Japanese G9040
Graduate Seminar on Premodern Japanese Literature,
Spring 2016:
Tsuda Sōkichi vs. Orikuchi Shinobu
Wednesdays 4:10-6:00pm; 522A Kent Hall
David Lurie
<DBL11@columbia.edu>
Office Hours: Tues. 2-3 & Thurs. 11-12 in 500C
Kent Hall
Course
Rationale:
This course treats Tsuda Sōkichi (1873-1961) and
Orikuchi Shinobu (1887-1953) as twin titans of twentieth-century scholarship on
ancient Japan. In fields as diverse as
literature, history of thought, religious studies, mythology, ancient history,
poetry, Chinese studies, and drama, their influence remains strong today. Tsuda’s ideas still shape mainstream
approaches to Japanese mythology and early historical works, and terms and
concepts created by Orikuchi are central to national literary studies (kokubungaku), even if their derivation
from his work is often forgotten. It is hard to imagine two scholars more
different in approach and style: Tsuda the systematic, skeptical positivist
versus Orikuchi the intuitive, speculative romantic. And yet they repeatedly addressed similar
questions and problems, and despite Tsuda’s earlier birth and longer life,
their periods of greatest productivity (Taishō to early Shōwa, with important
codas in the decade or so after the war) also overlapped. Accordingly this syllabus imagines a dialogue
between them by juxtaposing selections from key works.
Because the oeuvres of Tsuda and Orikuchi are so enormous (put together, their
collected works reach 75 volumes) and their interests so varied, it is
impossible to provide a systematic overview here. The selection is focused on early Japan, and
much has been left out, such as Orikuchi’s work on poetry and drama, or Tsuda’s
studies of Buddhism and classical Chinese philosophy. Nonetheless, we should end the semester with
a rich sense of the texture of their writings and the lasting significance of
their thought.
The point is not to look for direct
points of contact—influence or disagreement— between them, although it is clear
from numerous references that Orikuchi, at least, was reading Tsuda.[1] Neither is this an attempt to flesh out
particular moments in modern Japanese intellectual history; to do so would
require more sustained attention to the contexts in which they produced and
disseminated their scholarship. Rather,
our goals are to reconsider the range of possibilities for engagement with
early Japanese texts; to familiarize ourselves with the methodological
differences foregrounded by this semester-long juxtaposition; and to consider
the impact of style and (for want of a better term) taste on a scholar’s body
of work.
Prerequisites:
A grounding in kanbun
and/or classical Chinese will be enormously helpful, but the only firm
prerequisite is solid command of modern and classical Japanese. Note, though, that this is an advanced
graduate seminar with extensive readings.
Students with concerns about their ability to keep up should consult
with the instructor before registering for the class. A certain degree of
familiarity with early Japanese literature will be necessary for most of the
readings. Students without prior
exposure to Nara period literature are encouraged to read the initial chapters
from the Cambridge History of Japanese
Literature and Borgen and Ury’s classic “Readable Japanese Mythology,” both
of which are available on Courseworks.
Resources from the bibliography at the end of this syllabus, especially
the two Orikuchi encyclopedias, should also be consulted.
Requirements:
1) Consistent attendance/participation, including
in-class reading and translation of sources.
3) Regular postings about assigned readings (see
below).
3) A short final project (see below), due on Monday 16
May.[2]
Course
Materials:
Readings from the work of Tsuda and Orikuchi can be
found in their respective zenshū,[3]
but editions with more accessible orthography, or with annotations, are used
when available. Regardless of the
source, all assigned readings will be posted as pdfs on Courseworks. Assigned secondary sources, and selections
from classical works discussed by Tsuda and Orikuchi, will also be posted as
pdfs on Courseworks. Select volumes from
Tsuda’s zenshū are on reserve in
Starr Library. Orikuchi’s most recent zenshū remains down in the library
stacks, but has been designated as non-circulating (in its entirety) for the
duration of this seminar; please return
any volume you’ve consulted to the shelf when you are finished with it. (You are free to page and borrow volumes from
the older zenshū that is held
offsite.)
