Dai-hannyakyo Sutra in the collection of Nyoi-ji temple －An example of mixture of sutras in the late Heian period －

如意寺所蔵の大般若経　―平安時代後期の混合経の一例について―

如意寺の大般若経について、十二世紀前半の常隆寺経・中山寺経などの混合経であると二〇〇七年に開催した展覧会で解説した。奥書による概報であったが、その後、全巻にわたる調査の機会を得た。中山寺で書写された経巻はその一部が鎌倉時代後期までに、常隆寺で書写された経巻は高男寺、萬勝寺を経て室町時代後期から末期にかけて如意寺へ移り、他の平安時代後期の経巻も交え、一具の大般若経として整備された。その際、各巻の欠失部分について補写だけでなく、他の経巻の該当部分の料紙を切り貼りする手法も取られている。

It has been known for some time that the "Dai-hannya-kyo (Mahaparinirvana Sutra)" in the collection of Nyoi-ji temple (Hase town, Nishi ward, Kobe city) contains a mixture of sutras that were copied at Nakayama-dera temple (Takarazuka city) and Jyoryu-ji temple ruins (Minou-gun location unknown) in the first half of the 12th century.
In this survey, it was found that some of the sutras from Nakayama-dera temple were donated to Nyoi-ji temple in the late Kamakura period, and that the sutras from Jyoryu-ji temple were transferred to Nyoi-ji temple via Konan-ji temple ruins (Miki city) and Mansho-ji temple (Ono city) from the Muromachi latter period to the last years, and that the missing parts of each scroll were covered with paper from the matching parts of the other scrolls, and that these were arranged into a set of Daihannya-kyo with other sutra scrolls from the same period.