Kakubiki senjimon 畫引千字文 [画引千字文]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.75.h.1
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1686
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 2 volumes Condition: Very good. Impression: Shozuri or near. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on fol. 94b following kanki. Manuscript notes: Note in Kaempfer's hand on mikaeshi: Dictionarium utriusq. Common ab 2 ad 30 Quakus, s. virgulis. Char. Sin シン Kommon コモン Faf ハフ (a sin parum differente) et soo ソウ. Apellatione ad dextram Characteristica literatorum, ad sinistram vulgari.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Original work attributed to Zhou Xingsi 周興嗣 of the Liang Dynasty. Imprint: [Kyōto ?] , Umemura Yahakushi, Jōkyō 3, 1686. Kanki on fol. 94b reads: 貞享三年仲春穀旦 ／ 書林梅村 彌白子印. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a box. ff. 94. 131 x 192 mm. (yokohon). Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 109 × 168 mm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Vertical rules between columns. Kanji, with printed furigana (katakana). (Index) 7 lines to page, 8 characters to line; (main text) 6 lines to page, 5 characters to line. Original dark blue covers. Original title slip on left, with printed gedai: 五體 (角書) 畫引千字文 全. Title from naidai at head of index. Naidai at head of main text: Senjimon 千字文. Hashiragaki: Senjimon 千字文 + folio no. Contents: Text of the Chinese 'Thousand Character Classic' in five styles of script: kaisho, two forms of seal script, gyōsho and sōsho. With Japanese on and kun readings for each character. Main text preceded by an index arranged under number of strokes. Kanbun preface, dated Jōkyō 2 (1685), and batsu on fol. 94b.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased from the estate of Engelbert Kaempfer by Sir Hans Sloane 1723-1725 and incorporated in the British Museum in 1753.

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 8. Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 d. Jōruri 浄瑠璃

Bibliography

Tōhoku daigaku fuzoku toshokan betchibon mokuroku 東北大学附属図書館別置本目録, p. 53.