Ono no Komachi kashū 小野小町家集

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16100.c.32
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1650-1700]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Good, apart from some water stains and soiled corners. Impression: Atozuri, from slightly worn blocks. Illustrations: 10 single-page sumizuri woodcuts in conventional style, 6 in satsu 上 and 4 in satsu 下. Seals of ownership: Square red seal, Shindō zōsho 慎堂蔵書, on first page of each satsu. Two square red seals, one 常則之印, the other unidentified, on last page of each satsu.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Komachi kashū 小町家集. Variant title: Komachishu 小町集. Author/compiler: Ono no Komachi 小野小町, one of the Six Poets 六歌仙 of waka poetry, fl. early Heian period, 9th century. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [mid- to late-17th century] . No colophon. Description: 1 kan, 2 satsu, in a box. (Satsu 上) ff. 23; (satsu 下) ff. 13. 22.5 x 16.3 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 16 x 11.5 cm. (average). No borders, except round illustrations. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text without furigana. 8 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line. Original dark blue covers with vestiges of floral design in silver on front. Original printed title slip, centrally placed, on satsu 上 only. Gedai: Komachi kashū jō 小町家集 上. Hashiragaki: Komachi jō (ge) 小町上 (下) ＋ folio no. Edition: Undated, illustrated edition published in mid- to late-17th century. The only other edition noted in Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録 is included in the larger collection Kasen kashū 歌仙家集, 15 satsu, published in Shōhō 4 (1647). Contents: 116 waka poems by Ono no Komachi, selected from the Kokinshū 古今集 and other imperial anthologies and supplemented from other sources by an unknown compiler.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Richard Lane, 5 Aug. 1958.

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. 2, p. 665.