Nozuchi 野槌

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16095.e.1
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1648-1652]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Fair to good. Minor worm damage (unrepaired) in places, and a few stained folios. Impression: Atozuri from moderately worn blocks for the most part, but some folios are sharper and clearer. Seals of ownership: None. Manuscript notes: Textual headnotes in red, believed to date from mid-Edo period, scattered throughout the work.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Tsurezuregusa nozuchi 徒然草野槌. Author/compiler: Hayashi Razan 林羅山, also known as Dōshun 道春, 1583-1657. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keian 慶安 period, 1648-52] . No colophon. No date in preface. Description: 14 kan, formerly in 13 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. The 14 kan are divided into two sections, 上 and 下, the former containing 8 kan and the latter 6 kan. (上部, maki 1) ff. 1 (自序), 49; (上, 2) ff. 51; (上, 3) ff. 43; (上, 4) ff. 37; (上, 5) ff. 42; (上, 6) ff. 41; (上, 7) ff. 45; (上, 8) ff. 49; (下部, 1) ff. 39; (下, 2) ff. 38; (下, 3) ff. 47; (下, 4) ff. 38; (下, 5) ff. 35; (下, 6) ff. 33, [1] (batsu 跋). 26.9 x 19.2 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 20.5 x 17 cm. (average). No borders. No vertical rules between text and hanshin. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana (katakana), and with some passages in kanbun interspersed. 10 lines to page, variable no. of characters to line. Original mid-blue front cover of maki 1 only, retaining upper part of original printed title slip. Gedai: 野槌. No naidai. Hashiragaki: Nozuchi 埜槌上 (下) + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: The earliest edition recorded. Contents: A commentary by Hayashi Razan on Yoshida Kenkō's Tsurezuregusa 徒然草, completed in Genna 7 (1621), accompanied by the original text. First preface and batsu signed by the compiler.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by purchase, 12 Oct. 1876.

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 6.Literature - prose 国文-散文 b.Zuihitsu 随筆

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 4, p. 681.