A Study of Styles and Materials used in Nichiren's Letters and Works

日人(1222-1282)是日本佛教主要教派之一的日人教派的创始祭司。他的许多信件和作品仍然保留着原来的形式。在这项研究中，我们试图积累关于这些原创文字的基本数据，关于书写板的材料和大小以及它们今天是如何安装的。对于资料的收集，我们集中在日仁原著中的主要作品，撇开了一些我们无法直接获取的资料。此外，我们还试图从今天的保存状况中收集资料，以恢复其文字的原貌。至于对日人文字的文献学研究，直到今天，关于文体(即书板的类型和大小)的研究以及纸的使用与内容的关系的研究还没有得到应有的重视。此外，即使是日仁笔下人物大小这样的基本数据，到目前为止也没有得到研究。因此，我们对日人的原创文字进行了纸上的研究，建立了日人原著的基础数据库，与同时代的大师信然、和能相比，日人留下了大量的原创作品。因此，即使从古文字学的角度来看，本研究也可以为当代其他宗教大师的原著研究做出很大贡献。

Nichiren (1222 - 1282) is the founder priest of Nichiren Sect, one of the major Japanese Buddhist denominations. Many of his letters and works are still preserved in their original forms. In this study, we attempted at accumulating fundamental data on such original writings, regarding the materials and sizes of writing pads and how they are mounted today. For the collection of data, we concentrated on the major works among Nichiren's original writings, leaving aside some materials that we don't have direct access. Further, from today's preserved condition, we attempted at collecting data for reconstructing original condition of his writings.As for the philological study of Nichiren's writing till today, the study of the style (I.e., types of writing pads and their size) and of the relationship between the usage of paper and the contents has not been paid proper attention. Moreover, even the fundamental data like the size of the characters in Nichiren's writing have not been studied so far. Therefore, we researched Nichiren's original writing paper by paper, and we made a kind of fundamental database on Nichiren's original writings.Comparing to contemporary masters like Shinran and Honen, Nichiren left enormous amount of original writings. Therefore, even in paleographical terms, the present study can contribute in great deal to the study of original writings of other contemporary religious masters.