Variant title: Shigure しぐれ. Variant title: Shigure no en しぐれのえん. Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [c. Shōhō / Keian 正保・慶安 period, 1644-52 ?] . No colophon. See under Edition below. Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu, in a chitsu case. (Maki 上) ff. 19; (中) ff. 29; (下) ff. 22. 25.6 x 18.1 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 19.7 x 15.6 cm. (average). No borders. No fishtail design or running title on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text with dakuten and kutōten, but no furigana. 10 lines to page, 19-21 characters to line. Original blackish-grey covers with embossed rhomboid design. Original printed title slips bearing gedai: あま屋とり (printed in different combinations of kana and kanji on the 3 daisen). Title from naidai at head of maki 上. Hashiragaki: Jō (chū, ge) 上 (中, 下) + folio no. only. Edition: Earliest editions of this work are believed to date from Shōhō / Keian (1644-52) and Manji 万治 (1658-61) periods. The first dated edition was published in Kanbun 11 (1671), with title Shigure no en しぐれのえん. The present copy, without kanki, may be a late impression, with title altered from Shigure to Amayadori, of the earliest edition (Shōhō / Keian). Contents: A tale of the Muromachi period (Muromachi jidai monogatari 室町時代物語), sometimes classed as an otogi-zōshi.
Amayadori 雨やとり
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 16107.h.8
- Dates of Creation
- [1644-1652]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 3 volumes Condition: Good on the whole, with only minor soiling and staining. Impression: Atozuri from worn blocks. Illustrations: 10 single-page sumizuri woodcuts: 3 in maki 上, 4 in maki 中, and 3 in maki 下. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal in a double frame, Ryokui shooku 綠漪書屋, on first and last pages of each maki. Also one further oblong red seal (not identified) on each final page.
Scope and Content
Access Information
Not Public Record(s)
Unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Acquired from Rinrōkaku, 2 April 1964.
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. 170; Muromachi jidai monogatari taisei 室町時代物語大成, vol. 6, pp. 341-83.