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The Three Treasures: A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe
Edward Kamens and Ethan Bushelle
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When the young Princess Sonshi became a Buddhist nun in the year 984, a scholar-official of the royal court was commissioned to create a guide to the Buddhist religion that would be accessible for her. He did so in the form of the illustrated works of fiction (monogatari) that appealed to women readers of her time and class. The text has survived in later manuscripts; the illustrations, if they ever existed, have not. This revised translation recreates Sonshi's experience of receiving this multimedia presentation, with illustrations selected to help contemporary readers visualize its content and essays that provide context on the religious and cultural experience of the author. The Three Treasures is a unique document that opens a window onto the world of Buddhist religious experience—especially for women—in high classical Japan, the time of Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book and Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Part 1: Study
One. A Short History of Sanbōe
Two. A Reading of Sanbōe
Three. Sanbōe and the Oratorical Arts of Devotional Liturgy
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Figure 20. Monks assembled in the Seiryōden for “The Debate in the Palace during the Royal Assembly for the Meager Feast” (“Misai e uchi no rongi,” as depicted in the Nenjū gyōji emaki scroll) (version recreated by Sumiyoshi Gyokei based on the lost Heian-period original, ca. 1661). Property of Tanaka Collection, Tokyo. Courtesy of Mr. Shigeru Tanaka and Chūō Kōron Shinsha.
Figure 27. The Lustration of the Buddha as observed in the Palace: detail from the Takatsukasa-bon version of the Nenjū gyōji emaki (a mid-Edo-period reconstruction of the lost Heian-period original.) Collection of Toshoryō Bunko. Courtesy of Kunaichō Shoryōbu.
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