Senshi 泉志

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16083.c.12
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1697
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Generally good, but first and last maki are water-stained. Cropped at upper edge. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Illustrations: Illustrated in-text with many sumizuri sketches of Chinese coins. Seals of ownership: Square red seal, Matsushita-shi in 松下氏印, on first page of each maki. Also one square red seal (indecipherable) printed inkoku on lower part of title slip.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Hong Zun 洪遵. Imprint: Kyōto, Hayashi Kyūbē, Genroku 10, 1697. Kanki on last folio of maki 15 reads: 元禄十年丁丑正月之吉 ／ 京東洞院通夷川上町林九兵衛梓. Description: 15 kan, formerly in 5 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Preliminary maki) ff. 1 (序), 1 (序-preface written by author), 12 (総目); (maki 1) ff. 10; (2) ff. 18; (3) ff. 11; (4) ff. 11; (5) ff. 8; (6) ff. 7; (7) ff. 7; (8) ff. 2; (9) ff. 12; (10) ff. 4; (11) ff. 9; (12) ff. 14; (13) ff. 10; (14) ff. 8; (15) ff. 6, 2 (跋). 22.1 x 16 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 18.5 x 13.8 cm. (average). Single-line borders. Single white fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, with printed okurigana and kaeriten. 9 lines to page, 18 characters to line. Original dark grey front cover of preliminary maki only, with original printed title slip. Gedai: 泉志 序目. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Senshi 泉志 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: Believed to be the only Edo-period edition. Contents: Japanese edition of a historical work on Chinese coinage, compiled by Hong Zun in the Song period. Chinese title: Quanzhi 泉志.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.

Other Finding Aids

Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). A. Chinese works 漢籍 6. Law, government, administration and economics 法制・政治・行政・経済