Gunsho Ruiju

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The Gunsho Ruijū ( Japanese 群 書 類 從 , modern : 群 書 類 従 , German "classified collection of scripts", GR) is probably the most important collection of Japanese historical sources .

collection

Endpaper (Meiji 34)

The monumental collection, which seeks to cover all the historical works published after the official Reichannals were completed , was started by the blind Hanawa Hokiichi ( 塙 保 己 一 ; 1746–1821) with the support of Bakufu .

The first series of the product of forty years of work appeared in 1819. It is divided into 25 subject groups with the full texts of 1270 works. A modern print edition appeared in 19 volumes from 1894–1912. The collection is indexed bibliographically in Gunsho Kaidai (30 volumes), which appeared from 1953. The collection served as the basis for his translations by the Japanologist Hermann Bohner .

A second series, edited by Hokiichi's son, Hanawa Tadatomi ( 塙 忠 宝 ), appeared from 1821 onwards. Under the title Zoku Gunsho Ruijū, it reproduces the texts of another 2103 titles. As a further addition, two Zoku Zoku Gunsho Ruijū appeared . The first with 16 works was printed in 5 volumes in 1903-4. The second appeared in 1906-9 and lists 304 sources in 16 volumes.

Another source collection started by Hanawa Tadatomi is the Dai-Nippon-shiryō , which was published from 1901 by the Imperial University of Tokyo . Its purpose is to provide documentation of the thousand-year history of the empire from 887 to 1867.

Print editions and supplements

  • Gunsho-ruiju . Tokyo 1894-, Keizai Zasshisha
  • Shinkō Gunsho-ruijū . Tokyo 1936, Naigai Shoseki, 2 volumes
  • Gunsho-ruijū seizoku bunrui sōmoku . Tokyo 1959, 410 pages (classified catalog of the main and supplementary collections)
  • Mozume Takami (Ed.): Gunsho sakuin 群 書 索引 . Tokyo 1928, Kobunko Kankōkai (Concordance), 3 volumes
  • by the publisher founded for this purpose: Zoku-gunsho-ruijū Kanseikai ( 續 群 書 類 從 完成 會 )
    • Zoku-Gunsho-ruijū . Tokyo 1923–30, 72 volumes
    • Gunsho-kaidai ( 群 書 解題 ). Tokyo 1960-7, 22 vol. In 30 volumes (summaries of the works in the GR and Z-GR)
    • Gunsho kaidai sōmokuji ( 群 書 解題 総 目次 ). Tokyo 1967 (index, 1960 edition)

Web link

The full texts of numerous volumes of the Zoku-Gunsho-ruijū and Zoku-Zoku-Gunsho-ruijū are available on archive.org .