Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars

1690–1898

John R. Bentley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

612 Seiten

2017
Cornell University East Asia Program (Verlag)
978-1-939161-64-2 (ISBN)

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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).

John R. Bentley is Professor of Japanese at Northern Illinois University.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2018
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1361 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
ISBN-10	1-939161-64-9 / 1939161649
ISBN-13	978-1-939161-64-2 / 9781939161642
Zustand	Neuware