Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku
The Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku ( Japanese 日本 文 徳 天皇 実 録 , dt. "Authentic records of the Tennō Montoku of Japan") is a chronicle of Japan for the years 850 to 858. It is the fifth part of the six official empire histories ( Rikkokushi ).
background
Work on this chronicle began in 871 by order of Tennō Seiwa and lasted until 879. As a follow-up to the "Continuations of the Later Annals of Japan" ( Shoku Nihon Kōki ), it should cover the years thereafter. Most of the text was compiled by the court aristocrat Fujiwara no Mototsune . Other participants in this project were Minabuchi no Toshina, Ōe Otondo, Shimada no Tadaomi, Sugawara no Koreyoshi (see Sugawara ), Yoshibuchi no Yoshinari and Miyako no Yoshika.
content
The 10 fascicles of the work, written in classical Chinese , deal with the last nine years of the reign of Tennō Montoku (827–858), the father of Seiwa.
literature
- Horst Hammitzsch (Ed.): Rikkokushi. The official imperial annals of Japan. The government annals of the Kammu-tenno, Shoku-Nihongi 36-40 and Nihon-Koki 1-13 (780-806) . Tokyo 1962. (Announcements of the German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia XLIII)
- Sakamoto, Tarō: Rikkokushi . Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 1994 (1st edition 1970) ( 坂 本 太郎 『六 国史』 吉川弘 文 館 ), ISBN 4-642-06602-0
- Sakamoto, Tarō / Brownlee, John S. (transl.): The Six National Histories of Japan. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press / Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1991, pp. 123-140, ISBN 0-7748-0379-7 ; 4-13-027026-5