Author/compiler: Chongxian 重顯, Chan monk. Commentary by the Chinese Chan monk Yuanwu 圜悟. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [early to mid-Muromachi period, c. 1400-1500 ?] . No kanki. Description: 5 kan, rebound in 1 vol. western style. Incomplete copy comprising maki 1-5 only. (Maki 1) ff. [1] (manuscript. tobira), [1] manuscript table of contents), 5 (prefaces), 38; (maki 2) ff. 36; (maki 3) ff. 29; (maki 4) ff. 30; (maki 5) ff. 25. 21.5 x 15 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. pf. 18.2 x 12.3 cm. (average). Single-line borders above and below text; double-line borders at inner edge of each folded leaf. Vertical rules between columns. Fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, with manuscript kunten in black ink, shubiki and a few kutōten in red. 11 lines to page, 21 characters to line. Renewed fawn covers (19th century ?), within a green half-leather western binding. No title slips, hence no gedai. Title from naidai and bidai at beginning and end of each maki. Title on handwritten tobira (copied from an earlier edition) : Engo hekiganshū 圜悟碧巖集. Hashiragaki: Hekigan 碧岩 + maki no. + folio no. Text printed on fine, strong tōshi paper. Edition: An unidentified Gozan-ban edition, not corresponding exactly to any of the 16 editions listed on pp. 265-6 of GK. There is a possibility that it might belong to edition no. 12 or 13 in GK, but copies of these are not described or illustrated in any available work of reference. Or it may be a variant edition not recorded in GK or elsewhere. The present copy has each section of the work numbered inkoku, like GK's edition no. 1, and the shape of kanji closely resembles GK no. 1, but it does not have the latter's double borders all round. A tentative conclusion is that this copy belongs to a variant edition, hitherto unrecorded, printed much later than GK no. 1 (early Nanbokuchō), probably at some date in the 15th century. 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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- Dates of Creation15th century
- Language of MaterialJapanese
- Physical Description1 volume Condition: Good. Occasional damaged folios have been repaired and lined with tissue. Book cropped at upper and lower edges, with loss of some marginal notes. Fol. 13b of maki 4 missing. Impression: Atozuri, from moderately worn blocks. Seals of ownership: Square red seal, Torio (or Torinoo) zōsho 鳥尾藏書, on tobira. Square black seal (unidentified) on first page of each maki. Red seal in the form of a bronze vessel, Erin 慧林 (?) on last page of maki 5. Manuscript notes: Tobira and list of contents preceding prefaces are handwritten, as noted above. Also a few textual notes, interlinear and in upper and lower margins.
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Acquired from an Unknown source, 1 March 1938.
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 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.