「妙法蓮華經玄義」,「法華文勾記」의 刻手 연구

Abstract

This research is to try to observe the feature and meaning of two books, Myobeopyeonhwagyeonghyeonui, Beophwamungugi with name of engravers. Research result could be summarized as follows: 1) it is about 2/3 for the engravers' name entered in margin of leaves, 2) the others are printed by supplement plates, 3) this fact means that original plates and economic situation were not good, 4) between the original plates and supplemental plates, there was a common feature like engravers' name, font, space of lines, outside line, etc., 5) and that means two books were published by similar body in almost same time, same place, 6) so many engravers were participated to large publishing project, not to printing only two books, 7) there was a difference to each ability of engravers carves the letters on the woodblock, 8) each engraver had his own style and ideal font.