Variant title: Shibunritsu ganchū kaihon 四分律含注戒本. Author/compiler: Daoxuan 道宣, Chinese monk, 596-667. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [published early to mid-Kamakura period, c. 1200-50] . No colophon. Description: 3 kan, 3 jō 帖. 25 x 11.2 cm. (each half-fold). Orihon. Blockprint. Printing frame (height) 24.2-24.6 cm. Single-line border. Vertical rules between columns of text. Kanbun text, without reading marks. 5 lines to half-fold, 17 characters to line (large characters), 23 to line (small characters). Original blue front cover of maki 上; other covers darker blue, renewed at an early date. In a modern chitsu case. No title slips, no gedai. Title from naidai. Edition: Sen'yūji-ban. Although not stated in the book, this is clearly a product of the Sen'yuji 泉涌寺 monastery (also read Sennyūji) at Higashiyama, Kyōto, where many ritsu (vinaya) works were printed and published. The earliest dated edition is the Shibunritsu gyōjishō 四分律行事鈔 of Kenchō 4, 1252. Closely resembling a Chinese edition of the Song period, the present edition was printed from new blocks modelled directly on a Song edition, and incorporating the name of the original Chinese block-cutter 錢塘洪先刀 on the last page of maki 上. Contents: Text of the Shibunritsu biku kaihon 四分律比丘戒本, translated into Chinese by Buddhayaśas (408-13), with a brief commentary expounded in 630 by Daoxuan. The work prescribes rules of discipline and moral conduct for monks.
Shibunritsu biku ganchū kaihon 四分律比丘含注戒本
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 Or.64.b.12
- Dates of Creation
- [1200-1250]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 3 volumes Condition: Fair to good. Worm damage partially repaired. Impression: For the most part sharp and clear, suggesting an early impression. Only a small part of the work has been printed from the original blocks, however, the rest being supplemented by hokoku, probably dating from early Muromachi period. Seals of ownership: Two square red seals on first page of each vol.: Tetsujō no in 徹定之印 and Kokyōdō shujin 古經堂主人, both seals used by Ugai Tetsujō 鵜飼徹定, abbot of the Chion'in. Also one oval red seal on last page of maki 下: Kachōzan 華頂山, seal of the Chion'in 知恩院.
Scope and Content
Access Information
Not Public Record(s)
Unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Acquired from Kōbunsō, 15 March 1974.
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 7. Ritsu sect 律宗
Bibliography
Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 4, p. 232; Butten kaidai daijiten 仏典解題事典, pp. 108-9; Kōbunsō kohanpon mokuroku 弘文荘古版本目録, p. 70; Ryūmon bunko zenpon shomoku 竜門文庫善本書目, p. 114 and pl. 117.