[Ezo]; [蝦夷]

Name:

Satō, Yukinobu, active 1781-1786; Matsudaira, Nobuakira, 1763-1817

Date:

1799

Description:

Works by various authors and artists describing and depicting the Japanese island of Ezo or Hokkaido. First work has postscript by author Tani Bunkei, preface dated Kansei 11 (1799). Second work has preface by author dated Kyōhō kōshi (1720). Third work has first preface by Matsudaira Nobuakira, second preface by Satō Genrokurō Yukinobu, dated Tenmei 6 (1786).

Language:

Japanese

Provenance:

Possibly formerly owned by "Shitōen" [i.e. Kuroda Suizan?] (upper cover, Volume 1).; Purchased in Kyoto by Charles Whiting Bishop, Assistant Curator of the Ethnological Section, for the University Museum, 1915.; Transferred to the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania, 2014.; Kuroda, Suizan, 1792-1859, former owner.; University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, former owner.

Subject:

Ainu

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); pen and wash drawings; watercolors (paintings); Manuscripts, Japanese

Physical Description:

8 volumes (27, 45, 36, 20, 17, 35, 24, 12 double leaves) : color illustrations; 264 x 185 mm

Geographic Subject:

Hokkaido (Japan) -- Description and travel

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; No collective title page. Titles from title pieces on covers (daisen).; Table of contents: 880-02 [1-6]. Ezo kikō -- [7]. Ezo shi -- [8]. Ezo shūi, Gen no maki 1. Chiri taigai.; Character "gai" in section title of third work a variant of Morohashi 15364, with tree radical underneath right-hand element instead of at left.; Worm damage in Volumes 2, 3, 6, and 7.; Title slips in English mounted on covers: An account of journey to the island of Ezo (Volume 1); An account of journey through the island of Ezo (Volume 2-3); Illustrations (Volume 4); Illustrations of the journey through the island of Ezo (Volume 5); Illustrations in the account of the journey through the island of Ezo (Volume 6); The history of Ezo and illustrations (Volume 7, detached, laid inside upper cover); Supplements to the history of Ezo (Volume 8).; Script: Each work written by a different hand; daisen of all volumes in one hand.; Decoration: Volume 2, 2 illustrations with black washes of roots (one labeled "the vegetable ikema" in pencil), and one each of blades, a statuary figure (labeled "god to quell rough wind), and people walking with large leaves for shelter; Volume 4, 26 single-page and 5 double-page color ink and watercolor illustrations of individuals engaged in various activities and more detailed bust-length portraits; Volume 5, 14 double-page and 1 triple-page ink and watercolor illustrations, mostly black washes, some with additional colors, including several coastal scenes; Volume 6, 61 single-page and 2 double-page ink and watercolor illustrations, including drawings of buildings, boats, fishing and other tools, fishing scenes, blades and scabbards, and a portrait; Volume 7, 16 single-page and 2 double-page ink drawings, including portraits, articles of clothing, blades and scabbards.; Binding: Original (19th-century) paper covers.; Origin: Written in Japan, possibly between 1799 (latest known date of composition, Volume 1) and 1859 (death date of possible former owner named on cover, Volume 1).; Japanese.; Related Work: Tani, Bunkei, 1778-1840. Ezo kikō.; Related Work: Arai, Hakuseki, 1657-1725. Ezo shi.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1712