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Jodai Bungakukai Award じょうだいぶんがくかいしょう

Edition 1 (1984)

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A scholarly study that reads the Kojiki not only as myth or historical material but as a constructed text. Through the logic of kingship, myth, and song narrative, it argues for its achievement as a work.

It rereads the Kojiki through the logic of an achieved literary work.

310 pages
Kojikiancient literaturemythkingshiptextual study

An article rereading the expression of ancient songs from the viewpoint of production narrative. It examines how ancient uta connect with narrative and communal logic.

It interprets ancient songs through the workings of expression.

ancient songstheory of expressionproduction narrativeancient literaturearticle