Shinpen jinkōki 新編塵劫記

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.75.ff.20
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1669
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Excellent. A few stains but no worm damage. Impression: An early impression, showing few signs of block wear. Illustrations: Copious sumizuri diagrams: abacus (算盤) calculations and vignettes illustrating craftsmen at work using techniques of weighing, measuring, etc. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Yoshida Mitsuyoshi 吉田光由, 1598-1672. Imprint: [Edo] , Shōkai 松會, Kanbun 9, 1669. Kanki following batsubun (in kanbun with printed kundoku) on last page of maki 下 reads: 于時寛文九己酉歳仲春吉旦 ／ 松會開板. Description: 3 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 上) ff. 26; (中) ff. 23; (下) ff. 16. 26.3 x 18.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 22.7 x 16.6 cm. (average). Single-line borders all round. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text in gyōsho script, with few printed furigana. Variable number of lines to page, but generally 12-14. 26-30 characters to line. Original mid-brown front cover only, with renewed yellow title slip bearing manuscript gedai (late-Edo period) : 寛文古板塵劫記 完･･･ . Title from naidai at head of mokuroku of each maki. Hashiragaki: Shinpan jinkōki jō 新板塵劫キ 上 (chū 中, ge, 下) + folio no. A page headed 初製目付字 終 from maki 中, fol. 24, of another edition of Jinkōki has been pasted on mikaeshi in place of original endpaper. Edition: One of the very large number of expanded editions of this work published with such frequency during the 17th-19th centuries. Preface in Japanese headed 新板塵劫記序 precedes mokuroku of maki 上. Contents: A new augmented version of the most widely used work of practical mathematics of the early to mid-Edo period. 56 sections (jō 序) in all.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.

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 14. Physical sciences 自然科学 a. Mathematics 数学

Bibliography

Ogura bunko mokuroku 小倉文庫目録; see also no. 592 above.