Shin kasen 新謌仙 [新歌仙]

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 16100.c.35
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1661-1673]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Excellent. Impression: Shozuri. A sharp, black impression. Illustrations: Portraits of the 'new' 36 poets, printed sumizuri in the lower half of each page. Illustrator unknown. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Hayashi Izuminojō, n.d. [c. Kanbun period, 1661-73 ?] . Publisher's name printed on back endpaper reads: 林和泉掾板行. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a chitsu case. ff. 18. 23.7 x 15.9 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 16.8 (average) x 12.1 cm. Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 6-7 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line. Original embossed vermilion covers, with title slip on left bearing printed gedai: 新謌仙. No naidai. Title from gedai. Hashiragaki: Shin kasen 新歌仙 + folio no. Printed on good quality tōshi 唐紙 paper. Edition: Not identified. An edition was published in Kanbun 1 (1661) and a 7-satsu set entitled Kasen 歌仙, comprising Ko kasen 古歌仙, Chūko kasen 中古歌仙, Shin kasen 新歌仙, etc., was also published in Kanbun 1 (1661). The present copy may belong to one of these editions. Contents: A new version of the Thirty-six Poets (Sanjurokkasen 三十六歌仙) comprising emperors, court nobles and other poets, beginning with Emperor Go-Toba and ending with Saigyō Hōshi 西行法師. One poem and a portrait of the poet on each page.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Isseidō, 24 April 1963.

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

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 632; Okayama daigaku shozō Ikeda-ke bunko sōmokuroku 岡山大学所蔵池田家文庫総目録, p. 143.