Gēnběn dàhéshàng zhēnjì cèzǐ děng mùlù 根本大和尚真跡策子等目錄
A Catalog of the Authentic-Trace Notebooks etc. of the Foundational Great Master attributed to Saichō 最澄 (767–822)
About the work
A single-juan Japanese Tendai-school catalog of authograph (zhēnjì 真跡 = “authentic trace”) notebook materials of the Foundational Great Master (gēnběn dàhéshàng 根本大和尚) — almost certainly Saichō 最澄, the foundational master of Japanese Tendai. The Kanripo catalog meta does not specify an author, but the title’s “Foundational Great Master” wording and the 804–822 dating bracket (Saichō’s Tang return through his death) align the text with Saichō’s circle. Preserved at T55 no. 2162.
Abstract
The work documents the autograph manuscript-notebooks (cèzǐ 策子, “small bound notebooks” in Japanese-Heian convention) and other materials associated with Saichō. notBefore = 805, notAfter = 822. Catalog dynasty 日本.
The work is one of the principal early-Heian Japanese Tendai documentary materials, supplementing the canonical importation catalogs (KR6s0105–KR6s0106) with notebook-and-personal-document materials.
Translations and research
See KR6s0105 for general references on Saichō.