Seiyō senpaku zukai / Nagasaki Oranda yakushi Motoki Shōei kin'yaku.
西洋舩舶圖解 長崎和蘭譯司本木正榮謹譯.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU

Contributor:

Motoki, Shōei, 1767-1822, translator.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

本木正榮, 1767-1822, translator.

Standardized Title:

Gunkan zukai.

軍艦図解. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88136424

水戰軍今大畧紀聞.

Language:

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Astronomical instruments.

Merchant ships.

History.

Merchant ships--History.

Warships--History.

Warships.

Naval architecture--History.

Naval architecture.

Astronomical instruments--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

diagrams

scrolls (information artifacts)

Manuscripts, Japanese.

Manuscripts, Digital.

Penn 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.

Physical Description:

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

Production:

[Nagasaki, Japan], [after 1808]

Other Title:

Gunkan zukai kōrei

軍艦圖解考例

Language Note:

Japanese.

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."

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."

Local Notes:

Version with undated preface and rubricated diagrams of astrolabe and sundial in section 4 ("dai 4-gō").

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 122 (LJS 454).

Cited as:

Oversize UPenn LJS 454.

Contains:

Suisengun kontairyaku kibun.

水戰軍今大畧紀聞.

OCLC:

858634585

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page