled and edited with commentary by Ren Yuan 任淵 in the mid-12th century.
Sankoku shi shūchū 山谷詩集注
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- Reference
- GB 59 ORB 30/213
- Former Reference
- GB 59 15324.d.3
- Dates of Creation
- [1600-1624]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes Condition: Good. A clean well-preserved copy, but with minor worm damage (not repaired). Printed text of ff. 11-15, maki 18, missing but replaced in manuscript. Impression: Fair. Type shows marked signs of wear. Seals of ownership: None. Manuscript.notes: Kunten and kaeriten in black ink added to main text (本文) shortly after publication of the work. A few shubiki and kutōten in red in maki 1 and 2.
Scope and Content
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 7. Chinese literature 中国文学
Bibliography
Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 80, 394, 836-7, pl. 249; Ishii Sekisuiken bunko zenpon shomoku 石井積翠軒文庫善本書目, p. 165, pl. 340; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 1, p. 84; Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 107.