Shinkokushi

Japanese official historical work
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Shinkokushi (新国史, lit.'New National History') is an unfinished Japanese official historical work compiled, in part, by the early Heian period scholar Ōe no Asatsuna [ja], grandson of Ōe no Otondo, who had been one of the compilers of the Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku.[1] After Asatsuna's death in 957, his cousin Ōe no Koretoki became the head compiler. It was supposed to succeed the Six National Histories.[2]

The Shinkokushi is recorded in the Honchō Shojoku Mokuroku [ja] as having forty volumes and covering the reigns of Emperor Uda (887-897) to Emperor Daigo (897-930). However a later work, the Shūgaisho [ja], states that the Shinkokushi was fifty volumes and included the reign of Emperor Suzaku (930-946) as well as Uda and Daigo.[1] Because of the differences in size, lack of a formal title, and that no record of a presentation of the work survives, it is believed that the Shinkokushi was an unfinished manuscript.[1][3] As a manuscript, the entirety of the Shinkokushi does not survive but instead portions of it have been passed down in other works.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Sakamoto, Taro (2011-11-01). The Six National Histories of Japan. UBC Press. pp. 187–191. ISBN 978-0-7748-4296-9.
  2. ^ Taniguchi Akira. Nihon Dai Hyakka Zensho (Nipponica). Shōgakukan
  3. ^ Brownlee, John S. (2006-01-01). Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712). Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-88920-874-2.
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