Jūjūshin kōmyōmoku 十住心廣名目 [十住心広名目]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.75.g.32
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1617
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 6 volumes Condition: Excellent. Very slight worm damage, not affecting text. Impression: Clear and sharp. Seals of ownership: Large rectangular black seal, Kuhonji zōhōn 九品寺藏本, on mikaeshi of maki 1, and small circular seal on first printed page. Manuscript notes: Short notes in different hands on back endpaper of each maki, variously dated Genna 5 (1619), Genna 6 (1620) and Jōō 2 (1653), signed by monks of the Daisenji 大山寺, Kōyasan.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Jūjūshinron kōmyōmoku 十住心論廣名目 [十住心論広名目]. Author/compiler: In'yū 印融, Shingon monk, 1435-1519. Imprint: [Kōyasan 高野山] , Jōzen 淨善, Genna 3, 1617. Kanki on fol. 43b of maki 6 reads: 元和三丁巳年十一月廿二日 ／ 尾州住丹下淨善開板. Description: 6 kan, 6 satsu. (1) ff. 1, 38; (2) ff. [1] , 42; (3) ff. 2, 49; (4) ff. 2, 52; (5) ff. 2, 61; (6) ff. 1, 43. 27.8 x 19.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 23-24.5 x 17.8 cm. No borders or vertical rules. Fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text with printed kaeriten, okurigana and okototen in katakana. 9 lines to page, 20-21 characters to line. Pale buff covers, probably not original. Title slip missing from maki 1. Renewed title slips on maki 2-6. Manuscript gedai on all maki : Jūjūshin kōmyōmoku maki... 十住心廣名目巻･･･ . Naidai identical. Hashiragaki: Myōmoku 名目 + maki no. + folio no. Edition: Kōya-ban. This appears to be the earliest known edition. The publisher of this Genna 3 edition, the monk Jōzen 淨善, was responsible for printing many Kōya-ban editions in the Keichō, Genna and Kan'ei periods. Contents: A complete listing of the 254 headings in Jūjūshinron (=Himitsu mandara jūjūshinron 秘密曼荼羅十住心論), a commentary on ten stages of spiritual development by Kūkai 空海 (Kōbō Daishi), with references to earlier commentaries and with In'yu's own explanatory notes. Each maki contains a printed batsu signed by In'yū in his 76th year, dated Eishō 7, 1510, recording that the work was compiled at the request of Senjunbō 仙順房 of Kōyasan.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired at Tōkyō Kotenkai 東京古典会 auction sale, Nov. 1976, catalogue no. 246.

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 9. Shingon sect 真言宗

Bibliography

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 5, pp. 170-1; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 312; Ryūkoku daigaku wakanjo bunrui mokuroku, bukkyō no bu 竜谷大学和漢書分類目録・仏教之部, p. 554; Buzan bunko zenpon shūroku, kokatsuji-bon no bu 豊山文庫善本聚録・古活字本之部, p. 10, pl. 14.