Sugawara no shinnō 菅原親王

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.75.f.23
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1648-1661]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Fair. Some damaged edges. Most folios have been re-backed by urauchi. Impression: Atozuri, from slightly worn blocks. Illustrations: 7 double-page (mihiraki) illustrations in characteristic ko-jōruri style, depicting figures of large size, some with bulging eyes. Crude hand-colouring on some illustrations. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Shikō zō 紫香藏 (seal of Ōkubo Shikō 大久保紫香), on fol. 1a and on endpaper following fol. 21a.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Kinpira monogatari 金平物語. Author/compiler: Unknown, possibly Sakurai Tanbanojō 櫻井丹波掾. Imprint: [Edo] , Mataemon, n.d. [c. Keian-Manji period, 1648-61 ?] . Partial kanki at end of text on fol. 21a reads: 日比谷横町 又右衛門板. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. ff. 21. 18.3 x 13.1 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 16.9 x 12.4 cm. (average). Single-line borders. Black blocking but no fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with printed dakuten but no furigana; in shirami-bon style. 16 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line. Renewed pale green front cover, with renewed title slip bearing manuscript gedai: Kinpira monogatari Edo Izumidayū shōhon 金平物語 江戸和泉太夫正本 ／ 紙數二十一枚. No naidai. Title from E-iri jōrurishi 絵入浄瑠璃史. Hashiragaki: Shinnō しんわう + folio no. In a modern western style cloth binding. Edition: Undated edition published in Edo. Contents: A ko-jōruri shōhon 古浄瑠璃正本 (certified text of a playbook) of the chanter Izumidayū, containing the jōruri play Sugawara no shinnō 菅原親王, also known as Kinpira myakuron 金平みやく論. The text is headed: 江戸和泉太夫正本也.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from William Anderson, 21 March 1894.

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

E-iri jōrurishi 絵入浄瑠璃史, vol. 3, pp. 30-3 (reproducing head of text and 1 illustration); Kinpira jōruri shōhonshū 金平浄瑠璃正本集, vol. 1, pp. 544-8.