Onna chōhōki 女重寶記

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16124.d.24
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1700-1704]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Good, apart from soiled folios in maki 1. Impression: Variable. Mostly atozuri, but some folios have been replaced (hokoku 補刻) from re-cut blocks. Illustrations: 20 single-page sumizuri woodcuts, distributed as follows: (maki 1) 4; (2) 5; (3) 4; (4) 4; (5) 3 (the latter modelled on illustrations in maki 5 of Onna shoreishū 女諸禮集, q. v.). In addition, maki 5 contains small vignettes at head of each page, showing (a) symbols from Genji monogatari and associated incense perfumes, (b) patterns of folded paper, and (c) fan paintings with poems. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Shinpan zōho onna chōhōki 新板増補女重寶記. Author/compiler: Namura Jōhaku 苗村丈伯, physician, fl. late-17th century. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Yoshinoya Tōbē, n.d. [late-Genroku period, c. 1700-04 ?] . Mokki in lower left-hand corner of fol. 17a of maki 5 reads: 寺町通二條下ル町 ／ 吉野屋藤兵衛. Description: 5 kan, formerly in 5 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 1) ff. 16; (2) ff. 15; (3) ff. 16; (4) ff. 17; (5) ff. 17. 25.2 x 16.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 20.2 x 14.5 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with printed furigana and dakuten. 12 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line. Renewed front cover of grey, coarse paper, with renewed pink embossed title slip bearing manuscript gedai: 新刻増補 (角書) 女重寶記. Naidai at head of each maki: Shinpan zōho onna chōhōki 新板増補女重寶記. Hashiragaki: Onna chōhōki 女調法記 + maki no. + folio no. Edition: Undated edition, probably issued after the 3 dated editions of Genroku 5 (1692), Genroku 13 (1700) and Genroku 15 (1702), and before the edition of Hōei 8 (1711) which was re-titled Onna chōhōki taisei 女重寶記大成. Contents: A manual of practical domestic information for women of the buke and chōnin classes.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from James Tregaskis, London bookseller, 16 April 1901.

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 13.Social life, including manuals of behaviour 社会

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 538; Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , p. 83.