Shoku Nihongi

The Chronicle Shoku Nihongi ( Japanese 続 日本 紀 , Eng. “Continuation of Nihongi ”, also “Continued Chronicle of Japan”), Shokki for short ( 続 紀 ), is a history book of the early Heian period commissioned by the Japanese imperial family . After the Nihongi, it is the second of the "Six Reichsannals" ( Rikkokushi ). The Shoku Nihongi is one of the most important historical sources about the Nara period .

A period of 95 years is dealt with, beginning with the accession of Tennō Mommu in 697 to the 10th year of the rule of Tennō Kammu in 791. The work was completed in 797.

The Shoku Nihongi consists of 40 books and, as usual for this period, is written in Kanbun - Japanese in classical Chinese . This does not include the 62 imperial edicts ( senmyō ), which are written in a style called senmyō-gaki in which Japanese grammatical forms are reproduced phonetically. These therefore provide important information for researching the grammar of the ancient Japanese language .

literature

• Herbert Zachert : The imperial decrees of Shoku-Nihongi in text and translation with explanations I. Introduction and Semmyô 1-29 . Asia Major , Volume 8, 1932, pp. 105-232, PDF

swell

• Hammitzsch, Horst (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

Web links

• Further information and transcript from the Japanese Historical Text Initiative

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bjarke Frellesvig: A History of the Japanese Language . Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-65320-6 , pp. 24 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed February 10, 2018]).