Variant title: Engo zenji hekiganroku 圜悟禪師碧巖錄 [圜悟禅師碧巌録]. Variant title: Hekiganroku 碧巖錄 [碧巌録]. Variant title: Engo hekiganshū 圜悟碧巖集 [圜悟碧巌集]. Author/compiler: Chongxian 重顯, Chan monk, also known as Xuedou 雪寶, 980-1052. Commentary by the Chinese Chan monk Yuanwu 圜悟. Imprint: Noto 能登, Sōjiji 総持寺, n.d. [mid-Muromachi period, c. 1500] . 3 kanki, all undated: (1) on title-page (tobira) : 本朝能州摠持禪寺置焉; (2) on last page of maki 2 (printed inkoku) : 施主栄林総繁菴主; (3) on last page of maki 3 (also printed inkoku) : 前総持承天大和尚奉報御恩也,. Description: 10 kan, 10 satsu, later rebound in 1 vol. western style, now reconstituted in 10 satsu, sewn in Japanese / Chinese style. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 18.3-18.7 x 12.8 cm. Single-line borders above and below text (except for maki 1, ff. 1-4, which are double); double-line borders at inner edge of each folded leaf. Vertical rules between columns. Fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, with printed kutōten. Manuscript okurigana and kaeriten added in black ink, and some shubiki in red. 11 lines to page, 21 characters to line. Original mid-blue front cover of satsu 1 and back cover of satsu 10 only. No title slip, but the former bears a manuscript gedai (written in Muromachi period) : Hekiganshū 碧巖集, Tobira: 圜悟碧巖集. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Hekigan 碧巖 + maki no. + folio no. Edition: Gozan-ban, printed at the Sōjiji 総持寺, a monastery formerly in the Noto 能登 peninsula, Ishikawa-ken. Although undated, this edition is attributable to the Meiō period (1492-1501), since it was published as a tribute to Shōten 承天, appointed abbot of the Sōjiji in Meiō 3 明応三年, 1494 (see kanki no. 3 transcribed above). This was the earliest of all provincial editions (地方版) of this work, modelled on the Tōfukuji 東福寺 edition of late-Nanbokuchō period (late-14th century). The Hekiganroku, the most widely read and studied of all Zen compilations, was extensively published in Japan between the late-Nanbokuchō and late-Muromachi periods; no less than 16 editions are identified in GK, pp. 265-6. All of them are based on a Chinese exemplar of the early 14th century, of which the original title-page, prefaces and imprints are reprinted in the present copy. Contents: A collection of 100 kōan 公案 selected by the Song monk Chongxian from the 1700 kōan contained in Keitoku dentōroku 景德傳燈錄, with commentary by the later Chan monk Yuanwu 圜悟, also known as Keqin 克勤.
Bukka engo zenji hekiganroku 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 [仏果圜悟禅師碧巌録]
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- Physical Description10 volumes Condition: Very good. Few worm holes, skilfully repaired by urauchi throughout. Impression: Mostly sharp and clear, but with ink-spread in places. Seals of ownership: Large red seal of Kinryūji 金龍寺, within double borders, on first or last page of most maki. Square red seal, Nanpo bunko 南畝文庫, on first page, and oblong red seal Ōta-shi zōsho 大田氏藏書, on last page of most maki (both seals used by Ōta Nanpo). Manuscript notes: (1) Contents lists in a late-Muromachi hand at head of each maki. (2) Marginal notes in a different hand sporadically throughout text. (3) Ownership note on fol. 35b of maki 10, in a late-Edo period hand, reads: 贈権大納言新田源義貞開基常陸國河内郡若柴驛大田山金龍禪寺常住. (See Seals of ownership below.) (4) Two paper slips pasted on front cover, also in a late-Edo hand, inscribed as follows: (i) 此本常陸國新田義貞開基金龍寺藏板ニ而天正年間元板飜刻本ナルト, (ii) 元板飜刻本碧岩錄南畝所藏本. The first of these is erroneous. This copy was not published at the Kinryūji, but merely owned by it.
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Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.
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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. 9, pp. 283, 359; Butten kaidai daijiten 仏典解題事典, p. 212; Gozanban no kenkyū 五山版の研究, pp. 174, 256, 263-5, 430-3, pl 487-8; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 2, p. 170; Ishii Sekisuiken bunko zenpon shomoku 石井積翠軒文庫善本書目, p. 102, p1. 202.