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UCLA

1. Foulk, Emi Joanne. The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichū, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan.

Degree: History, 2016, UCLA

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5nb4j9dd

► This dissertation seeks to reconsider the eighteenth-century kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga’s (1730-1801) conceptions of language, and in doing so also reformulate the manner in which… (more)

▼ This dissertation seeks to reconsider the eighteenth-century kokugaku scholar Motoori Norinaga’s (1730-1801) conceptions of language, and in doing so also reformulate the manner in which we understand early modern kokugaku and its role in Japanese history. Previous studies have interpreted kokugaku as a linguistically constituted communitarian movement that paved the way for the makings of Japanese national identity. My analysis demonstrates, however, that Norinaga – by far the most well-known kokugaku thinker – was more interested in pulling a fundamental ontology out from language than tying a politics of identity into it: grammatical codes, prosodic rhythms, and sounds and their attendant sensations were taken not as tools for interpersonal communication but as themselves visible and/or audible threads in the fabric of the cosmos. Norinaga’s work was thus undergirded by a positive understanding of language as ontologically grounded within the cosmos, a framework he borrowed implicitly from the seventeenth-century Shingon monk Keichū (1640-1701) and esoteric Buddhist (mikkyō) theories of language. Through philological investigation into ancient texts, both Norinaga and Keichū believed, the profane dust that clouded (sacred, cosmic) truth could be swept away, as if by a jeweled broom.The dissertation is divided into four chapters. The first chapter takes a historiographical look at the study of kokugaku and Norinaga’s central role therein. It also sets out the thesis that the remaining three chapters of the dissertation attempt to substantiate: that kokugaku, at least up to Norinaga’s time, ought to be considered as a form of philology, traditionally conceived. It was, in other words, an attempt to uncover cosmological truth from the language of ancient texts. In the second chapter, I present a genealogy of Norinaga’s kokugaku, tracing Norinaga’s thought back to Keichū. This chapter attempts to demonstrate that Keichū’s empirical methodology was a direct result of his esoteric Buddhist training and background and, indeed, was grounded firmly within an esoteric Buddhist doctrinal system. It then goes on to argue that Norinaga’s philology and positive valuation of language, too, is predicated on a Buddhological framework that stresses the immanence of the truth in the world known by ordinary people. The third and fourth chapters explore Norinaga’s conception of language and its role in the world, looking specifically at his studies of teniwoha and his much celebrated theory of mono no aware. In these final two chapters, I demonstrate that mono no aware and teniwoha lie at the foundation of both Norinaga’s epistemology and ontology, offering a means for knowing and apprehending the cosmos as well as a model for how that cosmos itself exists.

Subjects/Keywords: History; Asian history; Asian literature; Early Modern Japan; Keichū; Kokugaku; Motoori Norinaga; Philology

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Foulk, E. J. (2016). The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichū, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5nb4j9dd

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Foulk, Emi Joanne. “The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichū, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan.” 2016. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5nb4j9dd.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Foulk, Emi Joanne. “The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichū, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan.” 2016. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Foulk EJ. The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichū, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5nb4j9dd.

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Foulk EJ. The Jeweled Broom and the Dust of the World: Keichū, Motoori Norinaga, and Kokugaku in Early Modern Japan. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2016. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5nb4j9dd

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Cornell University

2. Lee, I-Zhuen. Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan.

Degree: PhD, Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture, 2018, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749

► This dissertation examines the relation between scholars of kokugaku (often translated as "nativism") and the rise of empirical rationalism as a paradigm for knowledge in… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Early Modern Japan; Early Modern Japanese Medical History; Kokugaku; Tokugawa Intellectual History; Wabun; Asian studies; Nature; Asian literature

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Lee, I. (2018). Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lee, I-Zhuen. “Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lee, I-Zhuen. “Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan.” 2018. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lee I. Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749.