Postings:
Each week, students are required to submit a brief
posting (approximately 500 words) on Courseworks by midnight on Tuesday. This posting will raise questions about or
otherwise respond to some aspect of the reading(s) for that week.
Final
Project:
Students have three options for the final project:
1) exegesis of a key term or terms; 2) commentary/analysis of a passage from
one or more of our readings; 3) a well-annotated translation of sections of a
Tsuda or Orikuchi text or texts not addressed in this course, with a brief
introduction. The resulting paper is
meant to be a short (around 10 pages) analytic exercise, with minimal reliance
on secondary sources. Although
comparison of Tsuda and Orikuchi is desirable, students are free to focus on
one or the other if they prefer to do so.
Please keep this project in mind from the beginning of the semester, and
consult with me in advance of the brief presentations on work in progress
during the final class session (Wednesday 27 April).
Schedule:
1) 20 Jan. Introduction
2) 27 Jan. Retrospection
and Methodology
Tsuda: “Gakkyū seikatsu gojūnen” (1951) AND “Jindaishi no kenkyū hō” (1919), from Tsuda Sōkichi rekishiron shū (ed. Imai
Osamu, Iwanami bunko, 2006), pp. 5-25 and 62-74
Orikuchi: Afterword (oigaki)
to Kodai kenkyū (1930), from Orikuchi Shinobu (Chikuma Nihon bungaku
25, 2008), pp. 348-385
3) 3 Feb. Theories and
Critiques of Ethnology
Orikuchi: “Minzoku[俗]gaku kara minzoku[族]gaku
e” (1950 dialogue with Yanagita Kunio), OSZ Bekkan 3:586-627
Tsuda: “Nihon jōdaishi no kenkyū ni kansuru ni, san no keikō ni
tsuite” (1931), from Tsuda Sōkichi
rekishiron shū, pp. 116-135
4) 10 Feb. What is a God?
Orikuchi: “Nihonjin no kami to reikon no kannen sono hoka” (1949
dialogue with Yanagita Kunio), OSZ Bekkan 3:538-585
Tsuda: “Jindaishi no kami
ni tsuite” (1954), TSZ 9:415-26 (see also 1966 T’oung Pao English translation)
5) 17 Feb. Other
Worlds: Yomi and tokoyo
Orikuchi:
“Minzoku shikan ni okeru takai kannen” (1952), OSZ 20:19-72
Tsuda: tokoyo discussion
in “Sujin Tennō Suinin Tennō nichō no monogatari” AND “Yomi no kuni no
monogatari,” from Nihon koten no kenkyū
(vol. 1, 1948), TSZ 1:253-255 and 394-409
6) 24 Feb. Literature
as Method I: The Rival Princes
•Kojiki account
of the sons of Emperor Ōjin (from Philippi translation)
Orikuchi: “Ōyamamori” (1922) from Kodai kan’ai shū (1947), in Ishiuchi Tōru, Shaku Chōkū Kodai kan’ai shū
chūshaku: zen (Minato no hito, 2009), pp. 281-353
7) 2 March Literature
as Method II: The Book of the Dead
•Edwin Cranston translations of
poems related to Prince Ōtsu (Gem-Glistening
Cup poem numbers 269-270,
272-277, 872-873)
•SKIM: Paula Doe, “The Final Years: Alienation and Silence,” in A Warbler’s Song in the Dusk: The Life and
Work of Ōtomo Yakamochi (718-785) (University of California Press, 1982),
pp. 201-236
•Monika Dix, “Ascending
Hibariyama: Chūjōhime’s Textual, Physical, and Spiritual Journey to Salvation,”
Review of Japanese Culture and Society 19
(Dec. 2007), pp. 103-116
•Summary of Shisha no sho from the Nihon
bungei kanshō jiten vol. 12 (Gyōsei, 1988), pp. 152-160
Orikuchi: Shisha no sho (1943), from Nihon kindai bungaku taikei vol. 46
(Kadokawa shoten, 1972): sections 1-10 (pp. 44-99).[4]
8) 9 March The
Virtue of Promiscuity (irogonomi no toku)
•Kojiki accounts
of Ōkuninushi and Suseribime and of Nintoku and Iwanohime (from Philippi)
•Summary of “Suetsumuhana” in
Hirose Isako (with translation by Susan Tyler), Genji monogatari nyūmon/An Introduction to the Tale of Genji
