Kuroda kafu
Contributors: Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
Place of publication: Japan
Language: jpn
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: History
Notes: Ms.

Caption title.

Author ascribed to Kaibara Ekiken. Cf. Kokusho sōmokuroku.

Shahon (hand-written copy), the copier and the date of this copy not known.

The work covers chiefly Civil War period, including Kuroda Takamasa, Shigetaka, Mototaka, Yoshitaka, and Nagamasa.

On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji).

LC set extensively wormed, with loss of text.

Includes bibliographical references (at end of v. 15).

Kokusho sōmokuroku, v. 2, p. 699.

"Kintei Suwinguru Hakushi, 1926-nen 10-gatsu, Fukuoka Tanaka Chōzaburō" and "Gift, Dr. Walter T. Swingle, Oct. 26, 1928"--Vol. 1, p. [2] of cover (mikaeshi).

Postscript of Tanaka Chōzaburo dated Meiji 28 [1895] inserted in v. 1; stating that he bought this set from a Fukuoka bookseller, presented to Dr. Swingle who donated it to LC, where Dr. Kuroda, direct descendant of Lords Kuroda, found it and claimed this as a lost treasure from his family library.

LC set has a seal "Asayama Gyōko[?], [not identified; could be the copier]" stamped.