釋智匠
Shì Zhìjiàng, a Buddhist monk active under the Chén 陳 dynasty (557–589) of the Southern Dynasties, known almost exclusively as the compiler of the Gǔjīn yuèlù 古今樂錄 (KR1i0023), traditionally dated to the second year of the Guāngdà 光大 reign (568 CE) on the authority of the Sòng catalog Zhōngxīng shūmù 中興書目 and Wáng Yīnglín’s 玉海. No biographical entry for him survives in the standard histories or in the Buddhist hagiographical compendia; he leaves no other extant work.
His name is transmitted in several variants: 《太平御覽》 cites him as 智象, which Mǎ Guóhàn 馬國翰 (in Yùhán shānfáng jíyì shū 玉函山房輯佚書) explained as a phonetic corruption of 智匠; Wú Zēng’s 能改齋漫錄, Chéng Dàchāng’s 演繁露 and Hú Zǐ’s 漁隱叢話 give the inverted form 匠智, evidently transmission errors. The form 釋智匠 is the one preserved in Guō Màoqiàn’s 樂府詩集, which is the principal medieval witness to the work.
The original Gǔjīn yuèlù survives only in fragments. Wáng Mó 王謨 reconstructed it for the Hàn Wèi yíshū chāo 漢魏遺書鈔 (jīngyì erji 經翼二集) in the Qīng, and Mǎ Guóhàn produced a parallel reconstruction in the Yùhán shānfáng jíyì shū. The textus used in the Kanripo edition (KR1i0023) is one such fragment-collection drawn from Tàipíng yùlǎn, Hòu Hàn shū commentary, Chūxuéjì, Lùshǐ hòujì and other later compilations.