CONTENTS
Volume One
HISTORY
Introduction ...... 3 John A. Tucker
1. Ritsuryō Confucianism ...... 13 Charles Holcombe
2. The Confucian Teacher in Tokugawa Japan ...... 41 John Whitney Hall
3. Neo-Confucian Orthodoxies and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart in Early Tokugawa Japan ...... 81 Wm. Theodore de Bary
4. The Naturalization of Confucianism in Tokugawa Japan: The Problem of Sinocentrism ...... 109 Kate Wildman Nakai
5. Neo-Confucianism and the Formation of Early Tokugawa Ideology: Contours of a Problem ...... 149 Herman Ooms
6. Beixi’s ‘Ziyi’ and Ancient Learning Philosophical Lexicography ...... 185 John A. Tucker
7. Tokugawa Confucian Historiography: The Hayashi, Early Mito School and Arai Hakuseki ...... 207 Kate Wildman Nakai vi contents
8. Confucian Perspectives on the Akō Revenge: Law and Moral Agency ...... 239 Ian James McMullen
9. Intellectual Change in Early Eighteenth-Century Tokugawa Confucianism ...... 265 Tetsuo Najita
10. The Legacy of Tokugawa Education ...... 285 Ronald P. Dore
11. Motoda Eifu: Confucian Lecturer to the Meiji Emperor ...... 313 Donald H. Shively
12. Tokugawa Confucianism and Its Meiji Japan Reconstruction ... 351 Kurozumi Makoto
13. Confucianism and the Japanese State, 1904–1945 ...... 373 Samuel Hideo Yamashita
14. The Legacy of Confucianism in Japan ...... 401 Martin Collcutt
Volume Two
PHILOSOPHY
Introduction ...... 449 John A. Tucker
15. Two Kinds of Neo-Confucianism: A Comparison of Fujiwara Seika and Hayashi Razan ...... 461 W.J. Boot
16. Between Principle and Situation: Contrasting Styles in the Japanese and Korean Traditions of Moral Culture ...... 479 Chai-sik Chung
17. Reappraising Razan: The Legacy of Philosophical Lexicography ... 509 John A. Tucker contents vii
18. Introduction to “The Nature of Early Tokugawa Confucianism” by Kurozumi Makoto ...... 535 Herman Ooms
19. The Nature of Early Tokugawa Confucianism ...... 541 Kurozumi Makoto
20. Nakae Tōju and the Birth of Wang Yang-ming Learning in Japan ...... 585 Barry Steben
21. From Nativism to Numerology: Yamaga Sokō’s Final Excusion into the Metaphysics of Change ...... 619 John A. Tucker
22. Itō Jinsai on Confucius’ Analects: A Type of Confucian Hermeneutics in East Asia ...... 647 Chun-Chieh Huang
23. Reinterpreting the Analects: History and Utility in the Thought of Ogyū Sorai ...... 675 Ian James McMullen
24. Human Nature: Singular (China) and Plural (Japan)? ...... 731 Herman Ooms
25. Picturing the Universe: Adventures with Miura Baien at the Borderland of Philosophy and Science ...... 749 Rosemary Mercer
26. Nakae Chōmin and Confucianism ...... 775 Sannosuke Matsumoto
27. Katō Hiroyuki and Confucian Natural Rights, 1861–1870 ...... 793 Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
28. Confucianism and Human Rights in Meiji Japan ...... 817 John A. Tucker
29. The Civil Theology of Inoue Tetsujirō ...... 843 Winston Davis viii contents
30. Western Science and Japanese Neo-Confucianism: A History of Their Interaction and Transformation ...... 871 Roald E. Kristiansen
Volume Three
RELIGION
Introduction ...... 903 John A. Tucker
31. Religious Dimensions of Confucianism: Cosmology and Cultivation ...... 911 Mary Evelyn Tucker
32. The Worship of Confucius in Ancient Japan ...... 953 Ian James McMullen
33. Early Japanese Christian Thought Reexamined: Confucian Ethics, Catholic Authority, and the Issue of Faith in the Scholastic Theories of Habian, Gomez, and Ricci ...... 995 Kiri Paramore
34. “Primeval Chaos” and “Mental Void” in Early Tokugawa Ideology: Fujiwara Seika, Suzuki Shōsan, and Yamazaki Ansai ...... 1029 Herman Ooms
35. Religious Aspects of Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Thought of Nakae Tōju and Kaibara Ekken ...... 1045 Mary Evelyn Tucker
36. Unspeakable Things: Sai On’s Ambivalent Critique of Language and Buddhism ...... 1061 Gregory Smits
37. Ghosts and Spirits in Tokugawa Japan: The Confucian Views of Itō Jinsai ...... 1077 John A. Tucker contents ix
38. The I Ching in the Shinto Thought of Tokugawa Japan ...... 1099 Wai-ming Ng
39. Rethinking the Akō Ronin Debate: The Religious Signifijicance of Chūshin gishi ...... 1123 John A. Tucker
40. Jiun Sonja (1718–1804): A Response to Confucianism within the Context of Buddhist Reform ...... 1159 Paul B. Watt
41. Quiet-Sitting and Political Activism: The Thought and Practice of Satō Naokata ...... 1187 John A. Tucker
42. Mind and Morality in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Religions: Misogi-kyō and Maruyama-kyō ...... 1225 Janine Anderson Sawada
43. Religious Conflict in Bakumatsu Japan: Zen Master Imakita Kōsen and Confucian Scholar Higashi Takusha ...... 1259 Janine Anderson Sawada
44. The Idea of Heaven: A Tokugawa Foundation for Natural Rights Theory ...... 1279 Sannosuke Matsumoto
45. On the Boundary between “Religious” and “Secular”: The Ideal and Practice of Neo-Confucian Self-cultivation in Modern Japanese Economic Life ...... 1299 Gregory K. Ornatowski
Volume Four
TRANSLATIONS
Introduction ...... 1333 John A. Tucker x contents
46. Fujiwara Seika and the Great Learning ...... 1339 Richard Bowring
47. A Translation-Study of the Kana Shōri (Neo-Confucian Terms for Japanese) ...... 1365 John A. Tucker
48. Yamaga Sokō’s Seikyō yōroku: An English Translation (Part One) ...... 1421 John A. Tucker
49. Yamaga Sokō’s Seikyō yōroku: An English Translation and Analysis (Part Two) ...... 1443 John A. Tucker
50. Yamaga Sokō’s Seikyō yōroku: An English Translation and Analysis (Part Three) ...... 1455 John A. Tucker
51. Last Testament in Exile: Yamaga Sokō’s Haisho Zampitsu ...... 1467 Shuzo Uenaka
52. Buddhism as Viewed by Two Tokugawa Confucianists: Itō Jinsai’s Letter to Dōkō and Its Refutation by Satō Naokata ...... 1501 Joseph John Spae
53. Grappling with Chinese Writing as a Material Language: Ogyū Sorai’s Yakubunsentei ...... 1527 Emanuel Pastreich
54. Ogyū Sorai’s Instructions for Students: A Translation and Commentary ...... 1575 Richard H. Minear
55. Hakuseki on Spirits: An Analysis of Arai Hakuseki’s “Kishinron” ...... 1645 Kate Wildman Nakai
Index Nominum ...... 1685