《日本书纪》中的猴与政治叙事

The Monkey and Political Narrative in Nihonshoki

文章通过细致的文本分析,发现日本最早的奉敕编纂的正史《日本书纪》中的猴在出现之初虽然只是狩猎对象,但已经与天皇的政治活动密切相关,其后更是以政治隐喻的形式出现在谶谣等借鉴自古代中国的政治预言形式中,甚至被奉为日本皇室祖神的使者;在政教合一色彩尤为强烈的天武天皇时代,为了维护天皇制中央集权体制的神圣性和正统性,发挥佛教等宗教镇护国家的作用,猴还被列入禁猎禁食动物的名单,其与政治的紧密联系及神圣地位进一步得到巩固。

Through a meticulous textual analysis,this article finds that the monkeys in Japan's earliest official history,Nihonshoki,although they were only hunting targets at the beginning of their appearance,have been closely related to the emperor's political activities,and later became political metaphors.The form of the book appeared as political prophecies drawn from ancient China,such as the augury ballad,and was even enshrined as an ambassador of Japan's royal family.In the Tenmu Emperor's era when politics and religion were particularly strong,in order to maintain the sanctity and centralized orthodoxy of the emperor system,monkeys played a role in protecting Buddhism and were also included in the list of banned feasting animals.In this way,monkeys close ties with politics and their sacred position were further consolidated.