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16006.b.29
- Record Id:
- 032-003953150
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003953150
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129646004.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 16006.b.29
- Title:
- Dengyō daishiden 傳教大師傳 [伝教大師伝]
- Scope & Content:
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Author/compiler: Kakushin 覺深, abbot of Tendai sect, also known as Hisai 非際.
Imprint: Kyōto, Ogawa Tazaemon, n.d. (kanbun preface and batsu dated Genroku 2 元禄己巳, 1689). Okuzuke on final endpaper reads: 台宗書林 ／ 京師六角通寺町西江入町 ／ 柳枝軒 小川多左衛門刻.
Description: 2 kan + furoku (appendix), 1 satsu. ff. [2] (preface signed by U Ton'an 宇遯菴), 22 (maki 上), 29 (maki 下), 18 (furoku 附録 + batsu). 25.8 x 18.4 cm. Fukurotoji.
Blockprint. Printing frame 20.4 x 15.8 cm. Single line borders. Single fishtail design on hanshin.
Hiragana-majiri (main text) with furigana, and kanbun text (preface and furoku). 9 lines to page, 20 characters (average) to line.
Original yellow covers embossed with basket-weave pattern. Original printed title slip on left, with gedai: Dengyō daishi denki 傳教大師傳記. Same title on tobira (mikaeshi), flanked by two stylised dragons in sumizuri. Hashiragaki: 傳教大師傳上 (下) + folio no. In a buckram slip-case.
Edition: The only recorded pre-Meiji edition.
Contents: Illustrated biography of Dengyō Daishi, also known as Saichō 最澄, 767-822, founder of the Tendai sect in Japan.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Japanese woodblock materials
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003953150
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003953150
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Japanese
- Scripts:
- Japanese
- Start Date:
- 1689
- End Date:
- 1689
- Date Range:
- 1689
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Japan
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: Excellent. No worm damage or stains.
Impression: Atozuri from moderately worn blocks.
Illustrations: Single-page sumizuri woodcuts, illustrating scenes in the life of Saichō, on ff. 4a, 9b, 又12a, 14b-15a, 19a, 21b of maki 上; and on ff. 2b, 6a-b, 11a, 17a, 21a-b, 26b, of maki 下. Artist unknown.
Seals of ownership: None.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired from James Troup, 29 June 1908.
- 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 10. Tendai sect 天台宗
- Publications:
- Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 8, p. 165; Shōwa genson Tendai shoseki sōgō mokuroku 昭和現存天台書籍綜合目録, p. 1033.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)