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Title

Seiyō senpaku zukai

Other related names

• Motoki, Shōei, 1767-1822, translator

Call number

LJS 454
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6016920
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6016920

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Japanese

Origin

Date

after 1808

Place

Nagasaki, Japan

Summary

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.

Notes

• Ms. roll.
   
• Title from outer label. Translated as "An illustrated guide to Western ships."
   
• Caption title from first preface.
   
• Roll has additional textual content after final image with title "Suisengun kontairyaku kibun."
   

Extent

1 roll (34 sheets) : 37 x 894 cm

Support

Paper

Layout

Written in vertical columns of characters perpendicular to the length of the scroll.

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.

Script

Written in Japanese script.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Diagrams
• Scrolls (information artifacts)
• Manuscripts, Japanese--18th century
• Manuscripts, Japanese--19th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

Licenses

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Decorations

• Closed scroll — Scroll label, Closed scroll
• Opening 13 — Full ship diagram, Opening 13
• Opening 14 — Partial ship diagram, Opening 14
• Opening 15 — Full ship diagram, Opening 15
• Opening 16 — Partial ship diagram, Opening 16
• Opening 17 — Cross-section diagram, Opening 17
• Opening 18 — Small partial diagrams, Opening 18
• Opening 19 — Small partial diagrams, Opening 19
• Opening 20 — Small partial diagrams, Opening 20
• Opening 21 — Navigational instruments, Opening 21
• Opening 23 — Full ship diagram, Opening 23
• Opening 24 — Full ship diagram, Opening 24
• Closed scroll — Scroll label, Closed scroll