Tariki honganki 他力本願記

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.75.g.23(2)
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1679
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Very good. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Illustrations: A total of 7 sumizuri illustrations, 4 double-page (mihiraki) and 3 single-page, distributed as follows: ff. 4b-5a, 7a, 9a, 11b-12a, 14a, 17b-18a, 18b-19a. Seals of ownership: Octagonal British Museum stamp, MVSEVM BRITANNICVM, on fol. 1a. Manuscript notes: Note on mikaeshi: A Story Book before the Time of Confucius / Examined by Chetqua Decr. 17. 1770. No notes in Kaempfer's hand.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Kyōto, Shōhon'ya Kiemon] , Enpō 7, 1679. Kanki on fol. 20a reads: 延寶七己未年卯月吉日太夫正本. Publisher not named in this kanki, but see gedai on title slip transcribed below for details of his name and address. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, formerly bound in western style together with nos. 496, 497, 630. ff. 20. 218 x 162 mm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 200 x 154 mm. (average). Single-line borders. 'Flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with dakuten, kutōten and some fushi. Text closely printed, approaching shirami-bon in style. 17 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line. Original black covers embossed with a lattice and peony design. Original printed title slip on left, bearing gedai and details of publisher as follows: 他力 (角書) 本願記 ／ 二条通 ／ 正本屋 ／ 喜右衛門. A second title slip, square in shape and attributing authorship of the play incorrectly to Chikamatsu Monzaemon 近松門左衞門, has been pasted on the front cover beside the original title slip. This is almost certainly a later addition, taken from a different book. Title from naidai on fol. 1a. Hashiragaki: たりき + folio no. Contents: Text of an early jōruri (ko-jōruri 古浄瑠璃) dramatic narrative.

Access Information

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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.