Variant title: Shin kokinshū 新古今集. Author/compiler: Fujiwara no Sadaie (Teika) 藤原定家,1162-1241, and others. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keichō / Genna period, c. 1600-24] . No colophon. Description: 20 kan, formerly in 4 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. Folios unnumbered. 26.9 x 19.2 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 21.5 x 16.9 cm. No borders. No printed hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text without furigana. 11 lines to page, 20 characters to line. Original dark blue front cover of satsu 1 only, embossed with a pattern of flowers and tendrils. Centrally-placed title slip added later, with manuscript gedai (mid-Edo period) : Shin kokin wakashū 新古今和歌集. Title from naidai. In a modern western style half-leather binding. Edition: The first printed edition of this work. Earlier of two movable type editions, undated but printed in Keichō or Genna period. An endnote on the last folio, printed integrally with the text, states that this edition was typeset on the basis of the Ninnaji-no-miya 仁和寺宮本 manuscript copied in Ōei 19 応永十九年 (1412) from Fujiwara no Sadaie's original autograph. It lacks the mana 真名 preface, but contains the kana-majiri preface of the original. A second movable type edition, also undated, was printed in Genna or Kan'ei period, using a different type font of smaller size. Contents: After the Kokinshū 古今集, this is the greatest of all the 21 imperial anthologies of waka poetry, commissioned by the retired emperor Go-Toba in 1201 and officially completed in 1205 by Fujiwara no Sadaie and a group of high-ranking courtiers. Comprises 1981 poems in 20 kan.
Shin kokin wakashū 新古今和哥集
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or.75.e.14
- Dates of Creation
- [1600-1624]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Good, apart from minor worm damage in places, repaired by urauchi. Lower corners of preface slightly soiled. Impression: A fairly clear impression, but type shows some signs of wear. Seals of ownership: None. Manuscript notes: Extensive textual notes in red and black, some interlinear and some on pasted-in slips of thin paper, dating from early Edo period.
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Acquisition Information
Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.
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
Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 551-2, 903, pl. 453; Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 462; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 3, p. 98; Takagi bunko kokatsuji-ban mokuroku 高木文庫古活字版目録, p. 28, pl. 30.