From Dialogue to Mass-logue: Oral Performance within Sekimon Shingaku
Journal
Listen, copy, read : popular learning in early modern Japan
Pages
21-45
Date Issued
2014
Author(s)
Tsujimoto, Masashi
Abstract
This chapter examines Sekimon Shingaku's popularity from a media-historical perspective and argues that it can be traced to a focus on 'speech' - a focus that allowed scholarship to take on the form of an oral performance. It traces the development of Shingaku from Ishida Baigan's epiphany to the creation of the null dōwa , and points out that this development is characterized by a growing emphasis on 'speech' as opposed to 'writing'. Since this development runs parallel to the expansion and popularization of Shingaku as a social movement of moral instruction, one must also surmise that the emphasis on 'speech' was a key factor in achieving this expansion. In this regard, there are two contexts in particular that the author would like to point out as deserving further pursuit. The first context is that of moral instruction. The second context in which Shingaku deserves further attention is that of pedagogical method. null Keywords: Ishida Baigan's epiphany; oral performance; pedagogical method; Sekimon Shingaku; social movement
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book part