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The study of Japanese history makes advances through the analysis of historical sources, and among these historical sources old documents occupy an important position. Old Documents of Japan is a collection of basic historical sources that, since the publication of the first volume in 1901, has continued to be compiled and published by the Historiographical Institute at the University of Tokyo. “Compile” in this case means to transcribe in standard non-cursive characters the texts of documents that are often difficult for people today to read and were written chiefly with writing brushes, and to add notes about people’s names, place-names, and, as best as possible, the estimated date of the document if it is undated. Through the publication of these documents, the series Old Documents of Japan aims to make them available to people who wish to utilize them. The Daitokuji Documents, constituting the 17th collection among Temple and Family Collections of Old Documents of Japan, brings together old documents preserved at Daitokuji, a temple in Murasakino, Kyoto, founded by Sōhō Myōchō (a.k.a. Daitō Kokushi), a Zen monk of the Kamakura period. The present volume is the first volume in a separate collection of documents held by Tokuzenji, a sub-temple of Daitokuji founded by Sōhō Myōchō’s