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Japanese Confucianism Kiri Paramore Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05865-1 — Japanese Confucianism Kiri Paramore Index More Information Index Action Française, 189 religious and political vision, 30 agricultural innovation and reform, 51 rise of, 44 alternate attendance system social reading, 89 (sankinko¯tai),70 Tendai Buddhism, 38 American Civil War, 124 Way of Heaven texts and, 50 Amino Yoshihiko, 23 Zen Buddhism, 17, 31, 32–35, 38 anti-Christian tradition in bunbu ryo¯do¯, 72, 82 Japan, 148 Bushi practice, 136 anti-elitism, 176 anti-Semitism, 9 capitalism, 119, 130–136, 188 anti-Siniticism, 9. see also Sinophobia carnal desire, 80 anti-Western sentiment, 119 Catholicism, 47. see also Christianity Arai Hakuseki, 47, 101 “Central Kingdom” (chu¯goku), 64, 175 Asai no So¯zui, 96 Cheng Hao, 45, 52, 111 Association for the Propagation of Japanese Cheng Yi, 45, 52, 60, 111 Confucianism Nihon jukyo¯senyo¯ Cheng Ziming, 96, 99 kai, 157 Chiang Kai-shek, 160, 165, 188, 189 authoritarianism, 166, 191 Chikamatsu Monzaemon, 75–77 China, occupied, 161–162 Ban Gu, 5 Chinese Civil War, 174 Bansho wage goyo¯ (barbarian document Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 10, translation service), 108 159, 186 Barbarian Documents Research Center Chinese Confucianism, 185–191. see also (bansho shirabesho). see Shogunal East Asian Confucianism Institute of Western Learning Chinese dynastic codes, 26 barbarian identity, 22–23 Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), 159, Bencao (Herb Canon), 109 161–162, 186 Bingo Mihara Rebellion, 91 Choson Korea, 66, 163 Bito¯Jishu¯, 78, 87, 88, 92 Christianity Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice, 47 Catholicism, 47 Bodiford, William, 39 Confucianism vs., 150 book learning, 73 introduction, 7, 8 The Book of Rites, 20, 22 Meiji conversion to, 139 Buddhism morality, 126 attacks on, 143 role under Meiji modernization, 148 Chinese revival of, 186 Christian Mission in China, 158 Confucian revival link to, 190 Church of England, 200n10 impact of, 16 Classics, 109 introduction, 6, 7, 8, 13 colonial Korea, 162–164, 165f medieval Confucianism as, 31–32 “Conciliation Association” Kyo¯cho¯kai, 154 modernization attempts, 151 Confucian activism, 131, 155 225 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05865-1 — Japanese Confucianism Kiri Paramore Index More Information 226 Index Confucian state academy. see Shogunal occupied China, 161–162 Confucian Academy overview, 157–158 Confucius, 5–6 reinvigoration as conservatism, 153–157 Confucius Analects trans-war period and fascism, 164–166 encouraging child readers of, 180 Fifteen Years War (1931–1945), 157 first printings of, 96 filial piety, 76, 149, 164 Japanese education post-1945, 167 Fillmore, Millard, 122 overview, 45 First Sino-Japanese War (1894), 152, 153 plain reading, 84 The Five Classics of Confucianism, 44–45, preference for rites, 20–21 63, 109 conservatism Five Mountains Zen Buddhism (Gozan failure of, 162 Zen), 17, 31, 32, 36, 38 fascism and, 160, 170, 173, 185 The Four Books of Confucianism introduction, 2 Chinese medical curriculum, 109 national education and, 152 Military Learning, 54 as negative social force, 173 overview, 44–45 radical conservatism, 186, 189 plain reading, 84 reactionary conservatism, 191 rejection of, 62 relationship