Chūgasan 註畫讃 [註画讃]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 ORB 30/308
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1671
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 3 volumes Condition: Fair to good. Many folios are rubbed and soiled through frequent handling. Impression: An early impression showing comparatively little wear on blocks. llustrations: See no. 162 below. Illustrations are similar, though not printed from the same blocks, and are distributed in the same way throughout the 3 satsu. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Variant title: E-iri nichiren ichidaiki 繪入日蓮一代記 [絵入日蓮一代記]. Variant title: Nichiren shōnin chūgasan 日蓮上人註畫讃 [日蓮上人註画讃]. Author/compiler: Nitchō 日澄, Nichiren priest, 1441-1510. Imprint: Edo, Urokogataya, Kanbun 11, 1671. Kanki on fol. 42b reads: 寛文十一辛亥九月吉辰 ／ 江戸大傳馬三町目 ／ 鱗形屋板. Description: 5 kan, 3 satsu, in a buckram chitsu case. The same foliation as no. 162 below. 27 x 18.9 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 22.5 x 17.2 cm. (average). Single-line borders round each page. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text, with some printed furigana. 15 lines to page, 24-26 characters to line. Original vermilion covers, with original printed title slips on left. Gedai: E-iri (tsunogaki) Nichiren ichidaiki 繪入 (角書) 日蓮一代記. Title from mokurokudai and head of maki 2-5. Hashiragaki: Nichiren 日蓮 + folio no. Edition: The third blockprinted edition, dated Kanbun 11 (1671). It shows marked differences from the later undated edition (see 16087.b.8). Contents: An exegetical work discussing the doctrines of the Kegongyō (Skt. Avataṃsaka-sūtra, Ch. Huayan-jing) and the critical classification of its five teachings and ten sects. Circulated widely in Japan after its introduction from China in the 8th century. Extant copies are in 3 or 4 kan.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Transferred from the British Museum in 1973.

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 6. Nichiren sect 日蓮宗

Bibliography

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 3, pp. 4, 44; Tenri toshokan kisho mokuroku 天理図書館稀書目録, vol. 3, p. 90; Butten kaidai daijiten 仏典解題事典, p. 203; Nara kangyōshi 寧楽刊経史, pp. 192-3, 280; Kōya-ban no kenkyū 高野板之研究, pp. 60, 327; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 33.