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the Fifth or a higher Court Rank, and also at the same time he should always be appointed by divination.[errata 1]
“So in sending Imperial envoys to a shrine to present offerings other than the regular sacrifices established by the administrative law, both the Nakatomi and the Imbe should be appointed, and all other things divine be conducted in strict accordance with the Shinto administrative law” (The Nihonkoki, Vol. XIV. The Kokushi Taikei, Japanese edition. Vol. III, p. 77).
Chapter IV
The Text and Its Commentaries
There are different manuscripts of Kogoshui, for instance, the Urabe manuscript (derived from the Heiman manuscript), the Ise, the Hirano and the Horyuji manuscripts existing as early as A.D. 1239, ttie facsimile of which was made by Mikanagi-Kiyonao of Ise in A.D. 1847, the Temmon manuscript, the facsimile of which was made by the late Dr. Inoue-Yorikuni some years ago. The oldest manuscript still extant and preserved in the Yoshida Family of Kyoto is a manuscript written in A.D. 1225 (the first year of Karoku). The second oldest manuscripts which are now preserved by Marquis Maeda-Toshitame in Tokyo, formerly the feudal lord of Kaga, seem to have been made a little later than the Karoku manuscript. We can say for certain that the block-printed book of Kogoshui was already in existence in A.D. 1685, when at the latest, Tatsuno-Hirochika published
