Author/compiler: Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫, also known as Zhao Ziang 趙子昻, artist, calligrapher and poet. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Nanbokuchō period, c. 1340-90] . No colophon. Description: 7 kan, formerly in 2 satsu (maki 1-3, 4-7), now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 1) ff. 9 (目録), 28; (2) ff. 10; (3) ff. 9; (4) ff. 9; (5) ff. 17; (6) ff. 14; (7) ff. 2. 21.6 x 13.3 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 17-17.6 x 10.6 cm. Thick single-line borders above and below text. Double-line borders at inner edges of each leaf. Vertical rules between columns. Fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, without printed kunten or reading marks. 11 lines to page, 20 characters to line. Pale fawn front cover only, not original but dating from early Edo period. No title slip. Manuscript gedai (mid-Edo period) reads: 趙子昻詩集 共二. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Chōshi 趙子 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: Gozan-ban printed from newly cut blocks, based on a Chinese Yuan edition. The original kanki, dated 至元辛巳 (七年=1341), is reprinted inkoku at the end of the list of contents (目録, maki 1, fol. 9b). Contents: Collected poems of Zhao Mengfu, entitled Zhao Ziang shiji 趙子昻詩集, compiled and edited by Tan Run 譚潤.
Chō sugō shishū 趙子昻詩集
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 ORB 30/209
- Dates of Creation
- [1340-1390]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Book re-backed by urauchi throughout, repairing some worm holes. Others have appeared since re-backing. Otherwise, a good clean copy. Cropped at top and bottom. Impression: Shozuri or near. Seals of ownership: (1) Square red seal, Asano Genji gomanganrō tosho no ki 淺野源氏五萬巻樓圖書之記, on first page of maki 1 and 4. (2) Oblong red seal, 淺長祚珍賞印, on first page of maki 2. (3) Square red seal, 淺胤卿賞識, on first page of maki 7. The above three are all seals used by Asano Nagayoshi 淺野長祚. (4) Square red seals, Dokuto sōdō 讀杜艸堂, and 寺田盛業, on first page of maki 1 and 4. Both seals used by Terada Bōnan 寺田望南. (5) Square red seal. Ōyōkaku toshoki 歐陽閣圖書記, on first page of maki 1 and 4. (6) Oblong red seal, Shiro bunko 賜蘆文庫 (seal of Shinmi Masamichi 新見正路), on last page of maki 3 and first page of maki 4. (7) Square red seal, 漱芳閣清賞, on last page of maki 7 (a further seal used by Asano Nagayoshi 淺野長祚). Manuscript notes: Note by a Gozan monk, Gishun 義俊, of mid-Muromachi period, on inner margin of first page of book (目録), reads as follows: 東峰記室寮公用 義俊置焉. Gishun's personal seal in red is impressed on first page of 目録 and of maki 3. Shikigo in red ink (Muromachi period) on last page (fol. 2b, maki 7) reads: 点引清軒西端北窓.
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Acquisition Information
Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.
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
Gozanban no kenkyū 五山版の研究, pp. 208, 480, pl. 388; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 81; Kokuritsu kokkai toshokan shozō kichōsho kaidai 国立国会図書館所蔵貴重書解題, vol. 2, p. 64; Zenpon eifu 善本影譜, series 1, vol. 10.