Gukanshō
Gukanshō (愚管抄, lit. "Jottings of a Fool") is a historical and literary work about the history of Japan. Seven volumes in length, it was composed by
Political problems arising from the relations between the Imperial government and the
Contents
The text is composed of three major sections:
- Volumes 1 and 2 consist of imperial chronicle beginning with Emperor Jimmu and concluding with Emperor Juntoku.
- Volumes 3 through 6 present a historical description focusing on political transitions.
- Volume 7 offers a summary of the contemporary state of the Japanese polity.
The careful writer attempted to apply Buddhist principles such as
See also
- Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo
- International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- Japanese Historical Text Initiative
- Historiography of Japan
Notes
References
- Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida. Berkeley: ISBN 0-520-03460-0
- Brownlee, John S. (1991). Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712). Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0-88920-997-9
- (in Japanese) Okami, Masao and Toshihide Akamatsu. (1967). [Jien, c. 1220] Gukanshō. Tokyo: ISBN 4-00-060086-9
- (in Japanese) 愚管抄