ZUZOUSHOU　図像抄

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Selected Iconography, a late Heian compendium on Buddhist iconography. Also called JIKKANSHOU 十巻抄 (Selections in Ten Chapters) and SON'YOUSHOU 尊容抄 (Selection of Sacred Figures). ZUZOUSHOU includes 142 illustrations of sacred images and mandalas *mandara 曼荼羅, arranged by iconographic types and excerpts from sutras and other sacred texts. Although the original was lost, there are numerous extant copies, some of which include colored pictures. The postscript to the Daigoji 醍醐寺 version, the earliest copy made in 1193, tells that Byoudoubou Yougon 平等房永厳 (d.1151) of Touji 東寺 (Kyoto) presented the work to the emperor in Houen 保延 6 (1140). However the postscript to another version in Daigoji made in Bun'ei 文永 era (1264-75) tells that the true editor is Shoujoubou Ejuu 勝定房恵什, whose name is also quoted in *BESSON ZAKKI 別尊雑記 (1170's) as an editor of ZUZOUSHOU. The Jourakuji 常楽寺 version (1226) is reproduced in DAINIHON BUKKYOU ZENSHO 大日本仏教全書, while the Entsuuji 円通寺 version (1309/10) is included in TAISHOU SHINSHUU DAIZOUKYOU 大正新脩大蔵経.

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