between, 15 scholarly skills based around, 82 Constitutional Convention of the Japanese Fujita Yu¯koku, 110 Empire, 142 Fuji TV, 180 critical politics, 3–4, 8 Fujiwara Seika, 32, 56–57, 58 cultural capital, 13, 16–18 Fukuzawa Yukichi, 123, 125, 127, 148 culture, 69–78 funerary rites, 36 Furen liangfang daquan text,96 Daoism fuxing practice, 62 impact of, 16 influence on Tang dynasty, 25 gaku (“learning”), 68 introduction, 7 Gido¯Shu¯shin, 35 de Bary, William Theodore, 187 global high imperialism, 9 democracy, 164 Goto¯Konzan, 98 Doctrine of the Mean, 84, 129, 134 Gozan Zen culture. see Five Mountains Zen Domainal Confucian academies, 115, 146 Buddhism Dutch Learning, 74, 89 Greater Learning,80–81 early modernity, 13–14 Han dynasty (206BC-220CE) East Asian Confucianism, 183–191 Confucianism defined by, 20–21 East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, 165 feudal order and its customs during, 63 emishi. see barbarian identity institutionalization of Confucianism, 24 ether, 55, 56. see also ki; qi introduction, 5 ethics, 48–49 Japanese Confucian theory, 34 ethno-centric nationalism, 188 Old Text movement, 183 European intelligentsia, 9 Qing-favored treatises, 113 “everyday life” (seikatsu), 175 Han ethnic nationalism, 188 Examination System, 82–84, 85f Han Yu, 129 harmony, 19–20 fascism Hattori Unokichi, 154, 156 as anti-Modern, 146–149 Hayashi Kinpo¯, 105 colonial Korea, 162–164, 165f Hayashi Razan, 42, 43, 52, 56–58, 88, 159 as colonizing mission, 158–160 Hayashi Shihei, 110 Confucianism as philosophy, 149–153 heart/mind, 49–51, 52, 55, 58, 81. see also introduction, 4, 15, 141, 144f xinfa in Manchuria, 160–161 Heaven’s Mandate, 61 Meiji state suppression of Confucianism, Heaven’s Will, 133–134 141–146 Hegel, G.W.F., 95 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05865-1 — Japanese Confucianism Kiri Paramore Index More Information Index 227 heritage, 177–182 “Japanese intellectual history” nihon Hirata Atsutane, 119, 142 shiso¯shi, 180 Hirohito, Emperor, 1, 7 Japanese language poetry, 77 Ho¯jo¯ Ujinaga, 54 Japanese nationalism, 64 Hoshina Masayuki, 58, 59–60 Japanese Self-Defense Forces, 170 Huntington, Samuel, 10 Japanese Society for Philosophy, 150 Hu Shih, 160, 165 Japan Socialist Party, 172 Jesuit missionaries, 150 Ichijo¯Kanera, 39 Jiang Qing, 185, 188–189 Igakukan. see Shogunal Medical Academy Jingui yaolue (Essential Prescriptions from Igakukan gakuki rules, 109 the Golden Cabinet), 109 Ikeda Mitsumasa, 51 Jo¯do Shinshu¯(Shin-sect) Buddhism, 47 Ikuta Yorozu, 92 Judo, 80. see also Kito¯ryu¯Ju¯jitsu impartial mind idea, 87, 88 Ju¯jikai political work, 110 imperialism, 9, 30, 111, 127, 164 Jujitsu, 80–82, 83, 86, 135. see also Kito¯ryu¯ Imperial Rescript on Education, 134, Ju¯jitsu 136, 152 individualism Kagawa Shu¯an, 98, 102 capitalism and, 131 Kaibara Ekken, 43, 74, 97 impact of, 135 Kaidoku. see social reading “independent self respect,” 134 Kaikoku heidan, 110 liberal system and, 128 Kaji Nobuyuki, 180 Shibusawa outlook on, 134 Kamakura Shogunate, 32, 36 Tokugawa role and, 133 Kang, David, 11–12 ultra-individualism and, 4 kangaku juku learning academies, 137 Inoue Enryo¯, 151 Kang Xiaoguang, 10–11, 185 Inoue Testujiro¯, 148, 150, 151–152, 187 Kang Youwei, 142, 184, 188 Ishikawa Tadahisa, 181 Kano¯Jigoro¯, 80 Islam, 7 Kansei Reforms (1787–1793), 99, Itagaki Taisuke, 149 104–108, 112f Ito¯Hirobumi, 138, 142 