(1989), pp. 24-27
Orikuchi: “Man’yōbito no seikatsu” (1922), OSZ 1:307-320 AND
discussion of Genji monogatari in
general and “Suetsumuhana” in particular from Kokubungaku (1948-1952) [see especially the sections entitled
“Genji no irogonomi” and “Irogonomi ron”], OSZ 16:213-241
Tsuda: chapters on the Heian view of love (ren’aikan) from Bungaku ni
arawaretaru waga kokumin shisō no kenkyū: Kizoku bungaku (1916), TSZ bekkan
2:140-145 and 244-262
NO CLASS 16 MARCH; SPRING BREAK
9) 23 March ‘Chinese
Thought’ and its Influence
Tsuda:
“Maegaki” and “Nihon wa Shina shisō o ika ni ukeireta ka” from Shina shisō to Nihon
(1938), as revised for inclusion in Rekishigaku to rekishi kyōiku (1959),
TSZ 20:195-269
10) 30 March [NO CLASS MEETING] Aspects of
Reception and Influence
Read all of the following articles and write a 1000-word
posting about issues raised by one or more of them, to be submitted by 4pm on
Wednesday the 30th.
John S. Brownlee, “Tsuda Sōkichi
(1873-1961): An Innocent on the Loose,” in Japanese
Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor
Jinmu
(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997), pp. 186-200
Joel Joos, “The Insignificant
Sinification: Tsuda Sōkichi's (1873-1961) Views on the Fate of Chinese Thought
in Japan,” in Peter Lutum, ed., Japanizing:
The Structure of
Culture and
Thinking in Japan (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2006), pp. 63-120
Kentaro Tomio, “Historiography in
the Margins of Modernity: The Cultural Production of History in Orikuchi Folk
Studies,” in Productions of Culture in
Japan (Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, 1995), pp.
197-234
Harry Harootunian, “Art, Aura, and Repetition,” in Overcome By Modernity: History, Culture, and
Community in Interwar Japan (Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 328-357
11) 6 April Japanese
Origins
Orikuchi: “Kokubungaku no hassei dai-1-kō” (1924) OSZ 1:67-78 AND
“Haha ga kuni e/ Tokoyo e” (1920), from Orikuchi
Shinobu (Chikuma Nihon bungaku 25, 2008), pp. 386-402
Tsuda:
“Josetsu,” Bungaku ni arawaretaru waga
kokumin shisō no kenkyū: Kizoku bungaku
(1916), TSZ bekkan 2:25-51
12) 13 April The
Itinerant Sources of Japanese Literature
Orikuchi: Selections from Nihon
bungaku no hassei: josetsu (1947): “Shōsetsu gikyoku bungaku ni okeru
monogatari yōso,” “Bungaku to kyōen to,” and “Ijin to bungaku to”; OSZ
4:196-266
13) 20 April The Structure of Japanese Mythology
Tsuda: Jindaishi no atarashii kenkyū (1913),
chapters 1, 2, and 5; TSZ bekkan 1:34-98, 144-152
14) 27 April Postwar
Reform of Shintō
[session starts with brief presentations about final
projects]
Tsuda: “Kenkoku no jijō to bansei ikkei no shisō” (1946), from Tsuda Sōkichi rekishiron shū (ed. Imai
Osamu, Iwanami bunko, 2006), pp. 278-323 (note that there is a 1963 English
translation of the revised version of this article that was included in Nihon jōdaishi no kenkyū [1947])
Orikuchi: “Shinwa 2” (reconstruction of 1946 lecture), Orikuchi Shinobu zenshū Nōto hen tsuiho
1 (Chūō kōronsha, 1987), pp. 317-327 AND “Shintō” (1951), OSZ 20:348-359
FINAL PAPER DUE:
Monday 16 May
Timeline
|
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Tsuda |
Orikuchi |
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1873 |
born in
Minokamo, Gifu |
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1887 |
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born in
