Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars

1690–1898

John R. Bentley

• Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781939161840
  9781939161642
• eBook ISBN:
  9781942242840
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Asian Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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).

Table of contents

• i Half-Title Page
• iii Full Title Page
• v Dedication Page
• vi Copyright Page
• vii Contents
• ix Acknowledgments
• 1-24 Introduction
• 25 PART ONE Views on Poetry
• 26-44 Man'yo Daishoki | Keichu
• 45-68 Kokka Hachiron | Kada no Arimaro
• 69-82 Kokka Hachiron Yogon Shui | Kamo no Mabuchi
• 83-93 Kaiko | Kamo no Mabuchi
• 94-114 Man'yo Kaitsushaku to Shakurei | Kamo no Mabuchi
• 115-138 Ashikawa Obune | Motoori Norinaga
• 139-155 Man'yoshu Kogi Kogaku | Kamochi Masazumi
• 157 PART TWO Views on Literature
• 158-172 Shika Shichiron | Ando Tameakira
• 173-179 Bun'iko | Kamo no Mabuchi
• 180-211 Isonokami Sasamegoto | Motoori Norinaga
• 212-242 Tama no Ogushi | Motoori Norinaga
• 243 PART THREE Views on Scholarship
• 233-249 "Petition to Establish a School" | Kada no Azumamaro
• 250-264 Niimanabi | Kamo no Mabuchi
• 265-277 Niimanabi Iken | Kagawa Kageki
• 278-284 Goiko | Kamo no Mabuchi
• 285-308 Ashi Kari Yoshi | Ueda Akinari & Motoori Norinaga
• 309-333 Uiyamabumi | Motoori Norinaga
• 335 PART FOUR Views on Japan/Religion
• 336-357 Kokuiko | Kamo no Mabuchi
• 358-384 Shinto Dokugo | Ise Sadatake
• 385-399 Kokugoko | Motoori Norinaga
• 400-416 Naobi no Mitama | Motoori Norinaga
• 417-452 Kojiki-Den | Motoori Norinaga
• 453-461 Sandaiko | Hattori Nakatsune
• 462-498 Kodo Taii | Hirata Atsutane
• 499-544 Tama no Mihashira | Hirata Atsutane
• 545-578 Tsuki no Sakaki | Suzuki Masayuki
• 579-586 Bibliography
• 587-595 Index
• 597-602 Cornell East Asia Series List of Titles