Jogan Ceremony

Japanese: 貞観儀式 - じょうがんぎしき

A book of court ceremonies from the early Heian period. The author is unknown. The Catalogue of Legal Documents of Japan lists the compilations of the Kōnin Ceremonies, the Jōgan Ceremonies, and the Engi Ceremonies, each in 10 volumes, and these are called the Sandai Ceremonies. However, there are many inconsistencies in the compilations of the Kōnin and Engi ceremonies, and there are no surviving copies of either book (though the latter has a few lost passages). In contrast, there is a 10-volume edition of the Jōgan Ceremonies simply titled Ceremonies, which the 18th-century scholar of Japanese classics, Kada Arimitsu, named Jōgan Ceremonies. However, there is no record of the compilation in the Sandai Jitsuroku, and the current edition does not have a preface, and the names of government offices from the Jōgan period onwards are mixed in.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

平安前期の宮廷儀式書。撰者不詳。《本朝法家文書目録》に《弘仁儀式》《貞観儀式》《延喜儀式》各10巻の編目が載っており，これを三代儀式という。しかし，弘仁と延喜の儀式編目には矛盾が多く，両書の伝本もない(ただし，後者には逸文が数条ある)。それに対して貞観の儀式は，単に《儀式》と題する全10巻本があり，18世紀の国学者荷田在満がそれを《貞観儀式》と名づけた。ただし，《三代実録》に撰進の記事がみえず，現行本には序文もない反面，貞観以降の官司名が混入している。

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