Shinto Commentary - Shinto Koshaku

Japanese: 神道講釈 - しんとうこうしゃく

A type of storytelling. Originally, Shinto kosaku was a lecture on Shinto, an indigenous Japanese folk belief, but when it was given to lay kosaku by popular kosakuists, it became a kind of storytelling art. Its history is almost the same as the rise of kosaku as a storytelling art, and Masuho no Koguchi published Endotsugan in 1715 (5th year of Shotoku), which is a famous Shinto kosaku that is a discussion of the national polity and a return to the ancient ways, focusing on the viewpoint of harmony between men and women. Zanguchi lectured on the idea of the unity of the three religions, namely, "Shinto as the master, Confucianism, and Buddhism as the subordinate," and it is said that his position was based on Yoshida Shinto, to which he added Ise Shinto.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

講談の一種。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。

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