Council of Science Editors:

Lee I. Medicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59749

University of Arkansas

3. Totty, Chadwick Mackenzie. The Way of the Gods: The Development of Shinto Nationalism in Early Modern Japan.

Degree: MA, 2015, University of Arkansas

URL: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1410

► This research looks at the development of Shinto nationalism in Edo Period Japan (1603-1868). It focuses on the development of intellectual thought and the… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; religion and theology; Social sciences; Edo period; Japan; Kogaku; Kokugaku; Nativism; Tokugawa; Asian History; History of Religions of Eastern Origins

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Totty, C. M. (2015). The Way of the Gods: The Development of Shinto Nationalism in Early Modern Japan. (Masters Thesis). University of Arkansas. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1410

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Totty, Chadwick Mackenzie. “The Way of the Gods: The Development of Shinto Nationalism in Early Modern Japan.” 2015. Masters Thesis, University of Arkansas. Accessed January 17, 2021. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1410.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Totty, Chadwick Mackenzie. “The Way of the Gods: The Development of Shinto Nationalism in Early Modern Japan.” 2015. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Totty CM. The Way of the Gods: The Development of Shinto Nationalism in Early Modern Japan. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Arkansas; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1410.

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Totty CM. The Way of the Gods: The Development of Shinto Nationalism in Early Modern Japan. [Masters Thesis]. University of Arkansas; 2015. Available from: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1410

Leiden University

4. Kok, D.P. Visualizing the classics: reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history.

Degree: 2017, Leiden University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/58771

► Surimono reflect cultural and social facets of urban life in late Edo period Japan. Thus far, most surimono research was focused on the art historic… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Surimono; Kyōka; Networks; Print; Poetry; Reception; Japanese; Literature; Kokugaku; Surimono; Kyōka; Networks; Print; Poetry; Reception; Japanese; Literature; Kokugaku

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APA (6^th Edition):

Kok, D. P. (2017). Visualizing the classics: reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history. (Doctoral Dissertation). Leiden University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1887/58771

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kok, D P. “Visualizing the classics: reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Leiden University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1887/58771.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kok, D P. “Visualizing the classics: reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history.” 2017. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Kok DP. Visualizing the classics: reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Leiden University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/58771.

Council of Science Editors:

Kok DP. Visualizing the classics: reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Leiden University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/58771

Linnaeus University

5. Linden, Martin van der. Tingets patos : Religionsestetik och shinto som ett estetiskt objekt.

Degree: Cultural Sciences, 2020, Linnaeus University

URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97551

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Föreliggande uppsats är en religionsestetisk studie med fokus på den estetiska dimensionen inom shinto och dess historiska bakgrund. Studien söker en förklaring till nutidens… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Shinto; religious studies; religion in Japan; Religious aesthetics; religion; aesthetics; mono no aware; pathos of things; Motoori Norinaga; Kokugaku; Shinto; religionsvetenskap; religion i Japan; religionsestetik; religion; estetik; mono no aware; tingets patos; Motoori Norinaga; Kokugaku; Religious Studies; Religionsvetenskap

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Linden, M. v. d. (2020). Tingets patos : Religionsestetik och shinto som ett estetiskt objekt. (Thesis). Linnaeus University. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97551

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Linden, Martin van der. “Tingets patos : Religionsestetik och shinto som ett estetiskt objekt.” 2020. Thesis, Linnaeus University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97551.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Linden, Martin van der. “Tingets patos : Religionsestetik och shinto som ett estetiskt objekt.” 2020. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Linden Mvd. Tingets patos : Religionsestetik och shinto som ett estetiskt objekt. [Internet] [Thesis]. Linnaeus University; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97551.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Linden Mvd. Tingets patos : Religionsestetik och shinto som ett estetiskt objekt. [Thesis]. Linnaeus University; 2020. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97551

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University of Vienna

6. Buciova, Dominika. Japanese myths in the pioneering studies of English and German-speaking Japanologists.

Degree: 2018, University of Vienna

URL: http://othes.univie.ac.at/54953/

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In meiner Masterarbeit stelle ich Ernest Mason Satow (1843–1929), Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935), William George Aston (1841–1911), Karl Florenz (1865–1939) und ihre Werke mit Bezug… (more)