Kizumura, Ōsaka (Imamiya area, west of Shitennōji) |
|
1891 |
graduates
from Tokyo Senmon Gakkō (=Waseda) |
|
|
1896 |
becomes
middle school teacher |
|
|
1908 |
joins the
research bureau (Mansen rekishi chiri chōsabu) of the South Manchurian
Railway Company (Mantetsu) under
Shiratori Kurakichi (1865-1942) |
|
|
1910 |
|
graduates
from Kokugakuin University (kokubungaku)
|
|
|
|
|
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1913 |
Jindaishi no atarashii kenkyū; Chōsen rekishi chiri |
start of
friendship with Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962); essay published in Kyōdo kenkyū |
|
1916 |
Bungaku ni arawaretaru waga kokumin shisō no kenkyū
(publication continues to 1921) |
Kōyaku Man’yōshū (vols. 2 and 3 published
1917) |
|
1918 |
lecturer
at Waseda |
|
|
1919 |
Kojiki oyobi Nihon shoki no shin kenkyū |
lecturer
at Kokugakuin |
|
1920 |
professor
at Waseda |
“Waga kuni
e/tokoyo e” (Kokugakuin zasshi) |
|
1921 |
|
first trip
to Okinawa |
|
1922 |
|
professor
at Kokugakuin |
|
1923 |
|
lecturer at Keiō
University; second trip to Okinawa; walks from Yokohama to Tokyo a few days
after the Great Kantō Earthquake |
|
1924 |
Jindaishi no kenkyū; Kojiki oyobi Nihon shoki no kenkyū |
|
|
1925 |
|
Umi yama no aida (tanka collection); “Kodai
seikatsu no kenkyū” (Kaizō) |
|
1926 |
|
“Uta no
enjaku suru toki” (Kaizō) |
|
1929 |
|
Kodai kenkyū (Minzokugaku hen 1 and
Kokubungaku hen; Minzokugaku hen 2 published 1930) |
|
1930 |
Nihon jōdaishi kenkyū |
Haru no kotobure (tanka collection) |
|
1933 |
Jōdai Nihon no shakai oyobi shisō |
|
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1935 |
|
criticized
by Yanagita (“Kyōdo kenkyū no seichō”); third trip to Okinawa |
|
1939 |
|
Shisha no sho serialized (Nihon
hyōron; book published in 1943) |
|
1940 |
resigns
post at Waseda; several of his studies of ancient Japan are banned, and along
with publisher Iwanami Shigeo
(1881-1946) he is prosecuted for lèse-majesté
|
|
|
1943 |
|
Arahitogami
incident |
|
1945 |
leaves
Tokyo for Hiraizumi (until 1950) |
40 days
seclusion in Hakone after Japan’s surrender in August |
|
1946 |
refuses
appointment as president of Waseda; named Professor Emeritus |
“Shintō
gairon” |
|
1947 |
Nihon jōdaishi no kenkyū |
Kodai kan’ai shū (poetry collection) |
|
1948 |
Nihon koten no kenkyū (vol. 2
published 1950) |
|
|
1949 |
Nihon no shintō |
|
|
1950 |
|
Nihon bungaku keimō |
|
1951 |
Bungaku ni arawaretaru kokumin shisō no kenkyū (vol. 1;
publication continues; last, posthumous volume in 1965) |
|
|
1953 |
|
dies in
Tokyo (aged 66) |
|
1959 |
Rekishigaku to rekishi kyōiku |
|
|
1961 |
dies in
Tokyo (aged 88) |
|
Bibliography
I) On Tsuda
A) Studies in English
Barshay, Andrew E. State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan:
The Public Man in Crisis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
(Brief discussion of Tsuda’s 1939 lectures at Tokyo Imperial University and the
ensuing controversy.)
Brownlee, John S. Japanese Historians and the National Myths,
1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu. Vancouver: University of
British Columbia Press, 1997. (Final chapter is devoted to Tsuda’s career and
debates connected to his trial.)
Burns, Susan. Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imaging
of Community in Early Modern Japan. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University
Press, 2003. (Brief discussion of the treatment of kokugaku thought in Bungaku
ni arawaretaru kokumin no shisō.)
