Shakushi yōran 釋氏要覽 [釈氏要覧]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 ORB 30/157
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1640-1670]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 3 volumes Condition: Excellent. Impression: Atozuri. A much later impression than 16007.d.12. Seals of ownership: Red oblong seal of Sir Ernest Satow, 英國薩道藏書, on first page of maki 上. Three unidentified seals, one in an elaborate red frame in the shape of a Chinese bronze vessel.

Scope and Content

Author/compiler: Daocheng 道誠, Chinese monk, 10th-11th century. Imprint: [Kyōto] , Maekawa Moemonnojō, n.d. [Kan'ei-Kanbun period, c. 1640-70] . Kanki reads: 前川茂右衞門尉 開板. Description: No manuscript reading marks or sidelines. Fawn front cover (original ?) of maki 上 only. Title slip missing. Manuscript gedai: 釋氏要覽完. 3 satsu bound together within a western style cloth binding. .Edition: This appears to be a reprint, perhaps from the same blocks, of the blockprinted edition dated Kan'ei 寛永癸酉 (1633) published by Nakano Dōhan 中野道伴. The blocks, however, seem to have been acquired by Maekawa Moemonnojō 前川茂右衞門尉, who published the present undated edition under his own name. Previously, a Gozan-ban edition of this work had been published in the Nanbokuchō period (1333-92), based directly on a Song edition. In the present copy the original Song preface and closing note are reprinted. Contents: A dictionary of names, terms and phrases culled from Buddhist scriptural texts, arranged under 27 subject headings and briefly explained. Compiled by the monk Daocheng c. 1019.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from an unknown source (not directly from Satow), c. 1900.

Note

Another copy of no. 110, identical with it in all respects except for the following

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 1. General works 一般

Bibliography

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 5, p. 16; Ueno toshokan wakanjo bunrui mokuroku 上野図書館和漢書分類目録, p. 23; Gozanban no kenkyū 五山版の研究, p. 382; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 2, p. 169 (for Gozan-ban edition).