Genju shojō hosshū 賢首諸乘法數 [賢首諸乗法数]

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 59 Or.59.d.9
  • Dates of Creation
      [1624-1644]
  • Language of Material
      Japanese
  • Physical Description
      1 volume Condition: Poor. Badly worm-damaged throughout. Impression: Atozuri, from worn blocks. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Xingshen 行深 (Japanese. Gyōshin), Chinese monk, Ming period. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [c. Kan'ei period, 1624-44] . Kanki in kanbun dated 弘治十三年 (1500), copied on fol. 77b from the original Korean edition. (See under Edition bclow.). Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in 1 vol. western style. ff. 78. 27.4 x 18.2 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 17.5 x 13.5 cm. Single-line borders, with fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text without reading marks. Variable no. of lines to page and characters to line. Renewed blue embossed covers of late-Edo period, within modern western-style buckram binding. Handwritten title slip on left, contemporary with covers. Gedai and naidai identical. Hashiragaki: Hō 法 (or Hosshū 法數) + folio no. Edition: Reprint, from blocks engraved in Japan, of a Korean edition first printed in Hongzhi 13 弘治十三年 (1500). This edition is not recorded in any reference work yet consulted. Original kanki reads: 慶尚道陜川地伽耶山鳳栖寺開板. Contents: A synoptic work on the doctrines of various branches of the Tendai sect.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.

Other 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

Bibliography

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 3, p. 215.