Jisanka chū 自讃歌註

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16103.a.24
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1680-1690]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Fair to poor. Worm damage throughout, especially in upper margins, crudely repaired by urauchi patching. Impression: Atozuri, from heavily worn blocks. Illustrations: Sumizuri illustrations in the lower part of each page. Batsu on fol. 60b ends with the artist's signature: 武州江城之下久大和繪師 ／ 菱河吉兵衞師宣. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Waka chūsenshō 和歌註撰抄. Variant title: E-iri jisanka chū 繪入自讃歌註 [絵入自讃歌註]. Author/compiler: Sōgi 宗祇 (Iio Sōgi 飯尾宗祇), renga poet, 1421-1502. Illustrator: Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣,1618-94. Imprint: [Edo] , Suharaya Mohē, n.d. [Enpō-Genroku period, c. 1680-90] . Kanki on fol. 43b reads: 繪師菱河師宣筆 ／ 江府 書林･･･ 須原屋茂兵衛梓. Description: 3 kan, formerly in 3 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 上) ff. 1-18; (中) ff. 19-28; (下) ff. 29-43. (Many folios in maki 上 and 中 have been transposed in binding and are in the wrong order.) 26.8 x 18 cm. Fukurotoji. Original dark blue front cover of maki 上 only, with hand-painted designs of flowers and grasses in silver. Original title slip with printed gedai: 自讃歌註絵入. Title from gedai. No naidai. Edition: The first edition to contain illustrations. Preceded by a movable type edition in Kan'ei 10 (1633) and three blockprinted editions dated Kan'ei 13 (1636), Keian 1 (1648) and Kanbun 8 (1668). Copy in Ryerson Library is dated Enpō 8 (1680) and published by Shōkai 松會. Contents: Commentary by the poet Sōgi, written in Bunmei 16 文明十六年 (1484), on the poetical anthology Jisanka 自讃歌 which was composed of waka poems from various classical anthologies of the past.

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from James Tregaskis, bookseller, 16 April 1901.

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

Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , pp. 96-8.