Rokuen Diary - Rokuon Nichiroku

This is the general term for the diaries of the successive abbots of Rokuon-ji Temple in Kyoto. The writers were Yokokawa Keisan, Keijo Shurin, Baishuku Horin, Yusetsu Zuiho, and Kinshu Kentaku, and span the years from 1487 (Chokyo 1) to 1651 (Keian 4), including draft documents and remnants of poems and essays. There are 78 volumes in total. The successive abbots of Rokuon-ji Temple were known as soroku (soroku) and were in charge of monk affairs, so the diaries contain detailed records of all aspects of monk affairs, including the appointment and dismissal of abbots of Gozan-ha temples and temple land issues. Most of the diaries were handwritten originals, but most were destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake. The Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo produced a mimeograph of the documents that had been kept at Saiwai Jishi-in Temple in 1887 (Meiji 20), and based on this, the diary was compiled and published in six volumes between 1934 and 1937 (Showa 9-12). Since it was published during a period when the Soroku, whose real power had been usurped by the Inryo office, were once again in charge of Buddhist affairs, it has the characteristics of an official diary and is a valuable historical document for learning about Japan-Ming trade and the social situation in Kyoto from the end of the Muromachi period to the early Edo period.

[Hiromi Tanaka]

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京都にある相国寺(しょうこくじ)鹿苑院主歴代の日記の総称。筆者は横川景三(おうせんけいさん)、景徐周麟(けいじょしゅうりん)、梅叔法霖(ばいしゅくほうりん)、有節瑞保(ゆうせつずいほ)、昕叔顕啅(きんしゅくけんたく)らで、その年代は1487年（長享1）から1651年（慶安4）に及び、文書案や詩章残篇(ざんぺん)なども含む。78冊。歴代の鹿苑院主は僧録と通称し僧事を管掌したため、五山派官寺の住持の任免や寺領問題をはじめ、あらゆる僧事が詳しく記されている。そのほとんどが自筆原本であったが、大部分が関東大震災で焼失した。さいわい慈氏(じし)院にあったものを1887年（明治20）に東大史料編纂(へんさん)所が謄写本を作製しており、これを基に1934～37年（昭和9～12）に6巻に編纂して刊行された。蔭凉(いんりょう)職に実権を奪われていた僧録がふたたび僧事を担当した時期で、公用日記の性格が強く、日明(にちみん)貿易や室町末期から江戸初期の京都の社会情勢を知るうえでも貴重な史料である。

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