Alternative reading of title: Kyodō oshō goroku. Author/compiler: Miao Yuan 妙源. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keichō / Genna period, c. 1600-24] . No colophon. Description: 4 kan, 7 satsu. 31 x 21.2 cm. Fukurotoji. Movable type. Printing frame 21 x 15 cm. Double-line borders surrounding text area, with 'flower petal' fishtail design on hanshin. Kanbun text, with manuscript kunten in black and reading marks in red added in maki 1-5. 8 lines to page, 17 characters to line. Original covers missing; replaced in recent times by covers of rough white paper, each with handwritten gedai: Kidōroku 虚堂錄 + satsu no. Title from naidai at head of contents list in maki 1. In a blue chitsu case. Hashiragaki and foliation: various. Edition: The second edition of this work to be published in Japan, printed from movable type in Keichō or Genna period. Example of a bōkoku-bon 坊刻本. The earlier edition was a Gozan-ban, based on a Chinese Song (宋) edition, published in Shōwa 2 正和二年, 1313. (For details of this Gozan-ban, see GK, pp. 364-5.) Textually, the present edition is closely modelled on the Gozan-ban, ending with the same 6-line kango giving the date (Shōwa 2=1313) and original publisher's name. This kango ends as follows: ･･･ 正和癸丑開 ／ 爐日拙孫宗卓敬書 ／ 沙彌宗哲等施財開板. Contents: Collected sayings (goroku 語録) of the Chan Buddhist monk Zhiyu (宋) 智愚, also known as Xutang 虚堂, compiled in the Song period by Miaoyuan 妙源. In 3 kan (上, 中, 下) + supplementary maki (後録).
Kidō oshō goroku 虚堂和尚語錄 [虚堂和尚語録]
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or.74.c.15
- Dates of Creation
- [1600-1624]
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 7 volumes Condition: Fair to good. Urauchi repairs in a few places. Impression: Type slightly worn, with some thickening of strokes. Seals of ownership: Oblong red seal, Jōeiji 常栄寺 (Rinzai temple in Yamaguchi- ken) on first page of each satsu. Also brownish-red seal in form of a bronze vessel, reading Keinan 桂南, printed inkoku. Manuscript notes: Copious textual notes, red and black, both interlinear and in margins, up to beginning of satsu 4. In an early-Edo period hand.
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Acquisition Information
Acquired from Shibunkaku, 12 Dec. 1967.
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
Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, pp. 348, 789, pl. 786; Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 2, p. 229; Daitōkyū kinen bunko kichōsho kaidai 大東急記念文庫貴重書解題, vol. 2, pp. 136, 162, 180; Ōsaka furitsu toshokan-zō kisho kaidai mokuroku 大阪府立図書館蔵稀書解題目録, pp. 40-1.