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16010.a.25
- Record Id:
- 032-003953149
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003953149
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129646003.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16010.a.25
- Title:
- Shuinzu 手印圖 [手印図]
- Scope & Content:
-
Variant title: Jūni gasshō gobu hiden 十二合掌五部秘傳
Author/compiler: Unknown.
Imprint: N.p., Jōkyō 1, 1684. Kanki on fol. 17a reads: 貞享元年甲子季冬上旬.
Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a slip-case. ff. [1] (目録), 17. 18.9 x 13.3 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 16.2 x 12.3 cm. Single-line borders. Single fishtail design on hanshin.
Kanbun text with printed okurigana and kaeriten, with some siddham characters interspersed. 8 lines to page, 15 characters to line.
Original yellow covers, with original printed title slip. Gedai: Kaisei (tsunogaki) shuinzu 改正 (角書) 手印圖. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Shuinzu 手印圖 + folio no.
Edition: The only recorded edition of Edo period.
Contents: A Shingon Buddhist work on making symbolic signs with the fingers.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003953149
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003953149
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1684
- End Date:
- 1684
- Date Range:
- 1684
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Good, apart from slight worm damage in upper margins.
Impression: Shozuri or near.
Illustrations: Sumizuri woodcuts of hands on ff. 1 (a and b), 9b and 10a.
Seals of ownership: Oblong red 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.
- 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 9. Shingon sect 真言宗
- Publications:
- Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 5, p. 44.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)