Author/compiler: Unknown. Text edited with notes by Wang Bi 王弼. Imprint: N.p. [Fushimi 伏見] , Jōtai 承兌, Keichō 10 慶長十年, 1605. Last two lines of long kango or batsubun, written and signed by Jōtai (or Shōtai) 承兌 read: 慶長十年星集乙巳孟夏初五日 ／ 鹿苑西笑叟承兌. Description: Page size 24.9 x 19.3 cm. Manuscript okurigana and kaeriten added c. Keichō period (early 17th century) throughout text. Red front cover (late-Edo or early Meiji period) of satsu 1 only. Manuscript gedai on a title slip in the hand of Asano Nagayoshi 淺野長祚 (d. 1880) reads: 慶長御版王弼註周易 長祚珍襲智. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: Fushimi-ban, published by Jōtai 承兌 at the command of the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Seishō Jōtai 西笑承兌, a scholar-monk of the Rinzai sect appointed to the Shōkokuji 相國寺 in 1584, was a trusted adviser to both Hideyoshi and Ieyasu in religious and diplomatic affairs. He was responsible also for supervising the publication of another Fushimi-ban, Jōgan seiyō 貞觀政要, and a Hideyori-ban, Teikan zusetsu 帝鑑圖説. It is probable that the monk San'yō 三要, who supervised the publication of several other Fushimi-ban, was also to some extent involved in publishing this edition of Shūeki 周易. All Fushimi editions employed a similar hanshiki, including the present work. Contents: Text of Zhouyi 周易 or Yijing 易經, the Book of Changes, with commentary by Wang Bi 王弼.
Shūeki 周易
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 ORB 30/178
- Dates of Creation
- 1605
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Cropped at top and bottom, otherwise good. Minimal worm damage. Whole book repaired and reinforced by urauchi (see below). Impression: Reasonably sharp, but showing more evidence of type wear than no. 21 above. Seals of ownership: Four square seals of Terada Bōnan 寺田望南, two red and two blue, on sheets inserted at head of maki 1, 3 and 5: (1) 寺田盛業; (2) 字士弘号望南; (3) 東京溜池靈南街第六號讀杜艸堂主人寺田盛業印記 ； (4) 讀杜艸堂. Also a square red seal, 淺野源氏五萬巻樓圖書之記 (seal of Asano Nagayoshi 淺野長祚) on same sheets.
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Acquisition Information
Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.
Note
Another copy of no. 21 above, identical except in the following respects
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 2. Chinese classics 経書
Bibliography
Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 216-7, 371, 695, pl. 26; Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 342; Kokuritsu kokkai toshokan shozō kichōsho kaidai 国立国会図書館所蔵貴重書解題, vol. 2, p. 53; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 1, p. 60; Ryūmon bunko zenpon shomoku 竜門文庫善本書目, p. 170, pl. 148.