The Invention of a New Religion
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Japanese scholars know this as well as we do; it is one of the certainresults of investigation. But the Japanese bureaucracy does not desireto have the light let in on this inconvenient circumstance. Whilegranting a dispensation re the national mythology, properly so called, it exacts belief in every iota of the national historic legends. Woe tothe native professor who strays from the path of orthodoxy. His wifeand children (and in Japan every man, however young, has a wife andchildren) will st...arve. From the late Prince Ito's grossly misleading"Commentary on the Japanese Constitution" down to school compendiums, the absurd dates are everywhere insisted upon. This despite the factthat the mythology and the so-called early history are recorded in thesame works, and are characterised by like miraculous impossibilities;that the chronology is palpably fraudulent; that the speeches putinto the mouths of ancient Mikados are centos culled from the Chineseclassics; that their names are in some cases derived from Chinesesources; and that the earliest Japanese historical narratives, theearliest known social usages, and even the centralised Imperial form ofGovernment itself, are all stained through and through with a Chinesedye, so much so that it is no longer possible to determine whatpercentage of old native thought may still linger on in fragments hereand there.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Japanese scholars know this as well as we do; it is one of the certainresults of investigation. But the Japanese bureaucracy does not desireto have the light let in on this inconvenient circumstance. Whilegranting a dispensation re the national mythology, properly so called, it exacts belief in every iota of the national historic legends. Woe tothe native professor who strays from the path of orthodoxy. His wifeand children (and in Japan every man, however young, has a wife andchildren) will st...arve. From the late Prince Ito's grossly misleading"Commentary on the Japanese Constitution" down to school compendiums, the absurd dates are everywhere insisted upon. This despite the factthat the mythology and the so-called early history are recorded in thesame works, and are characterised by like miraculous impossibilities;that the chronology is palpably fraudulent; that the speeches putinto the mouths of ancient Mikados are centos culled from the Chineseclassics; that their names are in some cases derived from Chinesesources; and that the earliest Japanese historical narratives, theearliest known social usages, and even the centralised Imperial form ofGovernment itself, are all stained through and through with a Chinesedye, so much so that it is no longer possible to determine whatpercentage of old native thought may still linger on in fragments hereand there.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Chamberlain Basil Hall to read onlineMoreLess
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