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that Imbe-no-Hironari desired to claim the same high position for his own divine ancestor Takamimusubi-no-Kami as that of the Divine Imperial Ancestress Amaterasu-O-Mikami herself. Therefore, K. Nasa or Kusakabe published his contradiction of the Kogoshui account styling his book Gisai or My Inability to agree with Imbe-no-Hironari (or, shortly Kusakabe’s Critique on Imbe-no-Hironari’s Kogoshui). At the same time one must remember that the Kogoshui records a tradition specially transmitted to and preserved by the House of Imbe, just as the Nihongi preserves various traditions as different versions of one and the same event and so, one may reasonably conclude that the value of the Kogoshui is equal to that of the family records preserved by the Takahashi Family, the Hata Family,[1] and so forth. From this standpoint, it appears that Moto-ori and Hirata greatly sympathize with Imbe-no-Hironari’s attitude against the author K. Kusakabe (Vide Moto-ori, The Gisai Ben. Collected Works, Japanese edition. Vol. V, pp. 1445–1447).
Chapter III
The Date of the Book Kogoshui Examined
The most popular edition of the Kogoshui circulated in Japan relates that the Kogoshui was first written by Imbe-no-Hironari himself on the 13th day of the second month in the second year
- ↑ For example, the Takahashi-Ujibumi, the Hata-Uji-no-Honkeicho, etc.