Joos, Joel. “A Stinking
Tradition: Tsuda Sōkichi's View of China.” East
Asian History 28(Dec. 2004): 1-26.
———. “The Insignificant Sinification:
Tsuda Sōkichi's (1873-1961) Views on the Fate of Chinese Thought in Japan.” In:
Peter Lutum, ed., Japanizing: The
Structure of Culture and Thinking in Japan (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2006), pp.
63-120. (Revision of Joos 2004.) ———. “Memories of a Liberal, Liberalism
of Memory: Tsuda Sōkichi and a Few Things He Forgot to Mention.” In: Sven
Saaler and Wolfgang Schwentker, eds., The
Power of Memory in Modern Japan (Kent: Global Oriental, 2008), 291-307.
———. “‘Love thy emperor’: Tsuda Sōkichi's
Views on ‘Tennō’ and ‘Minzoku.’” Japan
Forum 20:3 (2008): 383-403.
Kang, Etsuko Hae-Jin. “Tsuda
Sokichi (1873-1961) on China: The Antithesis of the East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere.” Journal of Oriental Studies
(Hong Kong) 35:2 (1997): 131-46.
Lurie, David B. “Notes on Tsuda Sōkichi’s
Approach to the ‘God Age’ Myths.” Botsugo
gojū-nen Tsuda Sōkichi ten tenji zuroku. Waseda University, 2011, pp.
49-50.
Ruoff, Kenneth J. The People’s Emperor: Democracy and the
Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center,
2001. (Discusses Tsuda’s controversial postwar publications supporting the
emperor system.)
Suzuki, Tomi. “Gender and Genre:
Modern Literary Histories and Women’s Diary Literature.” In : Haruo Shirane and
Tomi Suzuki, eds., Inventing the
Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2000, pp. 71-95. (Discussion of Tsuda’s approach to
writings by women in Bungaku ni
arawaretaru waga kokumin shisō no kenkyū.)
Tam, Yun-tai. “Rationalism vs.
Nationalism: Tsuda Sōkichi.” In: John S. Brownlee, ed., History in the Service of the Japanese Nation (Toronto: University
of Toronto-York University, Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, 1983), pp.
165-88.
Tanaka, Stefan. Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. (Some discussion of Tsuda’s
work and especially his interactions with Shiratori Kurakichi.)
B) Translations and articles originally
published in English
“On the Dates when the Li-chi and Ta-tai Li-chi Were Edited.” Memoirs
of the Tōyō bunko 6 (1932):77-112.
[Tuda Sokiti]. “Japan’s
Historical Position in the Far East.” Present-day
Nippon 15 (1939):27-28.
[Sohkichi Tsuda]. “Chinese
Thought and Japan.” Contemporary Japan: A
Review of Far Eastern Affairs 8:7 (1939):839-54.
“Survival of Ancient Customs in Modern Life.” Cultural Nippon 7:3 (1939):81-95.
What is the
Oriental Culture? Trans. Yasotaro Morri. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1955.
(Translation of “Tōyō bunka to wa nani ka,” TSZ
20:269-335.)
“On the Stages of the Formation
of Japan as a Nation, And the Origin of the Belief in the Perpetuity of the
Imperial Family.” Trans. Hideo Nakanishi. Philosophical
Studies of Japan 4 (1963):49-78. (Translation of “Nihon no kokka keisei no
katei to kōshitsu no kōkyūsei ni kansuru shisō no yurai,” TSZ 3:439-73.)
“The Idea of Kami in Ancient Japanese Classics.” Trans. Numazawa Kiichi,
Yamamoto Yuki, and Fukui Fumimasa. T’oung
Pao 2nd. ser. 52:4/5 (1966): 293-304. (Translation of “Jindaishi no kami ni tsuite,” TSZ 9:415-26.)
“Preface.” In: Fukuzawa Yukichi’s An Outline of a Theory of
Civilization, trans. David A. Dilworth and G. Cameron Hurst (Tokyo: Sophia
University, 1973), ix-xxiii. (Adapted translation of the first half of “Bunmeiron no gairyaku, Minjō isshin kaidai,” TSZ 24:215-233.)
