Variant title: Shinodazuma しのだつま. Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Shōhon'ya Kyūbē, Enpō 2, 1674. Kanki on fol. 21a reads: 延寶二甲寅年九月吉日. (Publisher's name appears on title slip.). Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a box. ff. 21. 218 x 157 mm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 198 x 150 mm. (average). Single-line borders. Fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, densely printed, with printed dakuten. 17 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line. Original black covers embossed with a lattice and peony design. Original title slip on left, with printed gedai which reads (in part): つりぎつね ／ しのだつま ／ 并ニせいめいしゆつしやうの事 ／ 御堂筋 ／ 正本屋 ／ 九兵衛. Title from naidai on fol. 1a. Hashiragaki: しのたつま on some folios, しのた on others + folio no. Edition: This appears to be a later printing of the first (and only) edition under this title, published by Tsuruya Kiemon 鶴屋喜右衞門 in Enpō 2 (1674). A version of the same work entitled simply Shinodazuma しのだづま was published in Enpō 6 (1678), 18 lines to the page. Contents: A ko-jōruri shōhon (certified text of a jōruri playbook) concerning the legend of Abe no Seimei, son of Abe no Yasuna and the fox-woman of Shinoda.
Shinodazuma tsurigitsune narabini Abe no Seimei shusshō しのだづまつりぎつね并あべ清明出生
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or.75.g.24
- Dates of Creation
- 1674
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Good. Impression: Atozuri from moderately worn blocks. Illustrations: A total of 5 double-page (mihiraki) and 1 single-page sumizuri woodcuts, distributed as follows: ff. 2b-3a, 5b-6a, 8b-9a, 13b-14a, 17a (single), 18b-19a. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on fol. 5b. Manuscript notes: Note on paper slip pasted beside title slip on front cover: History of Abino Sime, Son of Abino Iassima. See Kaempfer, Introduction, p. xlviii. Short title on title slip transliterated in Kaempfer's hand. Notes in two different hands on mikaeshi: (1) Historia Abino Seime filii Caesaris Abino jassima; (2) A Story Book before the time of Confucius, examined by Chetqua Decr. 17. 1770.
Scope and Content
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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.