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ORB 30/211
- Record Id:
- 032-003953116
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003953116
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129491099.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- ORB 30/211
- Title:
- Henjō hokki shōryōshū 遍照發揮性靈集 [遍照発揮性霊集]
- Scope & Content:
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Alternative reading of title: Henjō hakki seireishū
Variant title: Shōryōshū 性靈集 [性霊集]
Author/compiler: Kūkai 空海, known as Kōbō Daishi 弘法大師, 774-835. Compiler and editor: Shinzei 眞濟, daisōjō 大僧正 of Shingon sect, 800-60.
Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keichō period, c. 1600-15] . No colophon.
Description: 10 kan, formerly in 3 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Satsu 1) maki 1-5; (satsu 2) maki 6-8; (satsu 3) maki 9-10. 27.1 x 20.2 cm. Fukurotoji.
Movable type. Printing frame 22.9-23.2 x 16.9 cm. Double-line borders all round. Vertical rules between columns. 'Flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin.
Kanbun text without kunten or reading marks. 9 lines to page, 28 characters to line.
Buff front cover, old but not original, of satsu 1 only, without title slip. Manuscript gedai in an early-Edo hand: Shōryōshū 性靈集自一至五. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Shōryōshū 性靈集 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: Undated movable type edition, assigned by Kokatsujiban no kenkyū to Keichō period. Preceded by two pre-Edo editions (Kōya-ban dated Shōka 2, 1258, and an undated Negoro-ban), and by a dated movable type edition of Keichō 19 (1614) published at Kyōto. There was also another undated kokatsuji edition (7 lines to page, 14 characters to line) of Keichō / Genna period, as well as a blockprint published at Kōyasan 高野山 in Kan'ei 3 寛永三年, 1626.
Contents: A collection of Chinese poems, letters, inscriptions, vows and memorials by Kūkai, compiled probably during his lifetime between 827 and 835, but put in order and issued by his disciple Shinzei 眞濟, 800-60.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003953116
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003953116
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1615
- Date Range:
- [1600-1615]
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Almost pristine. Negligible worm damage, neatly repaired.
Impression: From unworn type, sharp and clear.
Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Wagaku kōdansho 和學講談所, seal of the centre for wagaku studies set up by the bakufu at Edo in 1793.
- Former Internal References:
- 15324.b.6
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.
- 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 9. Shingon sect 真言宗
- Publications:
- Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 91, 312, 339, 573, 733, 770; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 3, p. 127; Ishii Sekisuiken bunko zenpon shomoku 石井積翠軒文庫善本書目, p. 158, pl. 319; Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 9, p. 369; Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 5, p. 412.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Satow, Ernest Mason, GCMG, 1843-1929