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ORB 30/142
- Record Id:
- 032-003948694
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003948694
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124928644.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- ORB 30/142
- Title:
- Hasshū kōyō 八宗綱要
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Hasshū kōyō shō 八宗綱要抄
Author/compiler: Gyōnen 凝然, Kegon priest, also known as Gyōnen Daitoku 凝然大德, 1240-1321.
Imprint: N.p., Jōō 2 1653. Kanki reads: 承慶二稔季春吉旦 ／ 開板. Preceded by an earlier batsubun, dated Genki 2 元亀二年 (1571), containing a note on this work and its compiler, Gyōnen.
Description: 2 kan, formerly in 1 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (上) ff. 24; (下) ff. 31. 25.9 x 18 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 21.2 x 15.2 cm. Double-line borders, with 'flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin.
Kanbun text with printed okurigana (katakana) and kaeriten. 10 lines to page, 20 characters to line.
Original yellow covers with printed title slip. Gedai: 八宗綱要. Naidai: Hasshū kōyō shō 八宗綱要抄. Hashiragaki: Kōyō jō (ge) 綱要 上 (下) + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: The earliest printed edition. Followed by revised editions in Bunsei 10 and 11, 1827-28.
Contents: A brief summary of the transmission of Buddhism from India to China and Japan, and of the history and doctrines of the eight sects (hasshū) of Japanese Buddhism. Written by Gyōnen in or about Bun'ei 文永五年, 1268.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003948694
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003948694
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1653
- End Date:
- 1653
- Date Range:
- 1653
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Excellent.
Impression: Atozuri. (From a separately-printed list of publications offered by the two publishers Nagata Chōbē 永田調兵衞 (Bunshōdō) and Hishiya Matabē 菱屋亦兵衞 (Bunrindō), appended at end of book, it is apparent that this impression may be dated anywhere between c. 1780 and 1850, probably c. 1830-40.) For another copy with publisher's name given in kanki, see no. 103 below.
Seals of ownership: Red oblong seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, on first page.
- Custodial History:
- Formerly owned by Thomas Watters (1840-1901), Sinologist and member of the British Consular Service in China and Korea.
- Former Internal References:
- 15101.g.19
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased by the British Museum from Rev. Andrew Patton, Ballymena 7 April 1906.
- Finding Aids:
- Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). B. Buddhist works 仏書 1. General works 一般
- Publications:
- Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 9, p. 33; Butten kaidai daijiten 仏典解題事典, p. 290.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)