一十多年前,在京都的旧书店偶然购得一册布满灰尘的文库本,题为《玉胜间与初山踏》。作者是二战前后享誉日本古典文学领域的东京大学教授久松潜一(1894-1976)。这本总数不超过一百页、出版于一九四三年二战期间的小册子,以介绍和阐释近代日本国学家本居宣长(1730-1801)的两篇学术随笔为主。在当时,作为《日本精神丛书》中的一册,与众多的学者、文学家的著作一道,从文化思想的角度为国家机器所发 More than a decade ago, an obscure library of books was accidentally purchased from the old bookstore in Kyoto, titled “Yusheng and Chucha Mountain.” The author is a long time before and after World War II, renowned Japanese classical literature professor at the University of Tokyo, a long time (1894-1976). This booklet, no more than one hundred pages in total, was published in a pamphlet published during World War II in 1943 to introduce and explain two academic essays by Benjamin Habitat, a contemporary Japanese scholar (1730-1801). At that time, as one of the “Japanese Spiritual Books”, together with a large number of scholars and writers’ writings, from the perspective of cultural thought made for the state machine