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Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars: 1690-1898

Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars: 1690-1898

Bentley, John R.

Hardcover

Series: Cornell East Asia, Book 184

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1939161649
ISBN13: 9781939161642
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Program
Published: Dec 31 2017
Pages: 500
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.40 Width: 8.90 Depth: 6.20
Language: English
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'yōshū, 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).

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