An Inquiry into the Japanese Mind as Mirrored in Literature: The
Flowering Period of Common People Literature. Trans. Fukumatsu Matsuda.
Tokyo: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1970. (Abridged translation
of Bungaku ni arawaretaru Kokumin shisō
no kenkyū 3[1]: Heimin bungaku no
ryūsei, TSZ 6.)
C) Selective listing of Japanese-language
studies
Ienaga Saburō. Tsuda
Sōkichi no shisōshiteki kenkyū. Iwanami shoten, 1972.
Kōnoshi Takamitsu. “Kodai
shinwaron no tame ni.” In: Karube Tadashi et al., eds., Nihon shisōshi kōza 1: Kodai.
Perikansha, 2012, pp. 65-101.
Minokamo Shimin Myūjiamu. Tsuda Sōkichi: Sono hito to jidai. 2004.
Ōi Kensuke. Tsuda Sōkichi Dainihon teikoku to no taiketsu: Tennō no gunpuku o
nugaseta otoko. Bensei shuppan, 2015.
Ōmuro Mikio. Ajiantamu-shō: Tsuda Sōkichi no sei to jōchō. Shin’yōsha, 1983.
Shinkawa Tokio and Hayakawa
Mannen. Shiryō to shite no Nihon
shoki: Tsuda Sōkichi o yominaosu.
Bensei shuppan, 2011.
Ueda Masaaki, ed. Tsuda
Sōkichi: Hito to shisō. San’itsu shobō, 1974.
Waseda Daigaku and Minokamo
Shimin Myūjiamu. Botsugo gojū-nen Tsuda
Sōkichi ten tenji zuroku. 2011.
Yonetani Masafumi. “Tsuda Sōkichi
to Watsuji Tetsurō.” In: Kōnoshi Takamitsu, ed., Kojiki Nihon shoki hikkei. Gakutōsha, 1995, pp. 184-186.
II) On Orikuchi
A) Studies in English
Blacker, Carmen. “The Shinza or
God-Seat in the Daijōsai: Throne, Bed, or Incubation Couch?” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 17:2/3
(1990), pp. 179-197. (Extensive discussion of the 1930 “Daijōsai no hongi” [OSZ
3:168-229].)
Christy, Alan. A Discipline on Foot: Inventing Japanese
Native Ethnography 1910-1945. Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield,
2012.
Fujii, James. “Epilogue: The Kindai Shōsetsu and Origuchi Shinobu,”
in Complicit Fictions: The Subject in
Modern Japanese Prose Narrative. University of California Press, 1993, pp.
222-256.
Ghidini, Chiara. Orikuchi Shinobu: Narrating Women and
Ancient Japan. University of Cambridge PhD. Dissertation, 2006.
———. “The Ageless Voice of a Doting
Body: Taima Kataribe no Uba in Orikuchi Shinobu’s Book of the Dead.” Proceedings of the Association for Japanese
Literary Studies 13: The Poetics of
Aging (2012), pp. 29-39.
Hall, Jonathan Mark. “Orikuchi Shinobu and the
Enigmatic Signifier,” in Unwilling
Subjects:
Psychoanalysis
and Japanese Modernity. U.C. Santa Cruz PhD. Dissertation, 2003, pp. 32-53.
Harootunian, Harry. “Disciplining
Native Knowledge and Producing Place: Yanagita Kunio, Orikuchi Shinobu, Takata
Yasuma.” In: J. Thomas Rimer, ed., Culture
and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals During the Interwar Years. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. 99-127.
———. Overcome By Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar
Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. (Discussion of Orikuchi
passim, but especially in “Art, Aura,
and Repetition,” pp. 328-357.)
Kamata Tōji. “The Disfiguring of
Nativism: Hirata Atsutane and Orikuchi Shinobu.” In: John Breen and Mark
Teeuwen, eds., Shinto in History: Ways of
the Kami. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000, pp. 295-317.
Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the
Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism. New York: Henry Holt, 1984. (Brief
discussion of Orikuchi’s tanka poetry, pp. 69-73.)
