Author/compiler: Zhiyi 智顗, founder of the Tiantai 天台 sect in China, 531-97. Expounded by Zhiyi and recorded by his disciple Guanding 灌頂, 561-632. Imprint: N.p. [Hieizan] , Kōan 3-5, 1280-82. Each of the 6 kan has a printed kanki. These kanki read: (maki 3) 弘安三年九月三日於關東書寫訖 嚴成生年七十一; (maki 4) 弘安四年三月十三日 ／ 執筆嚴成奥弟子嚴尋終功矣 ／ 願主權大僧都承詮; (maki 6) 弘安四年六月十五日書寫畢 ／ 執筆阿闍梨頼慶; (maki 7) 弘安四年五月二十三日書寫畢 ／ 叡岳沙門承覺; (maki 8) 弘安五年十一月八日書寫之執筆阿闍梨大法師藥圓; (maki 10) 弘安四年六月廿三日書寫訖 ／ 執筆權律師隆教. Description: 6 kan (of 10), 6 jō. Incomplete copy comprising: maki 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10. Folios unnumbered. 26 x 15.8-16 cm. Bound in detchō style. within 2 chitsu cases of gold and brown figured brocade. Blockprint. Printing frame 22 x 13-13.5 cm. No borders or vertical rules. Text printed on both sides of thick ganpi paper. Kanbun text, with handwritten kunten (c. late-Kamakura period) in black katakana and some reading marks in red. 7 lines to page, 17 characters to line. Pale-buff covers, renewed (in the case of maki 3, 7 and 8 with paper of double thickness) probably in early Edo period. Paper of back covers is similar in colour and texture to paper of text. (Stab-holes at spine indicate that the volumes were thread-sewn at some stage.) No title slips. No gedai. Title from naidai. Edition: Eizan-ban, printed from hanshita of high calligraphic quality by copyists of note. The kanki of maki 4 records the name of the ganshu who commissioned the printing of the work: Shōsen 承詮. No other pre-Edo Japanese editions have been traced. Bussho kaisetsu daijiten records only this edition of Kōan period, followed by one dated Meireki 3, 1657. Dates of copying noted in the colophons above may be regarded also as the dates of printing. The script reflected in the hanshita of this edition is large, bold and regular, in the tradition of early manuscript sutras. Contents: One of the Hokke sandaibu 法華三大部, three fundamental works of Tendai Buddhism dealing with the Lotus Sutra. (The other two are Hokke gengi 法華玄義 and Hokke mongu 法華文句.) Maka shikan (Chinese: Mohe zhiguan), a work based on verbal teachings of Zhiyi 智顗 (Japanese: Chigi), written down by Guanding, sets out to explain aspects of meditation from the viewpoint of the Tendai sect.
Maka shikan 摩詞止觀 [摩詞止観]
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or.64.b.9
- Dates of Creation
- 1280-1282
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 6 volumes Condition: Good, apart from worm damage at spine (extensive in maki 6 and 8). Impression: Shozuri, sharp and clear. Seals of ownership: Black oblong seal, Hōrei bunko 寶玲文庫 (seal of Frank Hawley), and red seal, Getsumeisō 月明莊 (seal of Kōbunsō), on last page of each jō. Manuscript notes: As well as manuscript kunten noted above, there are numerous marginal notes in black ink, written c. Muromachi period. Also an early inscription (denoting ownership ?) on the inner back cover of each satsu, reading: 播州明石郡 大山寺. Signature of a former owner, Chisen 沙門知仙 on mikaeshi of maki 10, at bottom right.
Scope and Content
Access Information
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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 10. Tendai sect 天台宗
Bibliography
Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 10, pp. 251-3; Butten kaidai daijiten 仏典解題事典, p. 184; Kōbunsō kohanpon mokuroku 弘文荘古版本目録, p. 38; Hōsho yoroku 訪書余録, vol. 4, fol. 6b and pl. 16.