• Kaun kuyō giki (The fire hūṃ offering ritual)
    火𤙖供養儀軌

Uniform title:
  • Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Mahāvairocanasūtra. Japanese
Contributor:
  • Śubhākarasiṁha, 637-735
  • 善無畏, 637-735
  • Sorimachi, Shigeo
  • 反町茂雄
Publisher:
  • [Japan] : [publisher not identified], Gan'ei gannen [1118]
  • [Japan] : [publisher not identified], 元永元年[1118]
Extent:
  • 1 volume (22 leaves) ; 18.1×15.1 cm
Format:
Description:
  • Detchōsō, Tsutsumi-byōshi.
  • 粘葉装, 包み表紙.
  • Texts written with "Oshikai."
  • Texts written with "押界."
  • Manuscript.
  • Caption title.
  • Unicode for a character "un" in title: U+24656.
  • Within no borders, text in 7 vertical lines.
  • Housed in a case.
  • On cover: 勢[chō].
  • Ceal on leaf 21: 月明荘 (owner seal of Shigeo Sorimachi)
  • "元永元年八月十三日書"--leaf 21.
Subject:
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Curator's notes:

  • Classical Chinese, with Japanese reading marks
    Japan, 1118, paper

    The book form called detchō shown here was occasionally used for a few centuries, but never became standard. With its double-sided pages glued together at the back, and folios also glued together two-by-two along a small strip between them, the form looks somewhat like a codex without its covers or sewn binding. A similar form has been found in Dunhuang, and Western influence can be imagined. The book contains handwritten instructions on how to perform the Buddhist huṃ ritual.

    East Asian Library Special Collections, BQ1873.J3 T75 1118

    For further reading

    Tanaka Kei 田中敬. Detchōkō: kochōsō to yamatotoji 粘葉考: 蝴蝶装と大和綴. Tōkyō: Hayakawa Tosho, 1979 (or. 1932).

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