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Man'yōdaishōki | 万葉代匠記
Text A comprehensive annotation of the Man'yōshū which consists of a selection of twenty volumes and forty-three books, with a six volume commentary. This work was composed by Keichū The first edition was finished in 1688, and the complete version was finished two years later. The project of writing an annotation of the Man'yōshū was begun by Shimokōbe Chōryū at the request of Tokugawa Mitsukuni. However, after Chōryū's sickness and subsequent death in 1686, the project was continued by Keichū, who was trained by Chōryū in Man'yō research. Mitsukuni was dissatisfied with the first version of the work, and Keichū reexamined each of the volumes and performed additional textual research. Through careful historical research on the origins and usage of Japanese syllabic writing (kana) and the Japanese readings of Chinese characters (kun'yomi ) found in the whole of the Man'yōshū, Keichū corrected and reinterpreted the Japanese readings of the characters used for "man'yō" that had been in use since the early Heian period. Further, Keichū included a history of the Man'yōshū, and an outline of vocabulary found within it, for example, the poetic conventions and place names. The text itself is a groundbreaking commentary that applied the research methods used by Japanese for the study of Siddham – a Sanskrit-based script used by some Buddhist sects in Japan to copy sutras and mantras – to the kana and kun'yomi use found in the Man'yōshū. The Man'yō Daishō ki was Keichū's masterpiece, and Keichū may very well be called the founder of National Learning (kokugaku). Keichū's use of shiddangaku (lit. "Siddham studies") research methodology opened a new period in Man'yō research, but this work is equally groundbreaking in that it took on the Man'yōshū in its entirety as its subject. Katō Chikage would later follow in Keichū's example and write the Man'yōshū ryakuge (1791), another annotation of the entire Man'yōshū. Owing to the success of Keichū's Man'yō Daishō ki, later kokugaku scholars such as Kamono Mabuchi and Motoori Norinaga would further develop Man'yō research. This work is included in the Keichū zenshū (The Complete Works of Keichū), volumes 1 through 7 (1973-75, Iwanami Shoten).
— Mori Mizue

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