Formative and Alternative Reading of Scripture: Ichij Kaneyoshi’s Interpretation of the Nihon shoki in Fifteenth-Century Japan

Tokumori Makoto

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Tokumori Makoto. Formative and Alternative Reading of Scripture: Ichij Kaneyoshi’s Interpretation of the Nihon shoki in Fifteenth-Century Japan[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(4): 671-683.

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Tokumori Makoto. Formative and Alternative Reading of Scripture: Ichij Kaneyoshi’s Interpretation of the Nihon shoki in Fifteenth-Century Japan[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(4): 671-683.

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Formative and Alternative Reading of Scripture: Ichij Kaneyoshi’s Interpretation of the Nihon shoki in Fifteenth-Century Japan

Tokumori Makoto

University of Tokyo

Received Date: 2019-05-08
Publish Date: 2021-03-09

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Abstract

The Nihon shoki, or Chronicles of Japan, was originally compiled in 720 as the official history of the origin of Japan and the imperial family. Since then, up to and including modern times, numerous recurring lectures and interpretations of the narrative have established it as an authoritative text. This paper focuses on Ichijō Kaneyoshi’s fifteenth-century interpretation of the text, titled Nihon shoki sanso. He provided a valuable contribution to the conception of the first two volumes of the Nihon shoki (named“The Age of the Gods” ) as self-sufficient world scripture through comparison with discourses of Buddhism, Confucianism, and other texts. Nevertheless, the retrospective approach to interpreting scripture adopted by the eighteenth-century scholar of the classics, Motoori Norinaga, constituted the mainstream approach to the Kojiki, another ancient narrative compiled in 712, as well as to the Nihon shoki. Kaneyoshi’s comparative reading of scripture remains unorthodox in studies of the Nihon shoki.
- Ichijō Kaneyoshi,
- interpretation,
- intertextuality,
- Kojiki,
- Nihon shoki,
- Nihon shoki sanso,
- Motoori Norinaga

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