Shigi no hanekaki 鴫羽搔

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16100.c.21
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1691
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 3 volumes Condition: Good, but with some worm damage (repaired) and soiled folios. Impression: Atozuri from moderately worn blocks. Illustrations: A total of 86 sumizuri illustrations, occupying the lower half of the page: 15 in maki 上, of which 12 are portraits of poets, 32 in maki 中, and 34 in maki 下. Most of them illustrate scenes from the poems. Seals of ownership: Two square red seals (unidentified) on first page of maki 上 and last page of maki 下.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Yoshida Saburōbē, Genroku 4, 1691. Kanki on fol. 108b (maki 下) reads: 元禄四年辛未正月吉辰 ／ 書肆 吉田三郎兵衛. Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu, in a box. (Maki 上) ff. 1-31, 32 / 40, 41; (maki 中) ff. 42-78; (maki 下) ff. 79-108. 21.6 x 14.6 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 16.8 x 12.3 cm. (average). Single-line borders. Horizontal rule separating text from illustration in most cases. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text. 10 lines to page, except in poems above illustrations; variable no. of characters to line. Faded dark blue covers, probably renewed, with renewed title slips and manuscript gedai: 鴫羽搔. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Hashiragaki: Shiki しき + folio no. Edition: A late impression from the first edition. Kanki of earlier impressions contain the publisher's name Itō Heihachi 伊藤平八 as well as Yoshida Saburōbē but all were printed from the same blocks. A further edition followed in Tenmei 1 (1781). Contents: An anthology of waka poems on numerical themes, e.g. the four seasons, eight landscape views, etc.

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 7. Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 b. Waka 和歌

Bibliography

Kokusho kaidai 国書解題, p. 875; Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , p. 83.