Hōsa Bunko

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The Hōsa Bunko
Nagoya Castle main tower

The Hōsa Bunko ( Japanese 蓬 左 文庫 ) preserves the library legacy of the Owari Tokugawa clan from Nagoya , whose head was one of the most powerful daimyo in the Edo period as a family of the Gosanke . The Hōsa Bunko is located right next to the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya and is connected to it. In contrast to the museum, the bunko is subordinate to the city of Nagoya.

Preliminary remark

Hōsa was an old name for the city of Nagoya in the Edo period, it was derived from the location "to the left of the Atsuta shrine ". The Atsuta Shrine was said to embody the legendary island of Hōrai ( 蓬莱 ). The name for the bunko came into use around 1912.

The collection

The basis of the collection was the inheritance that the founder of the Owari-Tokugawa, Tokugawa Yoshinao (1601-1651), had received from the Tokugawa Ieyasu library . That was 3,000 volumes, including valuable books from Kanazawa Bunko that had come to Ieyasu. Under Yoshinao, the collection has already been expanded by 19,000 volumes. At the end of the Edo period, the inventory was approximately 50,000 volumes.

Today's inventory includes Japanese, Chinese and Korean classics since the 13th century. There is also a large inventory of Nagoya city maps, Japan maps and world maps as well as maps of residences and gardens from the 17th to 18th centuries. The Bunko also received bequests and donations from the Meiji and Shōwa periods , around 110,000 pieces.

The Hōsa Bunko was opened as a foundation in 1935, at the same time as the Tokugawa Art Museum in Mejiro , Tokyo. In 1950 the Bunko was given to the city of Nagoya and moved to a building next to the Nagoya Art Museum. In 2004 the bunko was connected to the art museum via a connecting corridor, so that both facilities can be visited comfortably together.

Important cultural assets in the collection

  • Shoku Nihongi ( 続 日本 紀 ) 30 rolls, from the Kanazawa Bunko
  • Genji-Monogatari ( 源氏物語 , ( 河内 本 , Kawachibon )) 23 volumes, 1258
  • Code of Conduct at the Imperial Court ( 侍中 群 要 ) 10 rolls 1306, from the Kanazawa Bunko
  • Chinese Agriculture Textbook ( 斉 民 要 術 ) 22 rolls 1274, from the Kanazawa Bunko
  • Explanations of the conversations of Confucius (論語 集解), 10 volumes, copy from 1320.
  • Medical textbook ( 太平 聖 恵 方 ) 24 volumes, song time , from the Kanazawa Bunko
  • History of Goryeo ( 朝鮮 版 高麗 史 節 要 (銅 活字 本) ), printed with copper letters , 35 volumes, 1453

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recorded by Okumura Katsuyoshi (1793–1863).

literature

  • Hosa-bunko (Ed.): Rekishi to zosho. 2004. 58 pp.

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Coordinates: 35 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 136 ° 55 ′ 57 ″  E