Liman, A.V. “Orikuchi’s Shisha no sho (Book of the Dead).” Archív Orientalní 66:2 (1998)
———. “A Modern Text as Shamanistic
Performance; Orikuchi’s Shisha no sho
(Book of the Dead).” In: Intercultural
Explorations (ed. Eugene Eoyang). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005, pp. 183-191.
Miyagi, Kimiko. Orikuchi Shinobu: Toward a Holistic Reading
of Ancient Texts. Brown University M.A. Thesis, 1993.
Selden, Lili. Discourses
of Desire and Female Resistance in The Tale of Genji. University of
Michigan PhD. Dissertation, 2001. (Final chapter
contains extensive discussion of Orikuchi’s concept of irogonomi.)
Stockdale, Jonathan. “Origin
Myths: Susano-o, Orikuchi Shinobu, and the Imagination of Exile in Early Japan.
History of Religions 52:3 (February
2013), pp. 236-266.
Takeda Sumio. “Orikuchi Shinobu
and the Song of Life: The Ancient Japanese View of Communication.” Review of Japanese Culture and Society (Jōsai
University) 7(1995), pp. 13-21.
Tomio, Kentaro. “Historiography
in the Margins of Modernity: The Cultural Production of History in Orikuchi
Folk Studies.” In: Productions of Culture
in Japan. Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, 1995, pp.
197-234.
B) Translations into English
“A Study of Life in Ancient Days: Tokoyo no kuni.” Traditions I:4 (1977), pp. 29-54.
(Translation of “Kodai seikatsu no kenkyū: Tokoyo no
kuni” [1925], OSZ 2:25-47.)
Angles, Jeffrey. The Book of the Dead. University of
Minnesota Press, forthcoming. (Complete translation of Shisha no sho, accompanied by commentary from Andō Reiji’s Hikari no mandara.)
Shintoku-maru.
Shizuoka-ken Shizuoka-shi: Izu Bungaku Fesutibaru Jikkō Iinkai, 2001.
(Contains two translations of the short story
“Shintokumaru” [OSZ 27:82-98] by Evan
Emswiler and David Gundry.)
Rimer, J. Thomas. “Writings from the Book of the
Dead,” in J. Thomas Rimer and Van C.
Gessel, eds., The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature Volume 1: From
Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945. New York: Columbia University Press,
2005, pp.
485-493. (Translation of the first two chapters of Shisha no sho.)
Ueda, Makoto. Modern
Japanese Tanka: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press,
1996. (Short collection of tanka by Orikuchi [Shaku Chōkū],
pp. 85-96.)
C) Highly
selective listing of Japanese-language studies and collections
[NOTE: There is a tremendous amount of material on
Orikuchi’s life and work. For good
overviews up to the late 1990s, consult the two encyclopedias listed
immediately below; the recent thematic paperback volumes from Kōdansha and
Iwanami also often contain useful kaisetsu
commentaries and other helpful material]
1) Encyclopedias and Handbooks
Ariyama Daigo et al., ed. Chōkū/Orikuchi Shinobu jiten. Bensei shuppan, 2000.
Nishimura Tōru, ed. Orikuchi Shinobu jiten. Expanded edition. Taishūkan, 1998.
Okano Hirohiko and Nishimura Tōru, eds. Orikuchi Shinobu hikkei. Gakutōsha, 1987.
2) Annotated Editions and Thematic
Collections
Nihon no shiika vol. 11. Chūō kōronsha, 1969. (Unannotated
collection of poetry with running commentary by Katō Morio.)
Orikuchi
Shinobu shū. Nihon kindai bungaku taikei vol. 46. Kadokawa shoten, 1972.
Orikuchi
Shinobu shū. Kindai Nihon shisō
taikei vol. 22. Chikuma shobō, 1975.
Waka bungaku taikei vol. 30. Meiji shoin, 2005. (Annotated edition
of Umi yama no aida [1925])
Orikuchi Shinobu.
Chikuma Nihon bungaku 25, Chikuma shobō, 2008.
Uta no hanashi/Uta no enjaku suru toki. Iwanami bunko, 2009.
(Commentary [kaisetsu] by Okano
Hirohiko.)
