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Introduction
I go somewhat further by reading works in a chronicle format as sim-
ilarly validating and promoting a certain “moral” order, a function that
White presents as a potential but not fully realized attribute of the chronicle.
I suggest that this is, in part, possible because even the most chronicle-like
of the
Mirrors
,
The Mirror of the East
, attests to an implicit cosmological
structure behind events, and its final events suggest a morally sanctioned
conclusion: an incompetent shogun is deposed, but the institution of the
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