Making the Myth out of the Legends : Reading Koshi-seibun(<Special Issue>The Reception of Classics and the Formation of the Canon in Early Modern Times)

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  • 古伝の受容と神話の形成 : 『古史成文』というテキスト(<特集>近世における古典の受容と形成)
  • 古伝の受容と神話の形成--『古史成文』というテキスト
  • コデン ノ ジュヨウ ト シンワ ノ ケイセイ コシ セイブン ト イウ テキスト

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Hirata-Atsutane compiled various passages from Kojiki, and Shinto prayers into a book known as Koshi-seibun. He called the work a collection of "genuine legends" because, he believed, in compiling them he removed all apocryphal and heretic elements from the original texts. Later he wrote Tama-no-mihashira with this "genuine" mythology as a source book, but it caused a great scandal among the scholars of the Motoori school. For they doubted the credibility of Hirata's myth-making because his standard of selection itself was apocryphal and heretic to them. The aim of this essay is to compare Hirata's notion of orthodxy with that of the Motoori school and then to examine the peculiarity and meaning of his standard.

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