Aro kassen monogatari 鴉鷺合戰物語 [鴉鷺合戦物語]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16107.c.53
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1649
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 4 volumes Condition: Fair to good. A clean copy, but with worm damage (unrepaired) in each maki, extensive in places. Many folios are split and discoloured along fore-edge. Impression: Printed from little-worn type. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Onkodō bunko 温故堂文庫 (seal of Hanawa Hokiichi 塙保己一, 1746-1821), on first page of each maki. Also a smaller oblong red seal, Hamada-kō no fu no tosho 浜田侯之府之圖書 (seal of the Matsudaira 松平 family), on the same pages. Manuscript notes: A kanbun version of certain passages in the work appears as headnotes in the upper margins of maki 1-3.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Unknown. Formerly attributed to Ichijō Kaneyoshi (also read kanera) 一條兼良, 1402-81. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Araki Rihē, Keian 2, 1649. Kanki on last folio of maki 4 reads: 慶安二年正月吉日 荒木利兵衛 開板. [N.b. Furigana beside the year period (nengō) in this kanki indicates reading Kyōan 慶 (きやう) 安, not Keian.]. Description: 4 kan, 4 satsu, in a box. (Maki 1) ff. [37]; (2) ff. [31]; (3) ff. [34]; (4) ff. [25] . Folios unnumbered. 27.3 x 18.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 22.5 x 17.3 cm. (approx.). No borders. No vertical rules. No printed hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 11 lines to page, 19 characters to line. Renewed light-blue covers without title slips. Handwritten gedai on left: 鴉鷺合戰物語. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Edition: A movable type edition. Contents: A story of the Muromachi period, unusually long for a work of this type, written in the 15th or early 16th century. Often classed as an otogi-zōshi tale.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by purchase, 8 June 1959.

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 5. Literature - fiction 国文-小説 e. Muromachi jidai monogatari 室町時代物語

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 101; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 594, 931, 956, pl. 541; Nihon bungaku shoshi 日本文学書誌, p. 662; text reprinted in Muromachi jidai monogatari taisei 室町時代物語大成, vol. 2, pp. 53-184.