10-27-2014, 07:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-27-2014, 07:46 PM by Bharatvarsh2.)
Yes a Bauddha appropriation of Ushas. I don't know if Ushas was known in Japan before Buddhism, there is a book by David Hall on the significance of Marishiten and her rituals to the Samurai but I haven't yet had time to read it.
www.surajamrita.com/yoga/hidden/disser/Marishiten.pdf
Aizawa was a Confucian & follower of Shinto also, he had a very a big influence on Shinto in the modern period because his Shinron was the single most influential text in the Bakumatsu period among those who contributed to the Meiji restoration & many of his ideas were adopted by the new Meiji gov't.
Parts of it can be read here:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.to..._4_6_7.pdf
Also the link you provided has the wrong date for the publication of Shinron, it was written in 1825 (not 1811) in classical Chinese for the eyes of his daimyo only and not intended for general circulation. It was later that Japanese translations appeared and the ideas spread.
The full translation is available in the Bob Wakabayashi book "Anti Foreignism..."
www.surajamrita.com/yoga/hidden/disser/Marishiten.pdf
Aizawa was a Confucian & follower of Shinto also, he had a very a big influence on Shinto in the modern period because his Shinron was the single most influential text in the Bakumatsu period among those who contributed to the Meiji restoration & many of his ideas were adopted by the new Meiji gov't.
Parts of it can be read here:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.to..._4_6_7.pdf
Also the link you provided has the wrong date for the publication of Shinron, it was written in 1825 (not 1811) in classical Chinese for the eyes of his daimyo only and not intended for general circulation. It was later that Japanese translations appeared and the ideas spread.
The full translation is available in the Bob Wakabayashi book "Anti Foreignism..."