Author/compiler: Shanqing 善卿, Chan monk, also known as Muan 睦庵, 11th-12th century. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Tawara Nizaemon, Shōhō 4, 1647. Kanki added on last page of maki 8 reads: 正保四歳正月吉日二条通鶴屋町田原仁左衛門梓行. Description: 8 kan, formerly in 2 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. (1) ff. 4 (preface), 3 (contents), 22; (2) ff. 26; (3) ff. 30; (4) ff. 29; (5) ff. 22; (6) ff. 35; (7) ff. 27; (8) ff. 21. 27.8 x 19.7 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 23.5-24 x 15.9 cm. Double-line borders with 'flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text with printed okurigana (katakana) and kaeriten, and with reading marks in red ink. 14 lines to page, 28 characters (small script) to line. Original deep-blue covers (repaired) : front cover of maki 1-4, back cover of maki 5-8, within western style cloth binding. No title slip. Manuscript gedai: 祖庭事苑 自一至四 (自五至八 on inner side of back cover). Naidai and gedai identical. Hashiragaki: So 祖 + maki no. + folio no. In a western style cloth binding. Edition: An Edo-period edition (1647), printed from re-cut blocks, based on earlier Gozan and movable type editions. Like the two undated Gozan editions (one printed at Nanzenji 南禪寺) published in the Nanbokuchō period (1333-92), the present edition is modelled on an earlier Chinese edition dated 1154, from which the following elements are reprinted in this copy: preface by 法英, kango (printed inkoku) ending with the date of publication 紹興甲戌 [=1154] 季夏重別刋行; batsu by 師鑒; and endnote (後序) by 紫雲. As well as the Gozan-ban, two undated movable type editions of this work were published in Genna 元和 and Kan'ei 寛永 periods. Contents: A compendium of historical allusions, phrases, personal names and other references drawn from the writings of Chinese Zen masters of the past, with explanatory comments by Shanqing 善卿.
Sotei jion 祖庭事苑 [祖庭事苑]
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- Dates of Creation1647
- Language of MaterialJapanese
- Physical Description1 volume Condition: Good, with only minimal worm damage in margins. Impression: Atozuri, from slightly worn blocks. Seals of ownership: Red oblong seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, on first page of maki 1 and maki 5. Manuscript notes: Apart from reading marks in red, only a few textual notes in upper margins.
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Purchased by the British Mseum from Rev. Andrew Patton, Ballymena 7 April 1906.
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Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993).B. Buddhist works 仏書 11. Zen sect 禅宗
Bibliography
Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 7, pp. 4-5; Gozanban no kenkyū 五山版の研究, pp. 112, 409; Shinzan zenseki mokuroku 新纂禅籍目録, p. 268.