自我偈 Big Accordion Book of Hokekyou or Lotus Sutra printed in Edo Era 28cm 法華経 折り本 江戸期 刊本 07

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A page from a Lotus Sutra folding manuscript, printed in the Edo period. The Hiragana written to the right of the Kanji characters contains the Onyomi ("Chinese sound") and the Katakana letters to the left contains the Kanbun translations. This ORIHON, or traditional accordion book in Japan, is one of my collection. Publication of year is unknown, but obviously used by buddhist priests in Edo era. The size is 28cm tall. They wrote KANA letters on either side of each KANJI character; HIRAGANA letters written along right side of KANJI shows how to read it on ONYOMI or Chinese-derived character reading, and KATAKANA letters and marks written in left side shows how to read them on KANBUN-KUNDOKU or traditional translating system for reading classical Chinese as if it were old Japanese language. I reliesed this photo as public domain, please use this freely. Public domain Public domain false false I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain . This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose , without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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