Variant title: Shinkan kinshūdan 新刋錦繡段 [新刊錦繍段]. Author/compiler: Ryūtaku 龍澤, also known as Ten'in 天隱, Zen monk of the Kenninji, Kyōto, 1422-1500. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keichō period, c. 1600-15] . No colophon. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu. ff. 56, [1] (batsu). 31.4 x 21.3 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 21.5 x 17.3 cm. Double-line borders all round. Fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, without printed kunten or reading marks. 9 lines to page, 16 characters to line. Original covers, mid- to dark-brown, without title slip. Gedai handwritten in red ink: 錦繡叚 (ママ) 完. Naidai at head of text: Shinkan kinshūdan 新刋錦繡叚 (ママ). Hashiragaki: Kinshūdan 錦繡叚 (ママ) + folio no. In a modern chitsu case. Edition: The second Japanese edition of this work, printed with movable type in Keichō period, probably within a few years of publication of the earliest edition, a chokuhan 勅版 dated Keichō 2, 1597. A batsu by the compiler, Ten'in Ryūtaku, follows the last numbered folio (56) of the present copy, ending with the following two lines: 庚 (ママ) [=康] 正丙子林鐘十有七日 ／ 建仁天隱叟默雲龍澤. Contents: An anthology of 7-syllable poems by Chinese poets of the Tang, Song and Yuan periods, selected and edited by the monk Ryūtaku in Kōshō 2 康正二年, 1456 (date reprinted in batsu above). Ryūtaku, a scholar of note in the Gozan monasteries of Kyōto, argued a close relationship between Chinese poetry and Zen.
Kinshūdan 錦繡段
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 Or.81.c.23
- Dates of Creation
- [1600-1615]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Fair to good. Worm damage considerable, but skilfully repaired by urauchi throughout the book. Damp stains in some upper margins. Impression: Clear and sharp, from scarcely-worn type. Seals of ownership: Large oblong black seal, Enman'in hōzō 圓満院法藏, following batsu on last printed page. Manuscript notes: Okurigana (katakana) and kaeriten added throughout, with a few shubiki in red on ff. 1-17.
Scope and Content
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Acquisition Information
Acquired through Gyokueidō from Tōkyō Kotenkai 東京古典会 auction salein December 1983.
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 7. Chinese literature 中国文学
Bibliography
Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 178, 574, pl. 497; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 3, p. 269; Kokuritsu kokkai toshokan shozō kichōsho kaidai 国立国会図書館所蔵貴重書解題, vol. 2, p. 37, pl. 19-20.