Home > Book History > Early Printed Books >

Japanese Books in the British Library printed before 1700

  

Order Background Specifications



Part I: Japanese Literature:
237 works (KGDC 265-501) on 1,245 fiches plus 326 supplementary fiches (hereafter abbreviated as [S]).

The Units are organized as follows:

Unit 1
KANBUN: 29 + 2 [S] fiches
5 titles (KGDC 265-269)

Unit 2
FICTION I: 48 titles: 336 + 69 [S] fiches
Early monogatari: 37 titles (KGDC 270-306)
Setsuwa bungaku: 8 titles (KGDC 307-314)
Rekishi monogatari: 3 titles (KGDC 315-317)

Unit 3
FICTION II: 100 titles: 547 + 154 [S] fiches
Gunki monogatari: 27 titles (KGDC 318-344)
Muromachi jidai monogatari: 20 titles (KGDC 345-364)
Kana-zoshi: 38 titles (KGDC 365-402)
Ukiyo-zoshi: 15 titles (KGDC 403-417)

Unit 4
PROSE: 19 titles: 72 + 28 [S] fiches
Diaries: 4 titles (KGDC 418-421)
Zuihitsu: 14 titles (KGDC 422-435)
Letter writing: 1 title (KGDC 436)

Unit 5
POETRY: 41 titles: 191 + 67 [S] fiches
Man'yoshu: 3 titles (KGDC 437-439)
Waka: 31 titles (KGDC 440-470)
Renga: 5 titles (KGDC 471-475)
Haikai: 1 title (KGDC 476)
Kyoka: 1 title (KGDC 477)

Unit 6
DRAMA: 24 titles: 70 + 6 [S] fiches
Kowaka: 5 titles (KGDC 478-482)
No: 8 titles (KGDC 483-490)
Kyogen: 3 titles (KGDC 491-493)
Joruri: 7 titles (KGDC 494-500)
Kabuki: 1 title (KGDC 501)

Part II: Chinese Works :
97 works (KGDC 1-97) on 948 fiches (plus 13 supplementary fiches)

The Units are organized as follows:

Unit 1
ENCYCLOPEDIAS: 165 fiches
5 titles (KGDC 1-5)

Unit 2
CHINESE CLASSICS: 93 fiches
19 titles: (KGDC 6-24)

Unit 3
PHILOSOPHY, including Confucianism & Taoism: 86 fiches
12 titles (KGDC 25-36)

Unit 4
HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY: 147 fiches
14 titles (KGDC 37-50)

Unit 5
LANGUAGE, including dictionaries: 77 fiches
6 titles (KGDC 51-56)

Unit 6
LAW, GOVERNMENT, ADMINISTRATION & economics: 65 fiches
5 titles (KGDC 57-61)

Unit 7
CHINESE LITERATURE: 208 fiches
23 titles (KGDC 62-84)

Unit 8
MEDICINE, AGRICULTURE, FINE AND AMATEUR ARTS & MILITARY SCIENCE: 107 fiches
13 titles (KGDC 85Ð97)

Each Unit is accompanied by a catalogue in Japanese which contains the following information:
  • Running number and title of the work in KGDC;
  • Microfiche numbers;
  • Subject classification in KGDC;
  • British Library shelfmark;
  • Author, editor or compiler, if known;
  • Book format;
  • Number of chapters and volumes;
  • Remarks, if any;
  • Place and date of edition, publisher;
  • Reference to supplementary [S] fiches, if any;
  • An index listing on which frame each chapter of the work begins.


    • Each Unit catalogue also contains a fiche index of the complete publication.