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16006.e.4
- Record Id:
- 032-003953123
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003953123
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129491108.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16006.e.4
- Title:
- Kongōkai sanjūshichison shuji 金剛界三十七尊種子
- Scope & Content:
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Variant title: Shujishū 種子集
Author/compiler: Chōzen 澄禪, Shingon monk, later abbot of the Jizōin 地藏院 in Higo province, d. 1680.
Imprint: N.p., Tenna 2, 1682. Kanki on last page of maki 2 reads: 天和貳年壬戌孟春吉日□兵衛開板.
Description: 2 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (Maki 1-本) ff. 2, 60; (maki 2-末) ff. 36. 27 x 18.4 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 20.2-21.2 x 15.4 cm. Single-line borders all round. Fishtail design on hanshin.
Large, bold siddham script, with names of deities indicated in kanji and pronunciation in katakana. 1-4 siddham characters to page.
Original dull grey-buff front cover of maki 1 only, with original printed title slip (upper part missing). Gedai: □ [=種?] 子集. Title from naidai at head of mokuroku. Hashiragaki: (maki 1) Hon 本; (maki 2) Matsu 末 + folio no. In a western style half-leather binding.
Edition: First published in Kanbun 10 (1670). This edition of Tenna 2 (1682) may be an unaltered reprint from the same blocks. No edition of 1682 is recorded.
Contents: A Shingon work consisting of finely drawn siddham characters representing the names of Buddhas, bodhisattvas and lesser deities from the Buddhist pantheon. The compiler, Chōzen, was a noted calligrapher in the siddham script. His name appears on fol. 36b of maki 2, followed by his printed kaō.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003953123
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003953123
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1682
- End Date:
- 1682
- Date Range:
- 1682
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Very good. Clean copy, free from worm damage.
Impression: Blocks show some signs of wear, especially in printing of kanji.
Seals of ownership: Oval red seal (unidentified) on last page of maki 1 and 2.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from I. Summers, bookseller 5 August 1861.
- 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:
- Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 3, p. 442.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)