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In meiner Masterarbeit stelle ich Ernest Mason Satow (1843–1929), Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935), William George Aston (1841–1911), Karl Florenz (1865–1939) und ihre Werke mit Bezug auf japanische Mythologie vor. Ich analysiere die japanischen und westlichen Quellen der vorgestellten Pioniere der Japanologie um zu verstehen, wie sich die unterschiedlichen akademischen Traditionen in ihren Werken überschneiden. Ich analysiere weiter ihre Interpretationen von japanischen Mythen, um die Verschiedenheiten und gemeinsamen Grundideen in ihren Werken aufzudecken. Obwohl sich ihre Teilerbebnisse unterscheiden, weisen sie dieselben Grundcharakteristika auf, etwa die Suche nach dem Ursprung von Religion, der komparative Ansatz und die ethnologische Interpretation des Ursprungs von Religion. Weiter konnte ich eine gewisse Kontinuität in ihrer Themenwahl, Übersetzungen, Wahl und Umgang mit japanischen Quellen und ihrer allgemeinen Herangehensweise erkennen. Diese Kontinuität spricht für die Existenz einer Anglo-Germanischen Schule in der japanischen Mythenforschung, die mit Satow begann und von Florenz fortgesetzt wurde. Diese Anglo-Germanischen Schule wurde ursprünglich von einem evolutionistischen Paradigma beeinflusst, verlagerte aber später ihren Schwerpunkt in Richtung des Diffusionismus, womit sie den leitenden Diskurs der gegenwärtigen europäischen Mythenforschung wiederholte.

In my thesis I introduce Ernest Mason Satow (1843–1929), Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935), William George Aston (1841–1911), Karl Florenz (1865–1939) and their academic work with focus on Japanese mythology. I analyze the Japanese and Western sources of the named pioneer Japanologists in order to get an understanding of how these distinct scholarly traditions intersect in their work. I further analyze their interpretations of Japanese myths, which allows me to distinguish the differences and common underlying concepts inherent in their works. Although their partial results may have been different, they have some common characteristics such as the search for the origin of religion, comparative approach and ethnological interpretation of the origins of religion. I was further able to identify continuity in their selection of topics, translations, choice and use of secondary Japanese sources and their general approach to Japanese mythological texts. This continuity suggests the existence of an Anglo-Germanic school of Japanese mythology studies, which began with Satow and continued until Florenz. This Anglo-Germanic school was initially influenced by an evolutionist paradigm but later shifted towards diffusionism, and therefore repeated the leading discourse within contemporary mythology scholarship in Europe.

Subjects/Keywords: 11.88 Schintoismus; 15.80 Japan; 18.91 Japanische Sprache und Literatur; 73.56 Mythologie; 73.01 Geschichte der Ethnologie; Japan / japanische Mythen / vergleichende Mythologieforschung / kokugaku / Evolutionismus / Diffusionismus / Ernest Mason Satow / Basil Hall Chamberlain / William George Aston / Karl Florenz / Kojiki / Nihon shoki / norito; Japan / Japanese myths / comparative mythology / kokugaku / evolutionism / diffusionism / Ernest Mason Satow / Basil Hall Chamberlain / William George Aston / Karl Florenz / Kojiki / Nihon shoki / norito

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APA (6^th Edition):

Buciova, D. (2018). Japanese myths in the pioneering studies of English and German-speaking Japanologists. (Thesis). University of Vienna. Retrieved from http://othes.univie.ac.at/54953/

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Buciova, Dominika. “Japanese myths in the pioneering studies of English and German-speaking Japanologists.” 2018. Thesis, University of Vienna. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://othes.univie.ac.at/54953/.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Buciova, Dominika. “Japanese myths in the pioneering studies of English and German-speaking Japanologists.” 2018. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Buciova D. Japanese myths in the pioneering studies of English and German-speaking Japanologists. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Vienna; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://othes.univie.ac.at/54953/.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Buciova D. Japanese myths in the pioneering studies of English and German-speaking Japanologists. [Thesis]. University of Vienna; 2018. Available from: http://othes.univie.ac.at/54953/

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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