Publication announcement: Japan's Imperial Mythology

[Raji Steineck]

Dear colleagues,

please allow me to share the announcement of a new publication on Japan's Imperial Mythology that covers all periods. Edited by Klaus Antoni, Julia Dolkovski, and Louise Neubronner, it comes with an impressive line-up of authors and topics—see the table of contents pasted below.

The book is available in open access under the following link:

https://metadata.lit-verlag.de/downloads/91616-7/9783643916167.pdf

Kind regards,

Raji Steineck

MYTH IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

1. Hirafuji Kikuko

Kojiki Myth and the Jōmon Period

in Relation to Postwar Nationalism 1

2. Julia Dolkovski

Connecting Japan to its Mythological Past:

A Discussion of Takeda Tsuneyasu’s Gendaigo Kojiki 21

3. Jun’ichi Isomae

The Return from the Land of the Dead:

Considering the Nuclear Disaster of Fukushima 47

4. Daniel Schley

A Concealed Nature in Miki Kiyoshi’s

and Maruyama Masao’s Theories on Myth 71

MYTH AND NATIONALISM IN MODERN JAPAN

5. Marcin Lisiecki

Kojiki and the Sacralization of Political Power

in Japan: The Case of the Kokutai no hongi

1056. Michael Wachutka

Propagating Japan’s Spiritual Culture:

Editorial Compilation and Exegetical

Dissemination of Shinto’s “Sacred Scriptures” 127

7. Sarah Rebecca Schmid

Myth and Historiography:

Jingū kōgō in Meiji Period Print Media 155

JAPANESE MYTH IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

8. Judith Árokay

The Power of Language: Edo Period Poetic

Discourse on the Spoken and the Written Word 191

9. Louise Neubronner

On the Fringes of Imperial Mythology:

Peter Kempermann and the Divine Script 217

10. Matthieu Felt

Rethinking Motoori Norinaga and Nihon shoki 245

11. David Weiss

A Confucian Founding Myth for the Japanese State:

Wu Taibo as Progenitor of the Imperial Line 269

MYTH IN PRE-MODERN JAPAN

12. Klaus Antoni

Kōki – the “Imperial Calendar”: On the Myth of

Jinmu Tennō and the Invention of the Year 660 BCE

29313. Raji Steineck

Work on Myth in Medieval Japan:

Zeami’s “Golden Island” 325

14. Maral Andassova

The Emperors in the Kojiki: Exploring Their

Relationships with Local Deities 349

15. Kazuo Matsumura

Reconsidering the Mythology of Goddesses: With Special

Reference to the Kingship-protecting Sun Goddess 375

[Ross Bender]

Thank you Dr. Steineck for this gift. I have looked briefly at Michael Wachutka on Shinten,  Sarah Rebecca Schmid on Jingu Kogo in Meijit print media, and Matthieu Felt's musing on Norinaga and the Nihon Shoki.

This open access is extremely generous.

Ross Bender

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[Raji Steineck]

Thank you for your kind note. The gift is from Prof. Antoni and his sources of funding—I was simply the messenger.

Kind regards,

Raji Steineck

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[Ross Bender]

To clear up a misunderstanding, when Dr. Antoni first published his advertisement of the book on July 31, he mentioned that it would soon be available as an open access ebook:

"The volume is distributed by the publishing house LIT-Verlag and will shortly be freely available as an e-book under the DOI: https://doi.org/10.52038/9783643916167."

Unfortunately that link did not work at the time, so when Dr Steineck posted his own blurb on August 13 he included this link -- https://metadata.lit-verlag.de/downloads/91616-7/9783643916167.pdf

That immediately worked. BTW I wrote to Klaus Antoni about this and he acknowledged the problem, but currently both links are working. Hooray! This is an excellent work. I have already posted about Dr Schmid's chapter on JIngu Kogo, and there are plenty more exciting pieces to explore.

Ross Bender

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