Kagekiyo 景清

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16107.h.6
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1624-1644]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 2 volumes Condition: Fair to poor. No worm damage, but many folios are soiled and some have rubbed and damaged corners, and brown stains. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Illustrations: 9 single-page sumizuri woodcuts, 4 in maki 上 and 5 in maki 下. All illustrations have been hand-coloured in red, green and yellow, probably at a date long after the work was printed. Not a tanroku-bon in the strict sense. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Kan'ei period, 1624-44] . No colophon. See Edition below. Description: 2 kan, 2 satsu, in a chitsu case. (Maki 上) ff. 1-11, 13, 15-27, [1]; (maki 下) ff. 1-4, 6-19, 21-26. Incomplete copy. 24.6 x 16.9 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 20.5 x 15.5 cm. No borders, except round illustrations. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text with occasional furigana. 10 lines to page, 19 characters to line. Mid-brown covers, probably renewed, without title slips. No gedai. Naidai at head of maki 上 and 下: 景清. Hashiragaki: Kagekiyo jō (ge) 景清上 (下) + folio no. Edition: Undated seihan edition, at first sight difficult to distinguish from movable type. Although undated, this is clearly from an edition published in Kan'ei period (1624-44), probably earlier than Kan'ei 9 (1632). Contents: One work from the full set of 36 mai no hon (kōwaka bukyoku 幸若舞曲).

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Acquired from Rinrōkaku, 16 Sept. 1962.

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 8. Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 a. Kōwaka (Mai no hon) 幸若 (舞の本)

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 1, p. 606, vol. 2, p. 528; Sentaku kosho kaidai 選択古書解題, p. 124; Kōwaka bukyoku kō 幸若舞曲考, pp. 333-45; Kanrodō bunko kikōbon kōran 甘露堂文庫稀覯本攷覧, fol. 5; Ryūmon bunko zenpon shomoku 竜門文庫善本書目, p. 134.