Variant title: Ōhara mondō 大原問答. Author/compiler: Seikaku (also read Shōkaku) 聖覺, 1167-1235, who recorded questions on Jōdo doctrine and replies by Genkū 源空, known as Hōnen Shōnin 法然上人, 1133-1212. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Kyōto region ?, Genna / Kan'ei period, 1615-44] . Publisher and place of publication not stated. No colophon. Description: 1 kan, 1 satsu, in a modern chitsu case. ff. 31. 26.2 x 17.8 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 20.6 x 15 cm. No borders. 'Flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text without printed kunten. 7 lines to page, 17 characters to line. Dark brown covers, old but not original, without title slip. No gedai. Title from naidai at head of text and from bidai on fol. 31a. Hashiragaki: Ō 大 + folio no. Edition: Jōdokyō-ban. The only movable type edition of this work, probably printed at a Jōdoshū monastery in the Kyōto region. Undated, but attributable to Genna / Kan'ei period, 1615-44. Earliest printed editions are blockprints dated Eishō 17 永正十七年 (1520), two of Muromachi period (undated), and Keichō 8 (1603). The proliferation of blockprinted editions following the present kokatsuji-ban in Shōhō 3 (1646), Shōhō 4 (1647), Keian 4 (1651), Kanbun 12 (1672) and Enpō 5 (1677) testifies to the importance of this work in Jōdo traditional teaching. Contents: A record by the monk Seikaku (Shōkaku) 聖覺, disciple of Genkū, of the great debate known as Ōhara mondō 大原問答, which took place in or about 1186 at the Shōrin'in 勝林院 at Ōhara, between Genkū as exponent of Jōdo teachings, and scholar-monks from Nara and Hieizan. A key work in Jōdo Buddhist literature.
Ōhara dangi kikigaki shō 大原談義聞書抄
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- Reference
- GB 59 16218.d.22
- Dates of Creation
- [1615-1644]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Good, apart from faint water-stains on ff. 1-7 and 28-31. Impression: Printed from slightly worn type. The form of script and overall hanshiki are archaistic and somewhat crude, both in engraving and impression, suggesting provincial workmanship. In appearance, the printing is reminiscent of a much earlier period, c. mid-Muromachi. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Hōrei bunko 寶玲文庫 (ex-libris Frank Hawley), on mikaeshi. Black bookplate, 三柳居杉浦氏藏書記 (ex-libris Sugiura Kyūen 杉浦丘園), pasted on front cover and inner back cover. Manuscript notes: A few textual headnotes on fol. 2b. Okurigana, kaeriten and sidelines added in black ink c. Kan'ei period.
Scope and Content
Access Information
Not Public Record(s)
Unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Acquired from Kōbunsō, 9 June 1972.
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 4. Jōdo, jōdo shinshū sects 浄土・浄土真宗
Bibliography
Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 1, p. 351; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 102, 127, 349; Jōdokyō kokatsuji-ban zuroku 浄土教古活字版図録. 32, pl. 29-30; Kōbunsō kokatsuji-ban mokuroku 弘文荘古活字版目録, p. 304. (Both of the latter two refer to the present copy.)