Honcho tsugan

• Japanese: 本朝通鑑 (honchou tsugan)

The Honchô tsugan is a 310-volume work on Japanese history begun by Hayashi Razan (d. 1657) in the 1640s, based on the model of Zhu Xi's Tongjian gangmu. Continued by Razan's son Hayashi Gahô, it was completed by Gahô's son Hayashi Hôkô in 1670.

The work covers the history of Japan from the mythological first emperor, Emperor Jimmu, up through the reign of Emperor Go-Yôzei (r. 1586-1611).

References

• Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur Tiedemann (eds.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, Second Edition, vol. 2, Columbia University Press (2005), 68.
• Luke Roberts, Performing the Great Peace, University of Hawaii Press (2012), 175-.