Tosa nikki shō 土左日記抄

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16054.c.18
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1661
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Poor. Extensive worm damage, especially in maki 下. Brown stains at inner (binding) edge. Needs re-sewing. Impression: Atozuri, from blocks badly worn in places. Seals of ownership: None. Manuscript notes: Note in black ink following kanki: 珍海之 (花押) ／ 全部主.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Kitamura Kigin 北村季吟, literary scholar and haikai poet, 1624-1705. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Nakano Kozaemon, Kanbun 1, 1661. Kanki on fol. 41b of maki 下 reads: 寛文元年八月吉日 ／ 中野小左衛門刋行. Description: 2 kan, 1 satsu, in a box. (Maki 上) ff. 46; (maki 下) ff. 41. 27 x 17.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 20.9 x 15.7 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with some printed dakuten and kutōten, interspersed with short passages in kanbun containing printed kunten. 11 lines to page, 20-24 characters to line. Dark blue covers, probably original, now discoloured and damaged, with title slip bearing manuscript gedai: 土左日記抄. Title from naidai at head of maki 上 and 下. Hashiragaki: Tosa jō (ge) 土左 上 (下) + folio no. Edition: This is the only known pre-modern edition. Contents: Commentary by Kitamura Kigin on Ki no Tsurayuki's (紀貫之の) Tosa nikki 土佐日記, a diary composed in the 10th century. Commentary completed in Kanbun 1 (1661), the year of publication. Maki 下 ends with a batsu signed by Kigin, dated Manji 4 万治四年 (also=1661).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by purchase, 21 Dec. 1870.

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. 4, p. 467.