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.
Yuishinshō Mon'i
Shinran's 1255 commentary on Seikaku's Yuishinshō
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Yuishinshō Mon'i (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 | Passive |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| 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
Yuishinshō Mon'i
Composed 1255; late-Shinran period in Kyoto, two years after the Kōsō Wasan.
Space
Yuishinshō Mon'i
Kyoto composition with Kantō follower-network audience; subsequent transmission across the Honganji-and-Ōtani Shinshū lineages.
Matter
Yuishinshō Mon'i
Seikaku's Yuishinshō; the relation between Pure-Land faith and Amida's Primal Vow; the Other-Power reading of shinjin; nembutsu-recitation as grateful response.
Observer
Yuishinshō Mon'i
Late Shinran as elderly doctrinal-pedagogical writer; reinterpreting earlier Pure-Land authors through his mature Other-Power theological lens.
Energy
Yuishinshō Mon'i
Commentarial-doctrinal, devotional-pedagogical, late-life-summary energies.
Information
Yuishinshō Mon'i
Sino-Japanese commentary in compressed-scholarly form; verse-and-passage exposition of Seikaku's text; brief-but-doctrinally-dense.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Yuishinshō Mon'i is one of Shinran's late doctrinal-commentarial writings, central to mature Shinshū formation. The Honganji-and-Ōtani Shinshū traditions treat it as canonical; modern Shinshū-studies scholarship (Hirota, Dobbins, Amstutz) has been integrating it alongside the other late Shinran writings into a fuller picture of Shinran's distinctive Other-Power theology.