Variant title: Nishidani myōmoku 西谷名目. Author/compiler: Unknown, but possibly the work of a monk of the monastic complex on Mount Hiei Eizan 叡山. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [c. Kan'ei period, 1624-44] . No colophon, but probably an Eizan publication. Description: 2 kan, 1 satsu, bound in 1 vol. (western style). (上) ff. 45; (下) ff. 36. 31.2 x 21.2 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 23.2 x 16.8 cm. Hand-drawn single-line borders, with printed 'flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, with kunten and kaeriten added by hand in 17th century. 10 lines to page, 20 characters to line. Light blue front cover only, dating from early Edo period, within western style half-leather binding. No title slip. Handwritten gedai, contemporary with cover, reads: Nishidani myōmoku 西谷名目. Added note below gedai, in a late-Edo hand: Keichō katsuji-ban 慶長活字版. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Myōmoku jō 名目上 (ge 下) + folio no. Edition: Apparently the only movable type edition of this work. Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典 records seihan editions of Shōhō 4 (1647), Keian 3 (1650), Kanbun 8 (1668), Enpō 3 (1675), etc. This is one of the many movable type editions printed at Buddhist monasteries in and around the Kan'ei period. Contents: A brief summary of the teachings of Tendai Buddhism, followed by an outline of the doctrines of the eight principal Buddhist sects.
Tendai enshū shikyō goji nishidani myōmoku 天台圓宗四教五時西谷名目 [天台円宗四教五時西谷名目]
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- Dates of Creation[1624-1644]
- Language of MaterialJapanese
- Physical Description1 volume Condition: Fair. Some worm damage throughout, but chiefly in margins. Impression: Occasional signs of worn type (or over-inking) in places, otherwise sharp. Seals of ownership: Square indigo seal, Zenrin zōsho 禪林藏書, and a further square red seal, on fol. 1a. Manuscript notes: Notes in kanbun in margins, some interlinear glosses, and two added leaves of manuscript notes following ff. 7 and 22 of maki 下.
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Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 13 June 1885.
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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 10. Tendai sect 天台宗
Bibliography
Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 8, p. 110; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 788; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 2, p. 191.