『水滸傳』石渠閣補刻本本文の硏究

Abstract

Stone Canal Pavilion Printing House 石渠閣 (Shiquge) repaired edition of Shuihu Zhuan, it has been exposed to many praise and censure. The main causes of this issue are: (1) There is a doubt about the authenticity of the preface of this book, by Tiandu Waichen 天都外臣. (2) This edition has a lot of repaired parts. Formerly we had only one book left in National Library of China 中國國家圖書館, so it was difficult to investigate this edition. Now that, we became able to read the book in Professor Hirata Shôji's 平田昌司 library, we can inspect the Stone Canal Pavilion Printing House repaired edition. It has been considered that the preface by Tiandu Waichen is an apocryphal work, but when we examine the contents, it is judged that it is more likely to be the original. About the repaired parts, considering its style, vocabulary, and sentences, we can judge that it copied the original faithfully. So it can be said that studying the Stone Canal Pavilion Printing House repaired edition as a basically reliable text is no problem. The text of the Stone Canal Pavilion Printing House repaired edition is about the same with the text of Rongyutang 容與堂 edition, but as a result of detailed investigation, it is obviously older than Rongyutang edition, ranking between Rongyutang edition and the incomplete text of Jiajing 嘉靖 edition. And it contains some sentences which other editions do not have, and they are only in Stone Canal Pavilion Printing House repaired edition. So, Stone Canal Pavilion Printing House repaired edition has the oldest text among the editions Shuihu zhuan, and it is particularly meaningful with the investigation of the Shuihu zhuan.