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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 12:43:18 GMT -5
Here's an interesting thing; somebody (who wishes to remain anonymous even from me) gave me a lovely gift. It's an old book, that appears to be a woodworking manual, printed in Japanese and bound in the traditional Japanese way. I recognize a lot of the pictures, but I don't know what any of the words say. Help, please? Click through on the image to see all the pages. I can tell that the first two pages are a table of contents, since the text there matches the headings on the rest of the pages. |
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Post by Please Delete on Aug 25, 2016 21:53:53 GMT -5
Here's my attempt: This may help: japanese-tea-ceremony.net/equipment.html小坪䂓矩 こつぼかね Kotsubogane (Small pot carpenter's square/model?) 4th Scroll Catalogue - Kofuro (Small bath?) - Kyosoku (Elbow rest) - Kyokuroku (Chair) - Ikou (Clothes rack) - Kendai (reading stand) - Hitsukou [Hikkou?] (Arrow rack?) - Kokouita (small high board?) - Shougi (folding stool) - Kanekake (mirror stand) - Tsukue (desk) - Fumibako (writing box) - Suzuribako (inkstone box) - Tanzakubako (paper box--for rectangular "tanzaku" [poem card] paper) - Daisu (Utensil stand/rack) - Taikodai (Drum stand) - Shougiban (Shogi board) - Goban (Go board) - Sugorokuban (Backgammon board) - Tsuru no ita (crane board) - Bundai (writing table) - Kyoudai (mirror stand) [Tachikyoudai in the text] - Kanetsukebako (tooth blackening box) - Tachikyoudai (standing mirror stand) [Kagamitachi in the text] - Kutsukake (shoe stand) - Kutsubako (shoe box) - Makushi (horse comb) - Tsumegiriita (nail file [hoof file?] board) and Tsumegiritsuchi (nail file [hoof file] mallet) [Looks like tihs may be horse paraphanalia] - Harihisaku [? Something to do with acupuncture needles?] - Maken [Horse + ? - Ken often refers to the rectangular shape, and it looks like this one is 7 feet long or so] - Mafuna [Horse + ? - a trough, maybe? I'm not clear on the kanji] The last ones in particular gave me trouble. A lot of the kanji are older variants, not the standard ones that we see today. |
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Post by Please Delete on Aug 26, 2016 11:12:21 GMT -5
On the tsume-giri board and mallet:  So that would be better translated as "hoof-trimming board and mallet" |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2016 7:42:13 GMT -5
Awesome, thank you! Web searches based on that title and its romaji have already turned up some valuable material. I found several more copies in libraries and museum collections, where it is dated to Edo period, possibly as early as 1617 CE! There's also this site - www.abekou.co.jp/kosho.html which machine translation indicates is a collection of old books that were found in the warehouse of a construction company. They have this volume, another in the same series, and a bunch of others; though their photos are not detailed enough. |
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Post by solveig on Oct 22, 2016 22:29:16 GMT -5
Daisu were (and still are) used for the tea ceremony. A variety of tea implements are arranged on them and used during relatively elaborate versions of the tea ceremony. Use of the daisu is taught as part of "okuden" (inner transmission) which is one of the stages of learning in the Urasenke tea tradition. Daisu feature prominently in『南方録』"Nanpōroku" a work of seven volumes which claims to be a record of the tea of Rikyū. The provenance of this work is disputed. Also, Rikyū is generally believed to have railed against the use of "daisu". Here is a picture of a daisu with a collection of bronze tea equipment used in one of these overly pretentious versions of the tea ceremony.  Some (but not all) of the implements are in the positions where they would actually be used. I believe that modern versions of daisu are constructed in such a way that they can be disassembled and stored away for later reassembly. I should have purchased one in Japan. I have a pair of 長板 naga-ita which are in roughly the same category of use as the daisu. |
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