Variant title: Hanju-zanmai gyōdō ōjōsan 般舟讃昧行道往生讃. Author/compiler: Shandao 善導 (Japanese: Zendō), Chinese monk, 613-81. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [printed late-Kamakura period, c. 1300-30] . No kanki. Description: 1 kan, 1 jō. ff. [32] . Folios unnumbered. Incomplete copy: several folios are missing at beginning and end. Collation with printed version in Shichiso shōgyō 七祖聖教 confirms this. 25.3 x 15.5 cm. Detchō binding. Blockprint. Printing frame 22 x 12.8 cm. Thick ganpi (hishi) paper, printed on both sides. No borders or vertical rules. Kanbun text, with manuscript okurigana, kunten and kaeriten, some in black ink, some in red. 6 lines to page, 17 characters to line. Light brown covers (slightly rubbed) renewed in early Edo period. No title slip. No gedai or naidai. Title partly ascertainable from a faintly visible 'san' 讃 under pasted edge of some of the inner folds. Book formerly identified (incorrectly) by the vendor as Ōjō raisan 往生禮讃. Edition: Earliest Japanese edition was published in Jōei 1 貞永元年 (1232).. This copy is clearly a Jōdokyō-ban, but in the absence of a colophon, and without any basis for comparison with the Jōei 1 edition, it is impossible to date it more accurately than late-Kamakura period. Contents: A collection of 7-line verses (san 讃=ge 偈, gāthā) on Jōdo doctrine and in praise of the Buddha, preceded by a preface and followed by an endnote (missing from this copy), all composed by the Chinese monk Shandao of the Tang period. A work designed to promote the practice of meditation (hanju-zanmai 般舟讃昧=pratyutpanna-samādhi) to invoke the presence of Amida Buddha.
Hanjusan 般舟讃
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 Or.64.b.11
- Dates of Creation
- [1300-1330]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Very good. Minimal worm damage affecting margins only. Impression: Near-shozuri, sharp and clear. Seals of ownership: None, except Getsumeisō 月明莊, seal of the bookseller Kōbunsō.
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 4. Jōdo, jōdo shinshū sects 浄土・浄土真宗
Bibliography
Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 9, p. 51; Jōdokyō-ban no kenkyū 浄土教版の研究, pp. 43, 69, 74, 108; Jōdoshū daijiten 浄土宗大辞典, vol. 3, p. 194; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 2, p. 125; Kōbunsō kohanpon mokuroku 弘文荘古版本目録, p. 68 (under title Ōjō raisan 往生禮讃).