Sotei jion 祖庭事苑 [祖庭事苑]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16006.c.6
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1647
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Fair, but with an appreciable amount of worm damage, chiefly in margins. Some folios are water-stained. Cropped at upper and lower edges. Impression: Atozuri, from blocks showing the same degree of wear as no. 218 above. Seals of ownership: None. Manuscript notes: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Shanqing 善卿, Chan monk, also known as Muan 睦庵, 11th-12th century. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Tawara Nizaemon, Shōhō 4, 1647. Kanki added on last page of maki 8 reads: 正保四歳正月吉日二条通鶴屋町田原仁左衛門梓行. Description: 8 kan, formerly in 4 satsu, now rebound in 1 vol. western style. 26.3 x 17.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Renewed mid-brown front cover of satsu 1 only, embossed with a pattern of sea shells. Renewed title slip (late Edo period) with manuscript gedai: 祖庭事苑. Title from naidai at head of each maki. Edition: An Edo-period edition (1647), printed from re-cut blocks, based on earlier Gozan and movable type editions. Like the two undated Gozan editions (one printed at Nanzenji 南禪寺) published in the Nanbokuchō period (1333-92), the present edition is modelled on an earlier Chinese edition dated 1154, from which the following elements are reprinted in this copy: preface by 法英, kango (printed inkoku) ending with the date of publication 紹興甲戌 [=1154] 季夏重別刋行; batsu by 師鑒; and endnote (後序) by 紫雲. As well as the Gozan-ban, two undated movable type editions of this work were published in Genna 元和 and Kan'ei 寛永 periods. Contents: A compendium of historical allusions, phrases, personal names and other references drawn from the writings of Chinese Zen masters of the past, with explanatory comments by Shanqing 善卿.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.

Note

Another copy of no. 218 above, identical with it except in the following respects

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

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 7, pp. 4-5; Gozanban no kenkyū 五山版の研究, pp. 112, 409; Shinzan zenseki mokuroku 新纂禅籍目録, p. 268.