Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Yoshida Saburōbē, Itō Heihachi, Genroku 4, 1691. Kanki reads: 元禄四年辛未正月吉辰 ／ 書肆 ／ 吉田三郎兵衛 ／ 伊藤平八. Description: 2 kan, 2 satsu, in a box. Incomplete copy: maki 中 and 下 only. 22.1 x 15 cm. Original pale buff covers with only vestiges of original title slips. No gedai. Edition: A late impression from the first edition. Kanki of earlier impressions contain the publisher's name Itō Heihachi 伊藤平八 as well as Yoshida Saburōbē but all were printed from the same blocks. A further edition followed in Tenmei 1 (1781). Contents: An anthology of waka poems on numerical themes, e.g. the four seasons, eight landscape views, etc.
Shigi no hanekaki 鴫羽搔
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- Reference
- GB 59 16100.c.21*
- Dates of Creation
- 1691
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes Condition: Good, apart from a few stains and rubbed covers. Impression: Not shozuri, but reasonably sharp and clear. Illustrations: A total of 86 sumizuri illustrations, occupying the lower half of the page: 15 in maki 上, of which 12 are portraits of poets, 32 in maki 中, and 34 in maki 下. Most of them illustrate scenes from the poems. Seals of ownership: None.
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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 7. Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 b. Waka 和歌
Bibliography
Kokusho kaidai 国書解題, p. 875; Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , p. 83.