Kyuchosho - Kyuchosho

Japanese: 汲冢書 - きゅうちょうしょ

This ancient book was obtained by Bu Jun, a man from Ji Commandery (Henan Province) in China, during the Western Jin Dynasty, when he robbed the tomb of a Wei king from the Warring States period. Scholars such as Xun Qiyong (?-289) changed the characters of the bamboo slips to those of the time and organized them. It is said that there were originally a large number of bamboo slips, but only a few remain today, such as the Mu Tianzi Biography and the (ancient) Bamboo Annals (which were also destroyed and restored). The Yi Zhou Book is also called the Ji Zhong Zhou Book, but it is not believed to have come from Ji Zhong. The year it was excavated differs between 279 (Xianning 5) and 281 (Taikang 2) in the Annals and Prologue of the Book of Jin and Du Yu's Preface to the Spring and Autumn Classics, and there are also theories that it was excavated from the tomb of Wei, such as that of King Xiang or that of King Anli.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，西晋時代，汲郡(河南省)の人，不準が戦国時代の魏王の墓を盗掘して得た古書。竹簡に記されていたものを，荀勖（じゆんきよく）(？‐289)らの学者が当時の字体に改め，整理を加えた。元来は大量の竹簡があったとされるが，現在に伝わるのは《穆天子伝》《(古本)竹書紀年》(これもいったんは滅びて復元された)などごくわずか。《逸周書》は《汲冢周書》とも呼ばれるが，汲冢から出たものではないとされる。なおこれが出土した年については，《晋書》の本紀と伝や杜預《春秋経伝集解》後序などで，279年(咸寧5)から281年(太康2)まで差があり，また出土した墓についても魏の襄王のものとする説と安釐王のものとする説がある。

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