Keian Taiheiki; 慶安太平記

Timespan:

To 1868; Tokugawa period, 1600-1868; 1600-1868

Date:

1790

Description:

Items are manuscripts, copiously illustrated and, vast majority are, hand-painted. Content centers around a revolt attempt against the shogunate. From the title, Keian refers to the period, 1648-1652. Items are bound in the style of fukorotoji (pouch binding).

Language:

Japanese

Provenance:

Tress, Arthur (donor) (Tress Collection copy)

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Feudalism -- Japan -- Pictorial works; Shoguns -- Pictorial works

Resource Type:

Text; Still Image

Form/Genre:

fukuro-toji; woodcuts (prints); books

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations, 27 cm

Geographic Subject:

Japan -- History, Military -- To 1868 -- Pictorial works; Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 -- Pictorial works; Japan -- Civilization -- 1600-1868 -- Pictorial works

Related Place:

Japan.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Partial title.; Unknown how many volumes were produced. Information supplied are from volumes 1, 3, and 4.; Tress 1217: Kislak Center Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018. Formerly housed as Box 37, item 3.; Tress Collection holds volumes 1, 3, and 4.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Arthur Tress Collection, Tress 1217

Collection:

Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books (University of Pennsylvania)