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ORB 30/144
- Record Id:
- 032-003948699
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003948699
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124928651.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- ORB 30/144
- Title:
- Shaekoku Gionji zukyō 舎衞國祇洹寺圖經 [舎衛国祇洹寺図経]
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Chūtenjiku shaekoku Gionji zukyō 中天竺舎衞國祇洹寺圖經 [中天竺舎衛国祇洹寺図経]
Author/compiler: Daoxuan 道宣, 596-667.
Imprint: Kyōto, Ogawa Tazaemon, n.d. (Preface dated Tenna 1, 1681.) Okuzuke reads: 京師書房 ／ 六角通寺町西江入町 ／ 柳枝軒小川多左衞門刻.
Description: 2 kan, 1 satsu. (Maki 上) ff. 4 (preface), 34; (maki 下) ff. 37. 26.2 x 18.7 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 22-22.5 x 15.5 cm. Single-line borders with lower part of hanshin printed black.
Kanbun text with printed okurigana and kaeriten. 8 lines to page, 18 characters to line.
Original mid-blue covers, within a western style cloth binding. Original title slip on left, with printed gedai: 舎衞國祇洹寺圖經上下. Naidai: Chūtenjiku shaekoku Gionji zukyō 中天竺舎衞國祇洹寺圖經. Hashiragaki: Gion zukyō jō (ge) 祇洹圖經上 (下) + folio no.
Edition: The only edition issued in Edo period, dated Tenna 1 天和元年 (1681) in preface and batsu (maki 下, fol. 36a).
Contents: A work purporting to describe the origins, history and layout of buildings in the Jetavana-vihāra monastery (Gion shōja 祇園精舎), reputedly the first monastic establishment in India.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003948699
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003948699
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1681
- End Date:
- 1681
- Date Range:
- 1681
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Negligible worm damage, otherwise very good.
Impression: Slightly atozuri. The style of the undated kanki suggests an impression of early 18th century. (Ogawa Tazaemon was active from Tenna to end of Edo period.)
Seals of ownership: Red oblong seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, on first page of maki 上.
- 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.28
- 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. 4, p. 369, vol. 8, p. 34; TT, vol. 45, no. 1899.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)