Variant title: Rinzairoku 臨濟錄 [臨済録]. Variant title: Eshō zenji goroku 慧照禪師語錄 [慧照禅師語録]. Author/compiler: Huiran 惠然 or 慧然, Chinese Chan monk. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Nanbokuchō period, c. 1340-90] . No colophon. Manuscript note at end is dated Kakitsu 2, 1442 (see below). Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, rebound in western style. ff. 1 [preface] , 35. 27.7 x 19.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 23.3-23.6 x 17.6 cm. Single-line borders above and below text; double-line borders at right and left of ff. 1-7, thereafter single-line. Vertical rules between columns. Single fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text with manuscript kunten in black and reading marks in red, both dating from mid-Muromachi period (c. 1400-50). 11 lines to page, 20 characters to line. Vermilion cover (front only), not original but added in early-Edo period and subsequently repaired, within a western style half-leather binding. No title slip. Handwritten gedai in an early-Edo hand: Rinzairoku zen 臨濟錄 全. Title from naidai. Hashiragaki: Rinzai 臨濟 + folio no. Edition: Gozan-ban, belonging to an edition not hitherto recorded in Japan. Like other Gozan-ban editions of this work, the present copy is based on a Chinese edition of the Song period, and on fol. 35b (printed from a re-cut block less worn than the rest of the text) appears the first line of the original Song 2-line kanki, reading: 住大名府興化嗣法小師存奘校勘. The first Japanese edition of Rinzairoku was published at Shōun'an 祥雲庵 in Kenninji monastery in Gen'ō 2 元応二年 (1320), and was followed by two re-cut editions, one repeating the Gen'ō 2 kanki, the other undated. The first line of the Gen'ō 2 kanki, lacking the date in line 2, has been copied in a mid-Muromachi hand on fol. 35b of the present copy, after the printed Song kanki. It reads as follows: 佛祖正宗貴久流傳因玆此録鏤板捨入祥雲庵. Further Gozan editions of this work were printed in Eikyō 9 永享九年 (1437) and Entoku 3 延徳三年 (1491). All of them differ from the present copy, which has an excellent hanshiki. Contents: Recorded sayings of Yixuan 義玄, also known as Huizhao 慧照, founder of the Linji 臨濟 sect in China, collected by his disciple Huiran 慧然. A Chinese edition of 1120 survives.
Chinshū rinzai eshō zenji goroku 鎭州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 [鎮州臨済慧照禅師語録]
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- Reference
- GB 59 ORB 30/140
- Dates of Creation
- [1340-1390]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Good, though every folio has been strengthened by urauchi backing, thus repairing some worm holes. Impression: Atozuri, from badly worn blocks. Seals of ownership: Square blue seal, Zenrin zōsho 禪林藏書, on fol. 1a. Manuscript notes: Copious textual notes in margins, written in mid-Muromachi period, in addition to kunten, etc., noted above. Endnote on last folio (35b) is dated Kakitsu 2 (1442) and reads: 右板木在妙光寺方丈 ／ 嘉吉二年壬戌九月十三日圓日印寫之 ／ 住山 蘋齋老衲志焉. Above this, in a large Edo-period hand, is written: 他見無用. Note on mikaeshi, concealed by new endpaper: Zenrinji 禪林寺.
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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).B. Buddhist works 仏書 11. Zen sect 禅宗
Bibliography
Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 8, p. 73; Butten kaidai daijiten 仏典解題事典, p. 211; Gozanban no kenkyū 五山版の研究, pp. 81, 238, 418, pl. 39-41; Kokuritsu kokkai toshokan shozō kichōsho kaidai 国立国会図書館所蔵貴重書解題, vol. 1, pp. 29-30; Shinzan zenseki mokuroku 新纂禅籍目録, p. 519.