Yakumoshō 八雲抄

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.75.ff.4
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1635
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Very good. A clean copy with only minor worm damage in maki 1 and 6. Impression: Shozuri. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Fukuda bunko 福田文庫 (seal of Fukuda Keien 福田敬園), on first and last pages of each maki. Oblong red seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, on first page of maki 2-6. Manuscript notes: Brief shikigo signed by Chin'uken 枕雨軒 (?), dated Meiji 1, 1868, on last folio beside the mokki quoted above.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Yakumomishō 八雲御抄. Author/compiler: Juntoku 順德, Emperor, 1197-1242 (reigned 1210-21). Imprint: [Kyōto] , Nakano Dōya 中野道也 [=Nakano Kozaemon 中野小左衞門] , Kan'ei 12, 1635. Mokki on last folio (unnumbered) of maki 6 reads: 寛永乙亥 [ = 十二年] 夏五吉旦 ／ 中野氏道也刊行. Description: 6 kan, formerly in 7 satsu (maki 3 is divided into 上 and 下), now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 1) ff. 45; (2) ff. 40; (3 上) ff. 42; (3 下) ff. 49; (4) ff. 38; (5) ff. 43; (6) ff. 33, [1] . 27.9 x 18.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 21-21.5 x 16.5 cm. No borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text in gyōsho script, without furigana. 11 lines to page, 20-24 characters to line. Original mid-blue front cover of satsu 1 only, embossed with a rhomboid design. Traces of original printed title slip remain, but whole of gedai is missing. Naidai at head of each maki: Yakumoshō 八雲抄. Hashiragaki: Yakumoshō 八雲抄 + maki no. + folio no. In a modern western style half-leather binding. Edition: The second blockprinted edition, following (1) an undated movable type edition, probably published in late-Genna or Kan'ei 1, 1624, and (2) the first blockprinted edition published in Kan'ei 2, 1625. A preface in kanbun (1 folio) precedes the mokuroku of maki 1 in this edition. Contents: A treatise on waka poetry, dealing with poetic style, rhetorical devices, subject matter and vocabulary. The first systematic study of the history and technique of waka up to the end of Heian period. Completed by Emperor Juntoku in exile on the island of Sado.

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

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 6, p. 52; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 550.