Author/compiler: Daocheng 道誠, Chinese monk, 10th-11th century. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Maekawa Moemonnojō, n.d. [Kan'ei-Kanbun period, c. 1640-70] . Kanki reads: 前川茂右衞門尉 開板. Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu. (Maki 上) ff. 71; (中) ff. 61; (下) ff. 58. 25.9 x 17.7 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 21.6-22.1 x 15.5 cm. Single-line borders with 'flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Vertical rules dividing page into 5 double columns (small characters). Kanbun text, with printed okurigana and kaeriten, and with reading marks and sidelines added in red ink. 5 lines (large characters) to page, 10 lines (small characters), 20 small characters to line. Original (?) dark blue covers, with renewed hand-lettered title slips bearing gedai: 釋氏要覽上 (中, 下). Naidai and gedai identical. Hashiragaki: Yōran jō 要覽上 (chū 中, ge 下) + folio no. Edition: This appears to be a reprint, perhaps from the same blocks, of the blockprinted edition dated Kan'ei 寛永癸酉 (1633) published by Nakano Dōhan 中野道伴. The blocks, however, seem to have been acquired by Maekawa Moemonnojō 前川茂右衞門尉, who published the present undated edition under his own name. Previously, a Gozan-ban edition of this work had been published in the Nanbokuchō period (1333-92), based directly on a Song edition. In the present copy the original Song preface and closing note are reprinted. Contents: A dictionary of names, terms and phrases culled from Buddhist scriptural texts, arranged under 27 subject headings and briefly explained. Compiled by the monk Daocheng c. 1019.
Shakushi yōran 釋氏要覽 [釈氏要覧]
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 16007.d.12
- Dates of Creation
- [1640-1670]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 3 volumes Condition: Good. Minor worm damage, some repaired, and brown stains in maki 上. Impression: Little evidence of block wear. Seals of ownership: Large square red seal (unidentified), printed inkoku at head of each maki.
Scope and Content
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Acquisition Information
Acquired from James Troup, 21 May 1919.
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 1. General works 一般
Bibliography
Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 5, p. 16; Ueno toshokan wakanjo bunrui mokuroku 上野図書館和漢書分類目録, p. 23; Gozanban no kenkyū 五山版の研究, p. 382; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 2, p. 169 (for Gozan-ban edition).