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Japanese: 《艶道通鑑》 - えんどうつがん

…The original purpose of Shinto lectures was to give lectures on Shinto, an indigenous Japanese folk belief, but when popular lecturers took over, it became a kind of storytelling art. Its history is roughly parallel to the rise of kodan as a storytelling art, and Masuho no Koguchi published Endotsugan in 1715 (5th year of Shōtoku), a famous Shinto lecture that is a theory on the national polity centered on the viewpoint of harmony between men and women and a return to the ancient ways. Zankoguchi lectured on the idea of the unity of the three religions, that is, Shinto as the master, Confucianism, and Buddhism as the subordinate, and it is said that his position was based on Yoshida Shinto and added Ise Shinto to it. …

From [Masuho Zanguchi]

…He went to Kyoto and gave popular Shinto storytelling, focusing on love between men and women, and advocating common family morality in the form of Shinto theory, rejecting the Confucian family morality of the time. His works include the Zanko Eight Books, including Endo Tsukan (Book on the pleasure quarters). One of these, Shinro Tebikigusa, is included in the Nihon Shiso Taikei. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Endo Tsukan" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…日本固有の民族信仰である神道を講義するのが本来の神道講釈であるが，これを通俗講釈師が担当したため一種の話芸となった。その歴史は，ほぼ話芸としての講談の興隆とともにあり，1715年(正徳5)に増穂残口（ますほのこぐち）が出した《艶道通鑑（えんどうつがん）》は男女親和の観点を中心とする国体論，古道再帰の論であり，神道講釈書として名高い。残口は〈神主儒仏従〉の三教一致思想を講釈したが，その立場は，吉田神道を根本にして，それに伊勢神道を加えたものであったといわれる。…