Скачать или смотреть No, you can not use a mytho-historical text as the sole basis of your argument

And yes, I will die on this hill.

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In this video I argue that many scholar's failure to critically investigate the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki is (whether consciously or unconsciously) just a veiled attempt at refusing to challenge official nationalist narratives in Japan that continue to revere the Emperor as a god and center Japan as a nation that has existed as it is now since the dawn of humanity, when realistically neither of those things are true. I point to Himiko as a example as many scholars are adamant that her Kingdom was in the Nara Basin and that she is a lesser family member related to an Emperor somewhere in the Kojiki/Nihon Shoki despite having been described as a leader of a confederation of chiefdoms, who was voted into power after eighty years of civil war - which does not line up with the official narrative at all. Anyway its a pet peeve of mine so thanks for listening to me yap about it.

Big Recommend:
J.Edward Kidder "Himiko and Japan's Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History, and Mythology"