Kōkyō 孝經 [孝経]

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or70.a.22
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1648-1650]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 scroll Condition: Good, apart from flaking outer end-cover. Impression: An early impression, sharp and clear. Seals of ownership: None.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keian 1-3, 1648-50] . See under Edition below. No kanki. Description: 1 kan, 1 roll (kansubon 巻子本). A continuous roll, 178 cm. in length, 15.2 cm. in height, made up of sheets of ganpi paper pasted together. Blockprint. Printed area: 168 x 10.3 cm., 1.25 cm. between vertical rules. Gold borders above and below text, and between columns. Kanbun text without kunten or other reading marks. Small neat kaisho script with a slanting bias. 119 lines of main text, 16 characters to line. Original end-cover of ganpi paper, decorated on inner surface with gold leaf; outer surface faced with silk overpainted with a design of water plants in gold. No title slip or gedai. Title from naidai. Margins above, below and around printed area decorated with a pattern of small chrysanthemum flowers in gold paint; reverse of roll ornamented with gold kirihaku. Original wooden roller of hinoki wood. Silk tie-ribbon renewed. Edition: Printed from the autograph of Nakae Tōju 中江藤樹, a Japanese scholar of the Wang Yangming school, after his death, Keian 1 (1648), by Nakagawa Kenshuku 中川謙叔, his ablest disciple. Contents: Text of Xiaojing 孝經, the Confucian classic of filial piety, without annotation or commentary. Preceded by a 19-line prefatory note in Chinese headed Shōkyō igi 誦經威儀, printed in the same style of script.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Acquired from Ernest M. Satow, 22 Sept. 1884.

Other Finding Aids

Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993).A. Chinese works 漢籍 2. Chinese classics 経書

Bibliography

Kanseki kaidai 漢籍解題, p. 43; Kanbun taikei 漢文大系, vol. 5; Okayama-han gakkō shiyō no Nakae Tōju shuhitsu kōkyō hanpon ni tsuite 岡山藩学校使用の中江藤樹手筆孝経版本に就いて, in Kōkyōgaku ronshū 孝経学論集, pp. 409-22.