Bunen Eika - Bunen Eiga

A collection of poems ordered by Emperor Taizong in 982 (the 7th year of the Rise of Taiping) in the early Song Dynasty of China to embellish the text of "Taiping". It has 1000 volumes. It was started by Song Bai and others, and it took many years to complete, with successive editors. The title was modeled after Xiao Tong's "Poetry Garden Yinghua" of the Liang Dynasty, and the content was intended to follow Xiao's "Wen Xuan", and it was intended to include the essence of poetry and prose from the Liang-Chen period to the Five Dynasties period of the Tang Dynasty. However, the selection ended up leaning heavily towards the Tang Dynasty, and it also wavered in the direction of comprehensiveness, and its literary position was weakened. Later, because it was handed down for a long time in manuscript form and errors occurred, Peng Shuxia and others proofread it under Zhou Bida (1126-1204) of the Southern Song Dynasty. This makes clear the significance of this rare resource, which contains the original text from the early Song dynasty that continues the collected version from the end of the Tang dynasty, as well as poetry and prose that were lost at the end of the Northern Song dynasty. It was reprinted by Hu Yixin in the Ming dynasty, but since it was based on an excerpt from the Zhou publication, the Beijing Zhonghua Book Bureau edition, which contains several volumes of the original publication, is somewhat superior. In Japan, early Ming manuscripts that predate the Hu editions are held in various institutions, providing a means of correcting errors in the Hu edition.

[Hideki Hanabusa]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

中国、宋(そう)初、982年（太平興国7）太宗(たいそう)が「太平」の文飾のために命じた詞華集。1000巻。宋白らによって始められ、編集者が交代しつつ、かなりの年月を費やして終了した。書名は梁(りょう)の蕭統(しょうとう)の『詩苑英華』に倣い、内容は蕭氏の『文選(もんぜん)』に続くものとし、梁陳から唐五代にわたる詩文の精華を収載すべく企図された。ただ結果的には選択が唐代に深く傾斜し、網羅の方向にも揺れ、文学的立場が薄れた。のち長く写本で伝えられて錯誤が生じたから、南宋の周必大(しゅうひつだい)（1126―1204）の下で彭叔夏(ほうしゅくか)らが校正した。ここに唐末集本を承(う)ける宋初の本文や、北宋末に失われた詩文を存する、たぐい少ない資料的意義が明らかとなった。明(みん)代に胡維新(こいしん)が翻刻したが、その拠(よ)るところが周氏刊本の抄写であったので、原刊の諸巻を含む北京(ペキン)中華書局印本がやや優れている。わが国では、胡刻に先んずる明初写本が諸機関に蔵せられ、胡本の錯誤を正すよすがを得ることができる。

［花房英樹］

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