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micro-level assertion that the present age is one that is subject to the law
of decline. For Tadachika’s readers, the most relevant takeaway lesson
from this logic would likely have been that nothing is ever truly over:
“Thus ending is beginning, and again ending is beginning. Nothing is
[either] extreme.”
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This specific recourse to a larger macro-level cosmo-
logical narrative, though not taken up by later
Mirrors
, has undeniable
similarities to the metanarrative of the four
kalpas
in the earliest manu-
script tradition of
A Record of the Jōkyū Years
, a later narrative of the J
ō
ky
ū
Disturbance of 1221.
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A similar account of
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