Title piece

Japanese: 題簽 - だいせん（英語表記）title piece

Pronounced "daisen," it is a small piece of paper pasted on the cover of a Japanese or Chinese book that indicates the title and volume number. There are two types of title labels for Japanese publications: rectangular and square; the former are generally pasted on the upper left side of the cover, while square title labels are pasted on the upper center of the cover. Sometimes both are pasted on the cover at the same time. If the characters on the title label are handwritten, it is called a written title label, while if the characters are printed, it is called a printed title label. In the case of printed title labels, there are those with only the characters printed and those with a frame around the characters, and in the yomihon and kusazoshi books from the late Edo period, pictures are sometimes added to the title label. These are called illustrated title labels.

Source: Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 4th Edition Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 5th Edition About Information

Japanese:

「だいせん」と読む．和漢書の表紙に貼られる小紙片で，書名や巻数などが示される．日本の刊本の題簽には短冊型と方型のものがあり，前者は一般に表紙左側上方に貼ることが多いが，方型の題簽は表紙中央上部に貼る．両者を同時に表紙に貼ることもある．題簽の文字が手書きの場合は書き題簽というのに対して，文字が印刷されている場合は印刷題簽である．印刷題簽の場合，文字だけを印刷するものと，文字の外周に枠を持つもの，さらに，江戸時代後期の読本や草双紙などでは，題簽に絵を加えることもある．これを絵題簽という．

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