Hyakunin isshu zōsanshō 百人一首像讃抄

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16100.c.20
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1678
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 3 volumes Condition: Good. No worm damage, but corners soiled by thumbing. Impression: Similar to 16100.c.16 but possibly earlier. Illustrations: Double-page frontispiece on ff. 1b-2a. Two inset sumizuri woodcuts on every page, within double-line frames, accompanying each poem; one depicting the poet himself, the other a scene associated with the poem. 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: Oblong red seal, Kan [?] [?] 觀□□, on first page of each maki, and small circular seal, Ōba 大場, on last page of maki 上 and 下.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Hosokawa Fujitaka 細川藤孝, called Yūsai 幽齋, warrior and man of letters, 1534-1610. Text revised and supplemented by NAKANOIN Michikatsu 中院通勝, 1556-1610. Illustrator: HISHIKAWA Moronobu 菱川師宣,1618-94. Imprint: [Edo] , Urokogataya, Enpō 6, 1678. Kanki on fol. 60b reads: 延寶六年午正月吉辰日 ／ 大傳馬町參町目 ／ 鱗形屋新板. Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu, in a buckram box. 26.9 x 18.6 cm. Renewed covers of modern yellow-brown paper, with renewed title slips. Manuscript gedai: 百人一首像讃抄. Edition: First edition, followed by further dated editions in Tenna 3 (1683), Genroku 5 (1692) and Enkyō 3 (1746). Contents: Text of the waka anthology Hyakunin isshu 百人一首, with brief lives of the poets and commentary by Hosokawa Yūsai, revised and augmented by Nakanoin Michikatsu.

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

Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , pp. 102-4; Hyakunin isshu kochūshaku no kenkyū 百人一首古注釈の研究, pp. 341-2.