Matthieu Felt: Meanings of antiquity: myth interpretation in premodern Japan

Hyde, B.V.E. (author)

Matthieu Felt aims to show that the Japanese myth of the creation of the nation (kuniumi) does not exist outside of history but is instead a product of history, and that its interpretation has changed as the times changed. His argument is that Japanese myths are alive and continually adapting to the context in which they live, and he narrates these changes in meaning over time.

• Language: English
• Keywords: antiquity, premodern Japan, Japan, Japanese myth, Japanese philosophy
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.19 - Review, Book Review, Critique
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 367-371
• Numbering: Vol. 13, no. 3
• ISSN on article: 2232-5131
• DOI: 10.4312/as.2025.13.3.367-371
• Publication date in RUL: 05.11.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Asian studies = Azijske študije
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2232-5131
• COBISS.SI-ID: 265206272

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: stari vek, predmoderna Japonska, Japonska, japonski miti, japonska filozofija