日本 明治時代 木村正辭ㆍ島田重禮의 百濟 王仁 鍾繇 『千字文』 日本 傳播 確認論ㆍ否定論 論爭 = Kimura Masagoto’s Affirmative and Shimada Chorei’s Negative Arguments in Japan's Meiji Era Over the Transmission of Wangin Zhongyao's The Thousand-Character Text from Baekje

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Today, Japan's The Japan Academy is a national institution similar in nature to Korea's National Academy of Sciences, with its predecessor being The Tokyo Academy, established in 1879. The following year, in 1880, its official journal, Transactions of the Tokyo Academy, was launched. A distinctive feature of this journal was that it published not only papers presented by members within the academy but also counterarguments to those papers. A representative example among these was the debate between members Kimura Masagoto and Simada Chorei concerning the confirmation and denial of the fact that Wangin of Baekje transmitted Zhong Yao's The Thousand-Character Text to Japan.
Simada Chorei's criticism argued that the document claiming to include Zhong Yao's The Thousand-Character Text was a later forgery and therefore unreliable, and that the very claim that Zhong Yao's The Thousand-Character Text existed was itself erroneous. In response, Kimura Masagoto countered by specifically citing multiple book titles to refute the claim, asserting that the text disseminated in Japan by Baekje Wangin was indeed Zhong Yao's The Thousand-Character Text. However, Simada Chorei persistently refused to acknowledge the scholarly value of Zhong Yao's Thousand-Character Text and its annotated editions, thereby inevitably inviting Kimura Masagoto's counter-rebuttal. Since Simada Chorei did not raise further objections, the debate concluded.
Subsequently, Kimura Masagoto's Affirmation Theory likely came to be regarded by the general public as the more reasonable position. However, it is confirmed that Kimura Masagoto's Affirmation Theory was not mentioned at all, while Simada Chorei's Negation Theory was first inserted and listed in the 1926 new edition of the Japan's first and only biographical dictionary Dainihon Jinmei Jisho, and its listing continued unchanged in subsequent editions such as the 1937 revised edition. This outcome is believed to stem from the influence exerted by Kuroita Katsumi, then a professor in the Department of National History at Tokyo Imperial University and leader of the National History School, over the editing of the Dainihon Jinmei Jisho new edition. This illustrates how dominant the National History School figures were in Japanese historical academia at that time.