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| Page | 370, | l. 20. Read 'many years have now passed, and it (my death) cannot be called premature.' |
| l.5 from bottom. Read 'should gain his purpose of uniting,' etc. | ||
| Page„ | 371, | l. 3, 4. Read 'The serfs of the Ohomuraji are wide-spread,' etc. |
| l. 14. Read 'Your serfs are very numerous.' | ||
| l. 16. Read 'Is it not better to keep safe our persons and avoid risk rather than by such an announcement to bring on ourselves ruin?' | ||
| Page„ | 386, | l. 10. After Dignity read 'to the great delight of the functionaries who were in attendance.' |
| Page„ | 390, | l. 11 from bottom. Read 'There are no words without response: no virtuous action without requital.' |
| l. 8 from bottom. For 'feasts' read 'has obtained.' | ||
| Page„ | 399, | l. 3. Read 'Oho-iratsume.' |
| Page„ | 400, | note 3. For '13' read '12.' |
VOL. II.
| Page | 13. | Omit note 1. |
| Page„ | 19, | note 5. For 'Eungchön' read 'Ungchön.' |
| Page„ | 20, | l. 5. For 'Eunchol' read 'Eunsol.' |
| Page„ | 127, | note 5. Omit 'In modern times,' etc. |
| Page„ | 148. | Add to note 2:—'The authenticity of the "Kiujiki" was never disputed until the time of Motoöri and Hirata. The former ("Kojikiden" i. 20) condemns it as a forgery. He says, however, that it is not a mere invention, but compiled from the "Kojiki" and "Nihongi." If any one doubts this let him, Motoöri says, read the "Age of the Gods," comparing the accounts given in the three works. He will find in the "Kiujiki" an incongruous mixture of style, and also that the same event has been narrated in two different forms. The difference in the Chinese characters used for writing the same proper names is especially conspicuous. Sometimes the "Kogojiui" has been resorted to, and such passages are easily distinguished as they are copied word for word. There are, however, passages not to be found elsewhere, probably taken from some old work, and the MSS. are useful for correcting the text of the "Nihongi." To these observations of Motoöri it may be added that the "Kiujiki" contains an account of the death of Shōtoku Daishi, its supposed author, which must have been added a long time after (probably from the "Nihongi"), as it has the expression "the men of that day." We should also remember the positive statement of the "Nihongi" (p. 193) that the greater part of the "Kiujiki" was destroyed by fire in A.D. 645.
Notwithstanding all this, I incline to the opinion that the "Kiujiki," with the exception of the final passage which relates the death of Shōtoku Daishi, is authentic. Motoöri hardly |
