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*Japanese:本朝通鑑(Honchô 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|Zhu Xi's]] ''Tongjian gangmu''. Continued by Razan's son [[Hayashi Gaho|Hayashi Gahô]], it was completed by Gahô's son [[Hayashi Hoko|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-Yozei|Emperor Go-Yôzei]] (r. [[1586]]-[[1611]]). However, while the chapters of the work are organized by successive imperial reigns, the text shows great respect for the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa house]], leaving honorific open spaces before terms referring directly to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], [[Tokugawa Hidetada|Hidetada]], or [[Tokugawa Iemitsu|Iemitsu]], and refers to each of these three figures by posthumous deification names; [[Luke Roberts]] contrasts this with the ''[[Dai Nihon Shi]]'', which leaves no honorific spaces when discussing any [[Kamakura shogunate|Minamoto]] or [[Muromachi shogunate|Ashikaga]] [[shogun]]s. In these and other ways, the text is structured so as to emphasize Tokugawa virtue and authority, as derived from the imperial institution.
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==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), 175-178.
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