About the Shogozo Scrolls
Shogozo scrolls is a general term for the ancient Buddhist sutras housed in the Shogozo repository for sutra manuscripts located in the Sonshoin (尊勝院), a sub-temple of Nara’s Todaiji (東大寺). The scrolls are a collection of historical resources consisting of 4,960 hand-copied and block-printed sutras, ranging from Sui and Tang scripts to texts dating from the Nara period to the North and South Dynasties era.
In 1893 the scrolls were presented to the imperial family, along with the repository, and are currently managed by the Shosoin (正倉院) Trea¬sure House office of the Imperial Household Agency. Nowhere else can such a huge cache of ancient Buddhist sutras be found in a single location, preserved in such excellent condition, and together the scrolls constitute a priceless resource for researchers in a range of fields including Buddhist studies, history, Japanese language, and calligraphy.

About the Full-Color Digital Edition
The Shogozo scrolls have not been reworked and reprinted in type, and strictly-controlled access makes it extremely difficult to study/view the originals. This MARUZEN-YUSHODO Full-Color Digital Edition on Discs is the only publication providing access to their content. The scrolls have been photographed sheet by sheet, with the 1st to 4th stage releases done on color microfilm, and the 5th photographed using a digital scanner-camera.
The media employed (CD-R for the first two stages, then DVD for the remainder) incorporate three types of image: navigable images for scrolling; images that fit top and bottom of the scroll on the screen, and intricately detailed images, allowing the most suitable version to be retrieved as required.
White guiding marks (白書) on the scrolls have also been reproduced to a very high level of quality, making this a hugely beneficial resource for the study of kuntengo (訓点語) diacritical language as well.