Setsugetsushū 雪月集

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16115.f.12
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1692
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 3 volumes Condition: Generally good. Some folios soiled and stained, but no worm damage. Impression: Shozuri or near. Illustrations: Sumizuri sketches of hanging scrolls, bonsai, ikebana, tea wares, house ornaments and garden designs, on almost every page. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Not recorded. Likely to be the work of Endō Genkan 遠藤元閑, writer of the preface. Imprint: Rakuyō [Kyōto] , Umemura Yaemon, Genroku 5, 1692. Kanki on fol. 33b of maki 下 reads: 元禄五壬申年孟春日 ／ 書林洛陽五條橋砌 ／ 梅村彌右衛門壽梓. Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu, in a box. (Maki 上) ff. [1] (序), 20; (maki 中) ff. 15; (maki 下) ff. 1-10, 11 / 15, 16-33. 21.3 x 16 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 18.5 x 14.6 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri and katakana-majiri text, with few furigana. Variable no. of lines to page and characters to line. Renewed cloth covers, late Edo period, with colour-printed designs of artists' seals in ornamental frames. New plain endpaper, not pasted down on inner covers. Renewed title slips painted silver, now tarnished. Manuscript gedai: 雪月集. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: 上, 下 (lacking from maki 中) + folio no. Edition: First edition, in 2 kan according to Kokusho sōmokuroku 国書総目録, but some copies (including those in Waseda, Hibiya (Kaga Bunko) and the present copy) have a middle volume sub-titled 古今名物茶入茶碗之圖. Later editions followed in Enkyō 3 (1746) and Bunka 14 (1817). Contents: An illustrated work with short descriptive text on paintings, room ornaments, gardens and adjuncts to the tea ceremony.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired at Glendining's sale, London, 22 March 1956.

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 17. Fine arts 芸術 a. General 一般