Seiyō senpaku zukai; 西洋舩舶圖解

Alternate Title:

Gunkan zukai kōrei

Contributor:

Motoki, Shōei, 1767-1822 (translator)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1808

Description:

Scroll of diagrams and text concerning the construction and compartmentalization of European ships, referred to as battleships, all on the recto side. At the top of the scroll is a thin piece of wood and a tie that wraps around the scroll; a paper label in Japanese is on the verso of the beginning of the scroll. Sheets of a different kind of paper, of the same width but different length, are used for backing.

Language:

Japanese

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 1999.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs454.html

Subject:

Astronomical instruments; Merchant ships; History; Merchant ships -- History; Warships -- History; Warships; Naval architecture -- History; Naval architecture; Astronomical instruments -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); diagrams; scrolls (information artifacts); Manuscripts, Japanese

Physical Description:

1 roll (34 sheets) : paper; 37 x 894 cm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. roll.; Title from outer label. Translated as "An illustrated guide to Western ships."; Layout: Written in vertical columns of characters perpendicular to the length of the scroll.; Script: Written in Japanese script.; Decoration: 4 detailed full side diagrams of ships, 1 with a top pennant that unfolds above the upper edge of the scroll and 1 with a damaged foldout top pennant; 22 partial diagrams, including ship cross-sections and diagrams of astronomical and navigational equipment; many diagrams rubricated in red, some with syllables that are keyed to text describing the parts or areas of a ship.; Origin: Written in Nagasaki, circa 1800.; Caption title from first preface.; Roll has additional textual content after final image with title "Suisengun kontairyaku kibun."; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Japanese.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 454

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)