One full-page woodcut diagram & one woodcut in the text. Three vols. 43; 36; 39 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers with two orig. title slips, new stitching. [Japan]: Sōdōan 宗道菴, 1642.

First edition of this Buddhist work; it summarizes a book that was published in China in 1246 under the title Fozhi biqiu liu wu tu 佛制比丘六物圖 [Illustrations of the Six Personal Belongings of Monks Established by the Buddha]. Its author was the Song monk Yuanzhao 元照 (1048-1116). “He was primarily known as a Vinaya scholar, but also worked in the areas of Tiantai and Pure... More