Sarashina no nikki さらしなの日記

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16055.c.51
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1704
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Good. Only slight soiling and stains on first few folios. Some folios split along fore-edge. Impression: Shozuri or near. Illustrations: 17 single-page sumizuri woodcuts on ff. 3a, 7a, 13a, 19a, 23a, 27b, 32a, 37a, 41a, 45b, 49a, 53b, 59a, 63a, 67b, 70a and 73b. Seals of ownership: Small red seal, printed inkoku, (not deciphered), on fol. 1a. Manuscript notes: Genealogical table of the Sugawara family on mikaeshi. A few headnotes in black in upper margins. Interlinear textual notes and shubiki in red scattered throughout the text.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Sarashina nikki 更級日記. Author/compiler: Sugawara no Takasue no musume 菅原孝標女, daughter of Sugawara no Takasue, b. 1008. Imprint: [Edo] , Enjakudō [= Hiranoya Kichibē 平野屋吉兵衞] , Genroku17, 1704. Kanki on fol. 75a reads: 元禄十七甲申載孟春朔旦 ／ 武陽城之西北牛込魚肆 書林燕萑 (ママ) [ = 雀] 堂 藏版. Description: 4 kan, 1 satsu, in a chitsu case. ff. 75. Continuous foliation; no breaks in text between one maki and the next. 22.8 x 16.1 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 17.8 x 13.3 cm. (average). Single-line borders round each individual page. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana and kutōten. 10 lines to page, 20-22 characters to line. Renewed light blue covers without title slip. Manuscript gedai in gyōsho script on left of cover: さらしなの日記. Title from naidai at head of maki 1. Hashiragaki: [no title] , maki no 1 (etc.) 巻之一 (等) + folio no. Edition: The earliest printed edition, followed by the only other pre-modern edition in Tenpō 9 天保九年 (1838). Contents: Diary of the daughter of Sugawara no Takasue, a lady inclined towards fantasy and romanticism, recording emotional events in her life and illuminated by many waka poems. Written c. 1060.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Rinrōkaku, 15 Oct. 1963.

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 6.Literature - prose 国文-散文 a.Diaries 日記

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 83