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The Early Komusō-related Texts
- from c. 1628 or c. 1640? to c. 1750
To be presented in more detail and further commented on ...
The Old Capital: Kansai/Kyōto Area Related Texts:
The New Capital: Kantō/Edo/Tōkyō Area Related Texts:
The Island Shikoku:
The Island Kyūshū:
Datable texts:
1628?: Possibly, a mysterious document from the Tosa Province.
Possibly created during the 1640s?:
Butsu-gen / Hotoke-goto(ba), "Buddha Words", or: "Buddhist Sayings"?
The "Fuke Sect", Fuke-shū, 普化宗, is not mentioned in the document.
1646: Letter from the Rinzai Zen Abbot Isshi Bunshu/Monju
(1608-1646) to a komusō named Sandō Mugetsu (no dates).
The appellation Fuke-shū, 普化宗, is not
mentioned in the letter.
1664: Music treatise about "strings & bamboo" by Nakamura Sōsan, Kyōto.
Fuke-shū is not mentioned in the treatise.
1677 (Enpō 5, 6th month): Reihō-ji document of order rules
with 17 paragraphs.
Fuke-shū is not mentioned in these order rules.
1678, January 11 (Enpō 5, 12th month, 18th day): "Memorandum"
with 3 paragraphs, apparently issued by the so called
Jisha-bugyō,
the shōgun's governmental Temples & Shrines
Magistrates,addressed to Komusō shoha, 虚無僧諸派,
"The Various Komusō Factions".
Fuke-shū is not mentioned in this memorandum.
1687: Reihō-ji 11 paragraph document: Document is signed
Fuke Zen-shū sō-honji Reihō-ji. 普化禅宗 惣本寺 鈴法寺,
"Reihō-ji, Mother Temple of The Entire Fuke Zen Sect".
1694: Myōan-ji document, the oldest reliable known.
Signed Komusō honji, 虚無僧本寺 京都虚霊山 明暗寺, Komusō
mother temple, Kyōto Kyorei-zan, Myōan-ji.
Fuke-shū is not mentioned.
1703 & 1705: Two formal documents regarding and confirming the Myōan-ji c/o Kōkoku-ji "mother-child" temple relationship.
Fuke-shū is not mentioned.
1722: Reihō-ji ordinance.
Fuke shūmon, 普化禅宗, is mentioned in the very first paragraph
in the available reprint version.
1731: Reihō-ji ordinance.
Fuke shūmon is mentioned in the very first paragraph.
Probably created no later than a. 1700?:
Kyotaku denki, "Recorded Tradition of the Imitated Bell"
(in Kyotaku denki kokujikai, Kyōto, 1795).
Fuke-shū is not mentioned in the Kyotaku denki itself.
1735: Kyorei-zan engi narabi ni sankyorei-fu ben.
Fuke-shū is not mentioned.
1752 (not 1659!): A Myōan-ji document with 23 paragraphs.
Fuke-shū is not mentioned.
So far Undatable Text (as of March. 2017):
As late as 1740? (acc. to Yamato Hōmei).
Keichō no okitegaki (as late as 1740, or, in 1792?).
Fuke-shū is not mentioned.
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