The Kuji Hongi 旧事本紀, Volumes 7, 8 and 9 considered as a draft of the Nihon Shoki

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  • 旧事本紀攷：日本書紀の草稿と思はれる同書巻七・八・九について（原著）

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The Kuji Hongi has been generally regarded for two and a half centuries as a spurious work of little or no value. In the present article, evidence is adduced to show that, on the contrary, at least a portion of the Kuji Hongi should be regarded as some kind of a draft version of a portion of the Nihon Shoki. The evidence is afforded, principally, by the nature of the numerous discrepancies between the texts of the two works. The Kuji Hongi should henceforth be subjected to a critical scrutiny as exhaustive as that hitherto reserved for the Nihon Shoki and the Kojiki. (This article was originally published in English in Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, No. 14, 1955.)

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