Author/compiler: Daotai 道泰 and Zhijing 智境, Chinese Chan monks, Yuan dynasty. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Rinsenji, Kikō (or Kegō) 希杲, Jōji 6, 1367. Kanki (following the table of contents of maki 1, on fol. 4) reads: 貞治六年丁未解制日幹緣僧希杲重刋于京臨川寺. Description: 20 kan, formerly in 10 satsu, bound in 2 vols. (western style). (1) ff. 4, 58; (2) ff. 59; (3) ff. 53; (4) ff. 49; (5) ff. 55; (6) ff. 57; (7) ff. 55; (8) ff. 54; (9) ff. 58; (10) ff. 56; (11) ff. 54; (12) ff. 58; (13) ff. 56; (14) ff. 56; (15) ff. 57; (16) ff. 50; (17) ff. 48; (18) ff. 52; (19) ff. 49; (20) ff. 1-53, 56. 23.7 x 16.4 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame variable between 18.7 x 13.5 and 19.5 × 13.7 cm. Single borders above and below text; double borders (one thick, one thin) at right and left of each folded leaf. Vertical rules. Fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text without reading marks. 12 lines to page, 22 characters to line. Grey front covers (old but not original) of maki 1-2 and 9-10 only, the latter preceding maki 11 at head of new leather-bound vol. 2. No title slips. Gedai handwritten c. mid-Edo period. Naidai and gedai identical: 禪林類聚. Hashiragaki: Ruijū 類聚 + maki no. + folio no. (See also notes below.). Edition: Gozan-ban, based on an earlier Chinese edition of Yuan period. First Japanese edition. Printed by Tōkō Kikō 東岡希杲 (see under Imprint above), with financial support from a large number of monks whose names and contributions are printed liberally throughout the text and on the hanshin of many folios. (For full details of names, donations, maki and folio references see Kawase: Gozan-ban no kenkyū, pp. 407-8.) This edition is also notable for the printed names of Chinese block-cutters, Yasha 夜叉 and Chōyū 長有, which appear on certain pages in maki 17, 19 and elsewhere (see Gozan-ban no kenkyū, p. 406). Within a short time after publication in 1367, due to heavy demand and use, some of the blocks required re-cutting. Many were newly engraved from time to time, to supplement those which were still usable. In particular, the 4-leaf table of contents at the head of maki 1 was soon reprinted from new blocks engraved by the Chinese block-cutter 陳孟榮, an immigrant craftsman who came to Japan in Ōan 3, 1370, and whose name appears at the end of the mokuroku 目録 on fol. 4b of the reprint. Copies of the later edition containing this name arc held by Keiō Gijuku, Daitōkyū, Tōyō Bunko, ex-Takagi Bunko, ex-Obama Bunko and ex-Mitsui-ke. Contents: A classified collection of extracts from sayings (goroku 語録) of Chinese Chan Buddhist masters, explaining their terminology and methods of teaching, arranged in 102 categories. Compiled by Daotai and Zhijing, and first printed in China in 1307.
Zenrin ruijū 禪林類聚 [禅林類聚]
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or.59.a.6
- Dates of Creation
- 1367
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes Condition: Good. Urauchi repairs to first and last few folios of each maki. Impression: An early impression, sharp and clear. Seals of ownership: Two red seals, one round, one square, on last leaf of each maki. Also an additional red seal in the shape of a bronze vessel, at the end of some maki. Manuscript notes: At end of maki 1: 伯州八橋郡中山村金龍山退休寺常住公用 全永置之. Repeated in other maki in abbreviated form: 伯之退休常住公用 全永置之; and, at end of maki 10, 12 and 18: 現住鳳現置之.
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Acquisition Information
Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.
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
Gozanban no kenkyū 五山版の研究, pp. 136-7, 298, 406-8, pl. 185-7; Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 6, p. 412; Ishii Sekisuiken bunko zenpon shomoku 石井積翠軒文庫善本書目, p. 89, pl. 134; Tenri toshokan kisho mokuroku 天理図書館稀書目録, vol. 3, p. 98; Zenpon eifu 善本影譜, series 2, vol. 10; Kokuritsu kokkai toshokan shozō kichōsho kaidai 国立国会図書館所蔵貴重書解題, vol. 1, pp. 42-5.