Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Kōsō Wasan
Shinran's c.1255 hymns to the Pure-Land patriarchs
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Kōsō Wasan (Mature) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Kōsō Wasan
Composed c. 1255; mature-late Shinran period in Kyoto, after the Kantō missionary years (c. 1207-35).
Space
Kōsō Wasan
Kyoto composition with Kantō rural-and-temple-network audience; subsequent diffusion across the Honganji-and-Ōtani Shinshū lineages throughout Japan and the diaspora.
Matter
Kōsō Wasan
The seven Pure-Land patriarchs and their distinctive doctrinal contributions; Pure-Land doctrinal history from Nāgārjuna through Hōnen.
Observer
Kōsō Wasan
Late Shinran as Honganji-founder and chief Pure-Land doctrinal-pedagogue, working in vernacular wasan-form for lay accessibility.
Energy
Kōsō Wasan
Devotional-pedagogical, lineage-celebratory, vernacular-accessible energies.
Information
Kōsō Wasan
117 vernacular-Japanese hymns; doctrinal-historical-devotional combined; structured around the seven patriarchs and their teachings.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Kōsō Wasan is one of the three component-collections of Shinran's Sanjō Wasan, foundational to subsequent Shinshū doctrinal-devotional formation across Honganji and Ōtani traditions. The patriarch-list (the seven-patriarchs sequence) became the canonical Shinshū account of Pure-Land transmission, distinct from the lineage-accounts of other Pure-Land sub-traditions in China and Japan.