Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars : 1690-1898 / translated and annotated by John R. Bentley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bentley, John R., Author.

Contributor:

Bentley, John R., translator.

Series:

Cornell East Asia Series ; 184

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kokugaku.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University East Asia Program, [2017]

Summary:

Kokugaku "national study" is an academic field of study that spans a number of disciplines, including philology, poetry, literature, linguistics, history, religion, and philosophy. It began as a movement to recapture a sense of Japanese uniqueness, by focusing on Japanese poetic and linguistic elements found in the earliest surviving texts. As the movement grew, there was an attempt to separate native religious elements from Buddhist elements. This expanded to a vigorous attempt to weed out Confucian (and by extension anything "Chinese") elements from native elements. This began as an investigation into the earliest anthology, Man'yoshu, which some Kokugaku scholars argued preserved a pristine picture of the "true heart" of the ancients. Kokugaku matured under the tutelage of Kamo no Mabuchi and Motoori Norinaga, and expanded to include literary, linguistic, and historical analysis. With the death of Norinaga the philosophy of the movement fractured, and under Hirata native religious elements were amplified, with an advance toward nationalism. This anthology contains 26 essays by 13 influential Kokugaku scholars, covering roughly two centuries of thought, from 1690 down to the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The volume is arranged according to four subjects: poetry, literature, scholarship, and religion/Japan (as a state).

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Part One Views on Poetry

Man’yō daishōki Keichū, 1690

Kokka hachiron Kada no Arimaro, 1742

Kokka hachiron yogon shūi Kamo no Mabuchi, 1742

Kaikō Kamo no Mabuchi, 1760

Man’yō kaitsūshaku to shakurei Kamo no Mabuchi, 1749

Ashiwake obune Motoori Norinaga, 1756

Man’yōshū kogi “Kogaku” Kamochi Masazumi, 1858

Part Two Views on Literature

Shika shirchiron Andō Tameakira, 1703

Bun’ikō Kamo no Mabuchi, ca. 1764

Isonokami sasamegoto Motoori Norinaga, 1763

Tama no ogushi Motoori Norinaga, 1796

Part Three Views on Scholarship

“Petition to Establish a School” Kada no Azumamaro, ca. 1728

Niimanabi Kamo no Mabuchi, 1765

Niimanabi iken Kagawa Kageki, 1811

Goikō Kamo no Mabuchi, ca. 1768

Ashi kari yoshi Ueda Akinari and Motoori Norinaga, 1787

Uiyamabumi Motoori Norinaga, 1798

Part Four Views on Japan/Religion

Kokuikō Kamo no Mabuchi, 1765

Shintō dokugo Ise Sadatake, 1782

Kokugōkō Motoori Norinaga, 1787

Naobi no mitama Motoori Norinaga, 1771

Kojiki-den Motoori Norinaga, 1798

Sandaikō Hattori Nakatsune, 1791

Kodō taii Hirata Atsutane, 1811

Tama no mihashira Hirata Atsutane, 1812

Tsuki no sakaki Suzuki Masayuki, ca. 1867

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781942242840

1942242840

OCLC:

1013853997