Danrin junroki [Guidebook to 18 True Pure Land School Buddhist Educational Temples in the Kanto...
Folding color-printed woodblock map. 49 folding leaves. Oblong 8vo, orig. blue wrappers, block-printed title label on upper cover (label partly defective), new stitching. Edo: Izumiya Shinpachi, [1821].
First edition and rare; WorldCat locates only one copy, in Japan. Danrin is a temple that served as a college and institute to instruct Buddhist priests. In the early 17th century, the Tokugawa shogunate recognized 18 temples of the Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land School) as danrin:
–Musashi Province (today it incorporates Tokyo metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture & part of Kanagawa Prefecture): Zojo-ji (Minato, Tokyo); Denzuin (Bunkyo, Tokyo); Reigan-ji (Koto, Tokyo);... More