著者

江上 綏

雑誌

美術研究 = The bijutsu kenkiu : the journal of art studies

巻号頁・発行日

no.251, pp.27-28, 1968-02-27

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The author discussed in Nos. 238 and 239 of this present journal the Japanese mediaeval book of landscape gardening Senzui narabini Yagyō no Zu Accompanied by Dōji Kudensho in relation to the history of gardens. When he presented this paper, only three manuscripts of this book were known to him, namely the text owned by Prof. Ōta, Shōjirō of the University of Tokyo, the text in the Mudoji Library of the Myōtokuin, Shiga, and the text in the Agriculture Library of the University of Kyoto. After that, another text in the library of Nihon University came to his attention. The present paper is a supplementary study of this book on which this additional text shed further light. It has become much easier to imagine the older form of the text through the acquisition of this new material of Nihon University which, along with the manuscript owned by Prof. Ōta, was perhaps transcribed in the early Edo Period. The newly found text is closer to the texts of Kyoto University and the Myōtokuin than to the one owned by Prof. Ōta. By minutely analyzing the differences between these four texts and another variant in the Sonkeikaku Lidrary of the Maeda Family, it became clear that the Nihon Univesity text is in the same genealogy as the texts of Kyoto University and the Myōtokuin. Nevertheless some portions of it are the same as Prof. Ōta's text, but differ from the other two. These portions are considered to retain the older form. But such portions are not many, indicating that the texts of Kyoto University and of the Myōtokuin, both of which were transcribed around 1740 and are versions very close to each other, keep the form of the earlier text rather well. The shapes of the rocks and trees drawn in the Nihon University manuscript are very close to those of the Kyoto University and Myōtokuin manuscripts. But they have one point in common with Prof. Ōmanuscript which the other two lack: the rocks are shaded in the manuscripts of Prof. Ōta and of Nihon University only. This may well be the way such features were depicted in the oldest text of this book.