Honcho tsugan

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  • Japanese: 本朝通鑑 (honchou tsugan)

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

References

  • Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur Tiedemann (eds.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, Second Edition, vol. 2, Columbia University Press (2005), 68.