[Ryōri monogatari] [料理物語]

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 16027.d.28
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1647-1649]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Poor. Ff. 1-4a and 48-53 missing. Leaves stained and soiled, and worm damage on corners. Impression: Blocks slightly worn. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [possibly Shōhō 4, 1647, or Keian 2, 1649] . See under Edition below. Colophon missing. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a box. Incomplete copy: ff. 4b-47 only (of 53). 20.1 x 14 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 18.1 x 13.1 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No rules bordering hanshin. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with dakuten but few furigana. 12 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line. Original dark brown covers, with vestiges of old title slip. Gedai missing. No naidai among surviving folios. Hashiragaki: Ryōri 料理 + folio no. Edition: Difficult to establish edition in the absence of kanki or other form of colophon. The first edition, published in Kan'ei 20 寛永二十年 (1643), appears to be of larger size than the present copy. Nor does it belong to the Kanbun 4 寛文四年 (1664) edition, which has 37 folios only. It is presumed, therefore, to be of the Shōhō 4 正保四年 (1647) or Keian 2 慶安二年 (1649) edition. Contents: A manual of cookery, one of the earliest known in Japan, divided into 20 sections dealing with the preparation and cooking of sea fish, seaweed and other plants, freshwater fish, poultry, etc.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Acquired from Japan Publications Trading Co., 5 Dec. 1969.

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 18. Amateur arts 諸芸 b. Cookery 料理

Bibliography

Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 3, p. 249; Daitōkyū kinen bunko zenpon sōkan, kinsei hen 大東急記念文庫善本叢刊・近世篇, vol. 10; Kōbunsō taika koshomoku 弘文荘待賈古書目, no. 36, p. 62.