Case - Vagina

Japanese: 帙 - ちつ
Case - Vagina

A cover used to protect books. It is also called a book case or a book set. In works such as "The Tale of Genji," it is called a "chisu" (or "jisu"). It was first made to wrap scrolls, and in ancient China, cases were made from silk or linen (such as in "Book of the Later Han"). Cases from the Nara and Heian periods in Japan were ornate, with thin bamboo as a core, patterns woven from silk thread, bordered all around with brocade, and lined with white silk or scarlet twill. Shosoin has preserved cases from the Tenpyo period, such as the "Saishōōkyō no Chitsu." When the scroll book evolved into the booklet book, the case shape became a foldable type with a thick cardboard core and covered with cloth, but there are also wooden cases (or "kyoban") in which the book is sandwiched between two boards slightly larger than the book and tied together with string.

[Kazumasa Kaneko]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

書物を保護するために包む覆い。書帙(しょちつ)、書套(しょとう)ともいう。『源氏物語』などには「帙簀(ちす)」(または「ぢす」)とある。巻子本(かんすぼん)を巻き包むためにつくられたのが初めで、中国では、古くは絹や麻布で帙をつくった(『後漢書(ごかんじょ)』など)。わが国の奈良・平安時代の帙は、細い竹を芯(しん)にして、絹糸で模様を編み出し、錦(にしき)で四周を縁どり、裏には白絹や緋綾(ひあや)を張るなど華麗である。正倉院には「最勝王経帙(さいしょうおうきょうのちつ)」など、天平(てんぴょう)時代のものが伝存している。巻子本から発展して冊子本(さっしぼん)が現れてからは、帙の形は厚紙を芯として、布張りした折り畳み式になったが、このほか、書物よりやや大きい板二枚の間に書物を挟み、紐(ひも)で結ぶ板帙(いたちつ)(または「夾板(きょうばん)」)もある。

[金子和正]

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