Variant title: Sannin-bōshi 三人ぼうし. Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [c. Kanbun period, 1661-73 ?] . No colophon. Description: 2 kan, 2 satsu, in a chitsu case. (Maki 上) ff. 12 (numbering begins with fol. 2); (maki 下) ff. 11 (as above). 26.9 x 18.7 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 22.2 x 17.2 cm. (average). Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with printed dakuten and kutōten. 16 lines to page, 26-28 characters to line. Original yellow covers decorated with a printed diagonal maze pattern with coiled dragons. Original printed title slips on left bearing gedai: E-iri (tsunogaki) sannin hōshi 繪入 (角書) 三人ほうし. Naidai at head of each maki: Sannin-bōshi 三人ぼうし. Hashiragaki: 三人ほうし 上 (下) + folio no. Edition: An undated edition, without publisher's name, believed to date from Kanbun 寛文 period. (A copy in Seikadō Bunko, also ascribed to Kanbun period, was published by Yamamoto Kyūzaemon 山本九左衞門). Earlier editions were published in Kan'ei period (1624-44), one of them modelled on a movable type edition, the other a tanroku-bon; and in Shōhō 3 (1646), Meireki 4 (1658) and Manji 2 (1659). Among all these editions, beginning with the tanroku-bon, the text hardly differs. Contents: A tale of the Muromachi period (Muromachi jidai monogatari 室町時代物語), formerly classed as otogi-zōshi.
Sannin hōshi 三人ほうし
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- Reference
- GB 59 16107.h.17
- Dates of Creation
- [1661-1673]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Good. Some folios slightly soiled at lower corners, but otherwise a clean copy. Impression: Slightly atozuri, but not markedly so. Illustrations: A total of 4 double-page sumizuri illustrations, 2 in maki 上 and 2 in maki 下. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal in a double frame, Fukuda bunko 福田文庫 (seal of Fukuda Keien 福田敬園) on first page of maki 上 and 下. Manuscript notes: Note in black ink dated Bunkyū 2 (1862) on mikaeshi of maki 上 reads as follows: 文久二戌年十月廿八日收得之 ／ 小本にも有之カツシ本にも有之事 ／ 但三人物語とは別也 ／ 桃柳舎 ／ 主人.
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Acquisition Information
Acquired from Isseidō, 26 Feb. 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 5.Literature - fiction 国文-小説 e.Muromachi jidai monogatari 室町時代物語
Bibliography
Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 134; Nihon bungaku shoshi 日本文学書誌, p. 695; Nihon bungaku shoshi 日本文学書誌K, vol. 4, p. 60; Muromachi jidai monogatari taisei 室町時代物語大成, vol. 6, pp. 211-35.