Buddhist-Confucian Polemics in Seventeenth-Century Japan

The Critics of Hayashi Razan
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72027-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

The History of Thought of the Edo Period is a lively area of research. You have the choice between Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, National Studies, and Dutch Studies, none of which was the state ideology, and all of which were practised together in a small, interactive intellectual world. The intellectuals shared a common language (classical Chinese), and polemics was one of the ways in which they interacted.

This volume contains the new, annotated translations of two of such polemical treatises (dating from 1686 and 1687): two Buddhist monks attacking the "arch-Confucian" Hayashi Razan (1583-1657) in the name of Buddhism and Shinto.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boot, W J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

About This Text: Conventions

Abbreviations

Introductions 1 Honcho jinjako – the Author, Context, and Text 2 Jinjako bengi 3 Fuso gobusshin-ron

1 Honcho Jinjako – Translation

2 Jinjako bengi 1 Introduction – Jinjako bengi: the Text 2 Translation: Fasc. 1 3 Translation: Fasc. 2

3 Fuso gobusshin-ron 1 Introduction – Fuso gobusshin-ron: the Text 2 Translation: Preface 3 Translation: Fascicle 1 4 Translation: Fascicle 2 5 Translation: Fascicle 3

Appendix 1: Ju-Butsu mondo

Appendix 2: Sendai kuji hongi taisei-kyo

Appendix 3: Polemics between Buddhist Priests, Confucian Scholars, and Shinto Priests

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

W.J. Boot took his Ph.D. at Leiden University in 1983, and worked there as professor of Japanese Studies from 1985 till his retirement in 2012. His publications include Tetsugaku Companion to Ogyu Sorai (Springer, 2019; edited together with Takayama Daiki).