THE KYOGYOSHINSHO PLUS COLLECTED WRITINGS ON SHIN BUDDHISM. TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE IN SLIPCASE [ASSOCIATION COPY]

SUZUKI, Daisetz Teitaro (Translator and Editor); Gutoku Shaku Shinran

Verlag: Published by Shinshu Otaniha - Edited by the Eastern Buddhist Society, Kyoto, Japan, 1973

Beschreibung

First and only edition of these two volumes. This is a RARE AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY having belonged to Mihoko Okamura, Daisetz Suzuki s longtime personal assistant from 1953 until Suzuki's death in 1966. Mihoko was a joint editor of this book along with Emyo Ito. Loosely laid in is a "With Compliments of The Eastern Buddhist Society" bookplate signed by Mihoko Okamura. She has also written her name with her Otani University, Kyoto address on the slipcase. Finely produced hardcovers bound in handmade Japanese paper known as kumohada ("cloud pattern"), to which a stain of persimmon juice has been applied. The paper was made from hemp with a small quantity of paper mulberry by master papermaker Heisaburo Iwano. The spine titles are printed on "Sekishu" paper, made of pure, unbleached paper mulberry by Masami Hishida. First volume (Collected Writings on Shin Buddhism) with frontispiece portrait of Daisetz Suzuki, Foreward by Keiji Nishitani, xv, 262 pp., 14 plates. Second volume (The Kyogyoshinsho: The Collection of Passages Expounding the True Teaching Living, Faith, and Realizing of the Pure Land) Foreward by Keiji Nishitani, xviii, 442 pp. Fine copies, clean and tight with the original publisher's clear plastic wrappers. Housed in the fine publisher's slipcase with printed paste-on paper label. Suzuki's rare and important translation of Shinran's major work plus Suzuki's important writings on Pure Land Buddhism. See photos. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 46721

Bibliografische Details

Titel: THE KYOGYOSHINSHO PLUS COLLECTED WRITINGS ON...

Verlag: Published by Shinshu Otaniha - Edited by the Eastern Buddhist Society, Kyoto, Japan

Erscheinungsdatum: 1973

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: First Edition.