Three major trends in thinking - Taisei San Tenko

A three-volume history book about the end of the Edo period written by Date Chihiro, a feudal retainer of the Kishu Domain. It was completed in 1848 (Kaei 1). It was first published in 1873 (Meiji 6) at the request of Chihiro's son Mutsu Munemitsu and others. This book is a general history of Japan from the time of Emperor Jimmu to the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, divided into three periods, the "Reign of Bones," the "Reign of Offices," and the "Reign of Names," from a unique perspective of the transition of social and political systems, and offers a historical perspective appropriate for the period of change that was the end of the Edo period. In other words, the historical perspective of this book, which combines agnosticism and realistic flexibility, has in effect excluded transcendental absolutes and principles from the historical world, and is considered to have a historical significance that connects traditional historiography with Meiji enlightenment historiography.

[Tadashi Ishige]

"Taisei Santenkou" (translated and annotated by Tadashi Ishige) (included in "Japanese Thought 6: A Collection of Historical Thought", Chikuma Shobo, 1972)

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幕末の歴史書。三巻。紀州藩士伊達千広(だてちひろ)著。1848年（嘉永1）成立。千広の実子陸奥宗光(むつむねみつ)らの懇請によって1873年（明治6）初めて刊行された。本書は社会・政治制度の変遷という独自の視点から、神武(じんむ)天皇から徳川幕府の成立に至るまでの日本史を、「骨(かばね)の代」「職(つかさ)の代」「名の代」の3時代に区分した通史であり、幕末という変革期にふさわしい歴史観が看取される。すなわち、不可知論の立場と現実的応変主義の立場が表裏の関係で結び付いている本書の歴史観は、事実上、歴史的世界から超越的絶対者・原理を締め出してしまっており、伝統的史学と明治啓蒙(けいもう)史学をつなぐ史学史的意義を担っているものとみられるのである。

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『石毛忠校注・訳『大勢三転考』（『日本の思想6　歴史思想集』所収・1972・筑摩書房）』

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