Dai Nihon shi

Dai Nihon shi (大日本史 ), which istranslatedin various sources as "History of Greater Japan " or "Great History of Japan", is amulti-volume literary work on the history of Japan writtenin Classical Chinese . It was started in 1657 during the Edo period by Tokugawa Mitsukuni and was decisively shaped by him. After his death, the work was continued by the Mito-Tokugawa and completed in 1906 during the Meiji period .

construction

The history work begins with Jimmu , the legendary first emperor of Japan before the Kofun period , and covers the first hundred emperors up to Go-Komatsu after the unification of the north and south courts in 1392. The complete work consists of 397 volumes, which in four main areas are divided:

Main annals ( honki 本紀 ), 73 volumes
Biographies ( retsuden 列伝 ), 170 volumes
Essays ( shi 志 ), 126 volumes
Tables ( hyō 表 ), 28 volumes

meaning

Monument in Mito, where the Shōkō-kan was from 1698

The book is one of the main academic works of the Edo period and produced its own schools of thought, the so-called Mito and Koku schools . Tokugawa Mitsukuni created an "Institute for History and Future Research" ( 彰考館 Shōkō-kan ) for the compilation . A total of 130 scholars are said to have been involved in the writing, including Aizawa Seishisai . The work was heavily influenced by Confucianism , especially the Neo-Confucianism of Zhu Xi . In the early days, scholars of Chinese Taoism , Indo-Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Shinto were also involved.

literature

Herschel Webb: What Is the Dai Nihon Shi? In: The Journal of Asian Studies . tape 19 , no. January 2 , 1960, p. 135-149 , doi : 10.2307 / 2943545 (English).

Web links

Wikisource: 大日本史 - Full text (Chinese)

Full text miko.org (Chinese)
Digitized (chinese)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Klaus Kracht : Intellectual history of early modernity . In: Klaus Kracht, Markus Rüttermann (Hrsg.): Grundriss der Japanologie (= IZUMI: Sources, studies and materials on the culture of Japan . Volume 7 ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04371-7 , pp. 163 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bernhard Scheid: Tokugawa Mitsukunis Great History of Japan. In: Religion-in-Japan: A Web Handbook. University of Vienna, September 20, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2017 .
↑ Photo of the information board for the Shokokan

[grundriss-1] Klaus Kracht : Intellectual history of early modernity . In: Klaus Kracht, Markus Rüttermann (Hrsg.): Grundriss der Japanologie (= IZUMI: Sources, studies and materials on the culture of Japan . Volume 7 ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04371-7 , pp. 163 .

[wien-2] Bernhard Scheid: Tokugawa Mitsukunis Great History of Japan. In: Religion-in-Japan: A Web Handbook. University of Vienna, September 20, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2017 .

[shokokan-3] Photo of the information board for the Shokokan