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The Motivation and Arguments of the Research in the History of Military System of Tang Dynasty in Japanese Academia

Lee, Kichon 1

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The research in the history of Tang dynasty’s military system in Japanese academia has been conducted by ‘the experience of war’ as the time axis and ‘schools of thought’ as the space axis. The early scholars who experienced the war were cognizant of the fact that military system was not the matter of right and wrong but the experience of survival. It originated from the experience of war why scholars of the war generation, such as Hino Kaisaburo who suffered from a spine fracture produced by torpedo attacks, Kurihara Masuo who lost all but one comrade in the war, and Tanigawa Michio who was conscripted into the army as he matriculated at university on the verge of defeat in the war, and scholars of the post-war generation had different perspectives on the military system. Hamaguchi Shigekuni focused on the matter of the biggest anguish of people, namely military service, and Kurihara Masuo compared military provinces in the late Tang to Japan’s warlords in the 1930s by a common denominator ‘mutiny’, and sought an inevitable principle in history which is ‘Restrain Military provinces, Encourage the Cabinet.’ The motive behind their researches also came from the experience of war. Scholars of the war generation were divided into two camps, Tokyo university and Kyoto university. They heavily debated the utility of the conscription system and the burden of military service. On the contrary, scholars of the post-war generation did not have scholarly debates between schools, but rather had a tendency to conduct individual research focusing on specific cases. They tended to focus on excavation of new historical sources and individual research, but have not yet presented ‘the zeitgeist of Tang dynasty.’

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