Hon'yaku myōgishū
By: Hōun hen
Contributors: Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1628
Place of publication: Japan
Language: jpn
Subjects: Mahāvyutpatti; Early works to 1800; Glossaries, vocabularies; Buddhism; Sanskrit language; Terminology
Other titles: Hon'yaku; Mahāvyutpatti.
Work titles: Fan yi ming yi ji
Notes: Caption title.

Postscript by a Japanese, dated Kan'ei 5 [1628] (crossed out with black ink).

Within single border (22.0 x 17.3 cm.); text in 12 vertical lines.

On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji).

LC set wormed, with loss of text.

LC set bound in western style (yōsōbon) in 2 v.; in process of binding, original covers probably removed.

Asakawa collection (AUG 19 1907)

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten, v. 10, p. 214 (Hon'yaku myōgishū, 7-kan or 20-kan; by Hōun; Kan'ei 5 kan).

Explanatory text in Chinese with Japanese reading marks; including Sanskrit in Chinese characters.