Ireland, WH - Ireland

Japanese: アイルランド,W.H. - あいるらんど
Ireland, WH - Ireland

…To give it authority, the origin and history of the book are also fabricated. (1) refers to the forgery seen in art in general. Famous examples include the Englishman W. H. Ireland (1777-1835), who created many fake documents claiming to be Shakespeare's, and T. J. Wise (1859-1937), who abused his reputation as a bibliographer to sell fake editions he created at high prices. In Japan, forgery of the originals of Ono no Michikaze, Matsuo Basho, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Motoori Norinaga, and others has been practiced for a long time. In the Meiji period, Tokutomi Soho and others have written about a man named Nishimura Kanefumi, who used old wood type and old paper to forge many old books and was said to be a genius of forgery. …

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Japanese:

…それに権威を付与する必要から,その書物にまつわる由来,歴史などをも同時に捏造する。 (1)は美術品一般に見られる〈偽造forgery〉のことで,シェークスピアの真筆と称し多数の偽文書を作成したイギリス人アイルランドW.H.Ireland(1777‐1835)や,書誌学者としての名声を悪用しみずから作成した偽版を高価に販売したワイズT.J.Wise(1859‐1937)らが有名。日本でも小野道風,松尾芭蕉,徳川家康,本居宣長などの真筆を偽造することが古くから行われ,明治期には古い木活字や古紙を使って多数の古書を偽造し,偽書の天才といわれた西村兼文なる人物がいたことを徳富蘇峰らが書き残している。…

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