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The Origin of “National Writings”: The Formation of the Classics in Modern Japan is an enlargement of the booklet Kokugaku and kangaku in Modern Japan: on the Training Course for Classics at the University of Tokyo. The latter was coauthored Saitō Mareshi and myself and published in 2012 as part of the activities of the University of Global Centers of Excellence: University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy. Of the six chapters in the new book, the first two are a continuation, with some parts revised, of the earlier publication, while Chapters 3-6 contain additional material specific to the publication of this later work. Chapters 1, 4, and 6 are by myself, and Chapters 2, 3, and 5 are by Saitō.
 
Various books written in both vernacular Japanese (wabun) and literary Sinitic (kanbun) formed a single intellectual resource in the premodern era. However, the beginning of the modern period saw the development of a position that only recognized texts written in vernacular Japanese as “National Writings” (kokusho). This made it seem as though “Chinese Writings” (kansho) were discarded, but in truth, they continued to exist as an indispensable resource for the formation of the Modern Japanese language. This book identifies the complex trends related to National Writings and Chinese