Ishiuchi Tōru, Shaku
Chōkū Kodai kan’ai shū chūshaku: zen.
Minato no hito, 2009.
Bungō kaidan
kessakushū: Orikuchi Shinobu. Higashi Masao, ed. Chikuma bunko, 2009.
Shaku Chōkū
kashū. Tomioka Taeko, ed. Iwanami bunko, 2010.
Shisha no sho,
Kuchibue. Iwanami bunko, 2010. (Notes and commentary by Andō Reiji.) Orikuchi Shinobu bungei-ron shū. Andō
Reiji, ed. Kōdansha bungei bunko, 2010.
Orikuchi Shinobu
tennō-ron shū. Andō Reiji, ed. Kōdansha bungei bunko, 2011.
Orikuchi Shinobu
geinō-ron shū. Andō Reiji, ed. Kōdansha bungei bunko, 2012.
Orikuchi Shinobu
taiwa shū. Andō Reiji, ed. Kōdansha bungei bunko, 2013.
Orikuchi Shinobu
koten shiika-ron shū. Fujii Sadakazu, ed. Iwanami bunko, 2012.
3) Some Recent Scholarship and Criticism
Andō Reiji. Hikari no mandara: Nihon bungakuron. Kōdansha, 2008.
———. Orikuchi Shinobu. Kōdansha, 2014.
Fujii Sadakazu. Orikuchi Shinobu no shi no seiritsu: Shikei,
tanka, gaku. Chūō kōronsha, 2000.
Gendai shisō
42:7 (2014). (Special issue on Orikuchi.)
Ishiuchi Tōru. Orikuchi
Shinobu: Hito to bungaku. Bensei shuppan, 2003.
Kimura Junji. Orikuchi Shinobu: Ikidōru kokoro. Kōdansha, 2008.
Murai Osamu. Han
Orikuchi Shinobu ron. Sakuhinsha, 2004.
Ueno Makoto. Tamashii no kodaigaku: Toitsuzukeru Orikuchi
Shinobu. Shinchō sensho, 2008.
[1] Orikuchi writes favorably
about Tsuda’s Bungaku ni arawaretaru waga
kokumin shisō no kenkyū (1916-1921), even providing a short entry about it
for the 1937 Sekai bungaku daijiten (OSZ
32:301), but he is less positive about Tsuda’s claims for Chinese influence on
early mythological texts. On the other
hand, Tsuda’s opinion of Orikuchi’s work is harder to ascertain, because he
rarely cites other scholars by name, but the article we will read in Week 3 gives
some sense of how he responded, or would have responded, to it in general
terms.
[2] PLEASE NOTE: In
extraordinary circumstances an extension of a few days may be granted but
barring medical or family emergencies I will not permit any incompletes in this
course.
[3] The Tsuda Sōkichi zenshū (TSZ)
was published by Iwanami shoten in 33 volumes in 1963-1966, and then reissued
with two additional volumes, for a total of 35, in 1989. Orikuchi’s collected works have a more
complex history (on which see the Chōkū/Orikuchi
Shinobu jiten [Benseisha, 2000], pp. 227-233, with parallel tables of
contents on pp. 382-440). The old Orikuchi
Shinobu zenshū (a revision of an earlier version published shortly after
Orikuchi’s death) was published in 32 volumes by Chūō kōronsha in 1965-1968,
and followed by an additional 24 volumes of lecture notes (Nōto hen) in 1970-1974 and 1987-1988. The new Orikuchi
Shinobu zenshū (indicated by OSZ in
this syllabus) was published in
40 volumes by Chūō kōronsha from 1995 to 1999; it does not supplant the Nōto hen, but otherwise is the version
to consult.
[4] When Shisha no sho was first published in 1939 (in three installments in
the journal Nihon hyōron) the
sections were ordered thusly: 6, 7, 3, 4 (part 1); 1, 2, 5, 8-10 (part 2);
11-20 (part 3). Our selection
corresponds to parts 1 and 2 of the original (which Orikuchi extensively
revised as well as re-ordering), but students are encouraged to read the rest
of the novel if they have time.
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