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Shinkokushi (新国史, lit. 'New National History') is an unfinished Japanese official historical work compiled, in part, by the early Heian period scholar Ōe no Asatsuna , grandson of Ōe no Otondo, who had been one of the compilers of the Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku.[1] After Asatsuna's death in 957, his cousin Ōe no Koretoki became the head compiler. It was supposed to succeed the Six National Histories.[2]
The Shinkokushi is recorded in the Honchō Shojoku Mokuroku as having forty volumes and covering the reigns of Emperor Uda (887-897) to Emperor Daigo (897-930). However a later work, the Shūgaisho , states that the Shinkokushi was fifty volumes and included the reign of Emperor Suzaku (930-946) as well as Uda and Daigo.[1] Because of the differences in size, lack of a formal title, and that no record of a presentation of the work survives, it is believed that the Shinkokushi was an unfinished manuscript.[1][3] As a manuscript, the entirety of the Shinkokushi does not survive but instead portions of it have been passed down in other works.