Kongōkai sanjūshichison shuji 金剛界三十七尊種子

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 16006.a.3
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1670
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Very poor. Riddled with unrepaired worm holes. Seals of ownership: Small red seal (unidentified) in a frame of maple leaf shape.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Shujishū 種子集. Author/compiler: Chōzen 澄禪, Shingon monk, later abbot of the Jizōin 地藏院 in Higo province, d. 1680. Description: Renewed light blue front and back covers, embossed with a faint floral design. Renewed title slip with manuscript gedai: 金剛界卅七尊種子 全. In a western style half-leather binding. Edition: First published in Kanbun 10 (1670). This edition of Tenna 2 (1682) may be an unaltered reprint from the same blocks. No edition of 1682 is recorded. Contents: A Shingon work consisting of finely drawn siddham characters representing the names of Buddhas, bodhisattvas and lesser deities from the Buddhist pantheon. The compiler, Chōzen, was a noted calligrapher in the siddham script. His name appears on fol. 36b of maki 2, followed by his printed kaō.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Acquired from Alexander von Siebold, 22 July 1868.

Note

Another copy of maki 1 (本) of no. 173 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 9. Shingon sect 真言宗

Bibliography

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 3, p. 442.