Keitoku dentōroku 景德傳燈錄 [景徳伝灯録]

Author/compiler: Daoyuan 道原, Chinese Chan monk. Imprint: Rakuyō [Kyōto] , Kenninji Tenjun'an 建仁寺天潤菴, Gyokuhō 玉峯 (=Shōrin 正琳). Jōwa 4, 1348. Kanki at end of text, on fol. 18b of maki 30, signed by Gyokuhō 玉峯, reads: 貞和四年歳在戊子洛陽寄住正琳命工刻梓 ／ 捨置于普濟大聖禪師塔所建仁寺天潤菴廣開 ／ 法眼永祝堯年上報 ／ 四恩下資三有法界有情同圓種智者 ／ 玉峯敬書. Longer colophon (kango) on last folio of maki 30, signed by Shidon 士曇 (1285-1361), reads: 始從鹿林終至鶴樹於其二中際全無一字談佛 ／ 語所載之宗猷祖師別傳之妙旨不是教意亦非 ／ 祖意之謂矣譬始離油與盞之外而別傳灯也 ／ 此録權輿南方無人板行東土天下禪林思慕久 ／ 矣粤有勢州前太守若江氏琳玉峯施于錢財鋟 ／ 于梓木灯之續𤔵光顯其傳焉擧世僉日呉僧 ／ 道原復生本朝得法普濟大聖令知師承有在聊 ／ 亦宗任侍者化他而發千七百善知識狗頭酌来之 ／ 機者歟 ／ 貞和戊子八月廿五 ／ 南禪乾峯士曇謹誌. Description: 30 kan, formerly in 15 satsu (each containing 2 kan), now rebound in two large vols. western style. Printed text of maki 3 and 4 has been replaced by a manuscript copy in a late-Muromachi hand. 26.5 x 18.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame variable between 21.7 and 23 cm. (height) x 15.8 and 16 cm. (width). Single-line borders above and below text; double-line borders (one thick, one thin) at inner edge of each folded leaf. Vertical rules between columns. Fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, with some manuscript reading marks in black and red. 13 lines to page, 22-25 characters to line. Yellow front covers (old but not original) of maki 1 and 17 only. No title slips. No gedai. Title from naidai at head of text. Hashiragaki: Den dai 1 (etc.) 傳第一 (等) + folio no. Edition: Gozan-ban, printed at the Tenjun'an, Kenninji. First Japanese edition of this work, based on a Yuan Chinese edition dated 延祐三年 (1316). The original Yuan kanki is reproduced by the Japanese block-cutter at the end of almost every maki. Additionally, a short Japanese kanki relating to this edition is printed at the end of maki 10, 24 and 27. (Note, however, that the kanki printed in maki 24 and 27 of this copy differ from those quoted by Kawase in GK, p. 105, in that each ends: ･･･ 法眼宗應刊行. See Kawase's remarks on Shūō 宗應 in GK, pp. 105-6.) In maki 2 and 3 of this edition, abbreviated names of original block-cutters of the Yuan edition are retained. According to the kango quoted above, the cost of printing this edition was borne by the monk Gyokuhō 玉峯 (also known as Chitaku 智琢 and Shōrin 正琳) of the Kenninji, Tenjun'an, formerly a bushi of the Wakae 若江 family. Contents: A biographical work compiled by Daoyuan in 1004, tracing the lineage of Zen Buddhism to the seven Buddhas of the past and giving short biographies, or quoting the names, of 1,701 Chinese and Indian Zen masters. An important source for the history of Chan Buddhism in China.

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Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.

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

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 3, p. 114; Gozanban no kenkyū 五山版の研究, pp. 105, 370, pl. 100-1, 104; Kokuritsu kokkai toshokan shozō kichōsho kaidai 国立国会図書館所蔵貴重書解題, vol. 1, pp. 39-42; Zenpon eifu 善本影譜, series 3, vol. 2.