Katayama Sen, 136–140 Ito¯Jinsai, 97, 98 Katayama Tetsu, 169 Kato¯Masanosuke, 157 Japanese Communist Party, 173 Katsu Kaishu¯, 123 Japanese Confucianism. see also conserva- Katsushika Hokusai, 77 tism; East Asian Confucianism; Keisaishin text, 59 fascism; knowledge and Kenkei kai, 153 Confucianism; liberalism; public Kepler, Johannes, 108 sphere Confucianism; religion and ki, 80, 81. see also ether; qi Confucianism; taboo nature of Kingly Way ideology, 159, 199n9 Confucianism Kito¯ryu¯Ju¯jitsu,80–81 capitalism and, 119, 130–136, 188 Kiyohara Nobutaka, 39 defined, 5–10 knowledge and Confucianism denial of religiosity in, 151–152 introduction, 14, 94–96 institutionalism of, 24–31 Kansei Reforms, 99, 104–108, 112f introduction, 1–5 Kyo¯ho¯ reforms, 99, 100–104 medieval Confucianism, 31–40, Meiji state and, 114–117 modernity and Confucianism, 3, 10–12, private sphere dissemination, 96–99 14–15 sociological sphere of, 196n1 as philosophy, 149–153 state institutionalization of, 99–100 practice of, 5 Tokugawa state and Westernization, relativism and, 4 108–114 resistance to Westernization, 118 Kobe-han school Kyo¯rindo¯,87 science and, 4 Koga Kin’ichiro¯, 114, 145 Japanese Confucian theory, 34 Kogakuha. see School of Ancient Learning © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05865-1 — Japanese Confucianism Kiri Paramore Index More Information 228 Index Koga Seiri, 78, 88, 110 McCarthyism in U.S., 169 Koga To¯an, 92, 114 medieval Confucianism, 31–40, Koishikawa Botanical Gardens, 104 Medieval Japan (12CE-16CE), 17 Kojiki,18 Meiji state/Restoration Kojima Tsuyoshi, 179, 180 anti-religious policy of, 141 kokugaku. see National Learning Confucianism limits under, 139 Kokuze Sanron (Three Theses on State knowledge and Confucianism, 14, Policy), 120 114–117 Korean Confucians, 163 Neo-Confucianism practice during, 67 Kornicki, Peter, 16, 193n2 role of Christianity under, 148 Koyanagi Shigeta, 155 suppression of Confucianism, Ko¯yu igen medical treaty, 98 141–146, 147 Ku¯kai, 28 Tokugawa period influence, 58, 115 Kuki Takamura, 80 Westernizing of, 9 Kumazawa Banzan, 42, 58, 67, 91 Mencius text, 62, 84, 134, 183 Kuomintang (KMT). see Chinese “Method of the Heart-Mind,” 49–50, 56 Nationalist Party Military Learning/Military Thought, 44, Kurozumi Makoto, 76, 138 47, 53–56, 59, 61 Kyo¯ho¯ reforms (1716–1745), 99, 100–104 Mill, J. S., 126, 148 Kyokuron jiji fu¯ji (A Secret Memorial on the Minamoto Ryo¯en, 76, 177, 199n5 Urgency of Current Affairs), 110, 111 Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 24, 44, 66, 96 Mingfang lei zheng yishu daquan Leiden University, 124 (Encyclopedia of Medicine), 96 leisure learning, 70–74, 89 Minomura Rizaemon, 130 Liang Qichao, 142, 150, 184, 190 Mishima Yukio, 168, 170–172, 182 liberalism Mitani Hiroshi, 178 capitalism and, 130–136 Mito Confucian Aizawa Seishisai’s New influences, 133 Theses, 142 introduction, 4, 118–119 Miura Baien, 110 overview, 126–130 Mizuno Rentaro¯, 156 socialism, 136–140 modernity and Confucianism, 3, 10–12, Western statecraft, 119–126 14–15 Lingshu (Spritual Pivot), 109 Motoda Eifu, 149, 150 linguistic knowledge, 29 Mou Zongsan, 185 Li Zhu, 97 Muhammad, Prophet, 6 Muro Kyu¯so, 83, 101 Maeda Tsutomu, 53, 86, 88 Muromachi shogunate, 34, 36 Makabe Jin, 105, 145 Manchukuo state Confucianism, 1–2 Nagasaki Interpreters, 103.
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