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井尻家疎石考 : 甲斐国・別論

On Ijiri House and Soseki : The Existence of Old Kai

jpn

00229741

https://doi.org/10.15002/00007078

法政大学経済学部学会

78

3

7

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2011-02-25

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For many years, I have been trying to certify the existence of Ancient Kai Dynasty, which has been ignored in Japan’s historiography. In this article I intended to show a way to prove the existence of the dynasty. I happened to know that in Kai province there still was an old family called Ijiri Family which had a relationship with a famous Zen priest, Musoh Kokushi, whose real name was Musoh Soseki. I researched his biographical data and found an incredible description that suggested Musoh Kokushi’s proposal of building new ships for the trade with China (called Min at the time) to the shogun, Ashikaga Takauji, and the vice-shogun, Ashikaga Tadayoshi. It must have been quite unusual for a mere Zen priest to do such a proposal to shogun, but the Muromachi shogunate accepted his proposal and built the trade ships to start Japan-China trade. Moreover, Musoh Kokushi erected a Zen temple called Tenryu-ji using the money of the shogunate made by the Japan-China trade. All these facts seem incredibly exceptional, considering the position of Musoh Kokushi. Why could he do that? I assumed that the Ijiri Family held the key to solve this question, because the family supported the Japan-China trade as a guardian of Musoh Kokushi. I also found out that both the trade and the erection of the temple are deeply related to gold, which used to be produced in abundance in ancient Kai province. In this article, I tried to prove that the gold played an important role in the existence of Kai Dynasty.

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