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Work #1647 · Early

Shibun Yōryō

Motoori Norinaga
1763 · Japanese (Classical)
Literary-aesthetic treatise · Kokugaku (Japanese National Learning) / shintō-aesthetic philosophy

Norinaga's 1763 'Shibun Yōryō' — Kokugaku-aesthetic reading of the Genji as the text of mono no aware

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Attribute Shibun Yōryō (Early)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Relational
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Cyclical
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Relational
Space · Curvature not engaged
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Non-local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Relational
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Multiple
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Reversible
Information · Ontological Status Relational
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity not engaged

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

Shibun Yōryō

1763.

Space

Shibun Yōryō

Matsusaka, Ise province.

Matter

Shibun Yōryō

Single literary-aesthetic treatise.

Observer

Shibun Yōryō

Early Norinaga.

Energy

Shibun Yōryō

Founding-Kokugaku aesthetic energies.

Information

Shibun Yōryō

Single short treatise.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Shibun Yōryō

Founding document of the Kokugaku aesthetic; later inflected the entire modern Japanese conception of literature.