Variant title: Kongō hannyagyō kaidai 金剛般若經開題 [金剛般若経開題]. Variant title: Kongōkyō kaidai 金剛經開題 [金剛経開題]. Author/compiler: Kūkai 空海, founder of the Shingon sect, 774-835, also known as Kōbō Daishi 弘法大師. Imprint: N.p. [Kōyasan] , Kōan 3,1280. Kanki on last folio verso reads: 弘安參年庚辰六月十七日沙門覺胤書,. Description: 1 kan, 1 jō. ff. [15] , unnumbered. Apparently incomplete (one or more folios missing). 25.4 x 15.6 cm. Bound in detchō style. Blockprint. Printing frame 21.5 x 12.5 cm. Mixed ganpi and kōzo paper, printed on both sides. No borders or vertical rules. Kanbun text, with a few siddham characters on ff. 1a and 1b. Handwritten kunten in black katakana and some kaeriten in red. 7 lines to page, 17 characters to line. Mid-brown covers, old but probably not original. No title slip. Contained in box with manuscript title: 金剛経開題. Title from naidai at head of text. Bidai preceding kanki: Kongō hannyagyō kaidai 金剛般若經開題. Edition: Kōya-ban. This is the only pre-Edo period edition. A later edition was published in Hōei 3 (1706). The monk Kakuin 覺胤, whose name appears as copyist in the kanki of the present edition, was a calligrapher responsible for writing the hanshita of other Buddhist works published at Kōyasan 高野山. Contents: A short interpretation, from the Shingon standpoint, of the main teachings of the Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra (金剛般若波羅蜜經), itself a digest of the essentials of the Mahāprajñā-pāramitā-sūtra (大般若波羅蜜多經).
Kongō hannya haramitsukyō kaidai 金剛般若波羅蜜經開題 [金剛般若波羅蜜経開題]
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or.64.b.8
- Dates of Creation
- 1280
- Language of Material
- Japanese
- Physical Description
- 1 volume Condition: Fair. Some brown water stains and unrepaired worm damage. Impression: Atozuri. Judging by evidence of wear on the blocks, printed towards the end of the Kamakura period, c. early 14th century. Seals of ownership: None, other than Getsumeisō 月明莊, seal of Kōbunsō, on fol. 15b. Manuscript notes: Reading marks as noted above, and brief marginal notes on ff. 1a and 13a.
Scope and Content
Access Information
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Unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Acquired from Kōbunsō, 15 March 1974.
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 2. Basic mahayana scriptures 主要大乗経典
Bibliography
Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 仏書解説大辞典, vol. 3, p. 509; Kōya-ban no kenkyū 高野板之研究, pp. 533, 654 and passim; Kōya-ban eisui 高野板英萃, pl. 14; Kokatsujiban no kenkyū 古活字版の研究, p. 37; Kōbunsō kohanpon mokuroku 弘文荘古版本目録, pp. 30-1.