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Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars - 1690-1898 (Paperback)
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Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars - 1690-1898 (Paperback)
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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).
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