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1 CONTENTS Volume One HISTORY Introduction Ritsuryō Confucianism Charles Holcombe 2. The Confucian Teacher in Tokugawa Japan John Whitney Hall 3. Neo-Confucian Orthodoxies and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart in Early Tokugawa Japan Wm. Theodore de Bary 4. The Naturalization of Confucianism in Tokugawa Japan: The Problem of Sinocentrism Kate Wildman Nakai 5. Neo-Confucianism and the Formation of Early Tokugawa Ideology: Contours of a Problem Beixi s Ziyi and Ancient Learning Philosophical Lexicography Tokugawa Confucian Historiography: The Hayashi, Early Mito School and Arai Hakuseki Kate Wildman Nakai

2 vi contents 8. Confucian Perspectives on the Akō Revenge: Law and Moral Agency Ian James McMullen 9. Intellectual Change in Early Eighteenth-Century Tokugawa Confucianism Tetsuo Najita 10. The Legacy of Tokugawa Education Ronald P. Dore 11. Motoda Eifu: Confucian Lecturer to the Meiji Emperor Donald H. Shively 12. Tokugawa Confucianism and Its Meiji Japan Reconstruction Kurozumi Makoto 13. Confucianism and the Japanese State, Samuel Hideo Yamashita 14. The Legacy of Confucianism in Japan Martin Collcutt Volume Two PHILOSOPHY Introduction Two Kinds of Neo-Confucianism: A Comparison of Fujiwara Seika and Hayashi Razan W.J. Boot 16. Between Principle and Situation: Contrasting Styles in the Japanese and Korean Traditions of Moral Culture Chai-sik Chung 17. Reappraising Razan: The Legacy of Philosophical Lexicography

3 contents vii 18. Introduction to The Nature of Early Tokugawa Confucianism by Kurozumi Makoto The Nature of Early Tokugawa Confucianism Kurozumi Makoto 20. Nakae Tōju and the Birth of Wang Yang-ming Learning in Japan Barry Steben 21. From Nativism to Numerology: Yamaga Sokō s Final Excusion into the Metaphysics of Change Itō Jinsai on Confucius Analects: A Type of Confucian Hermeneutics in East Asia Chun-Chieh Huang 23. Reinterpreting the Analects: History and Utility in the Thought of Ogyū Sorai Ian James McMullen 24. Human Nature: Singular (China) and Plural (Japan)? Picturing the Universe: Adventures with Miura Baien at the Borderland of Philosophy and Science Rosemary Mercer 26. Nakae Chōmin and Confucianism Sannosuke Matsumoto 27. Katō Hiroyuki and Confucian Natural Rights, Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi 28. Confucianism and Human Rights in Meiji Japan The Civil Theology of Inoue Tetsujirō Winston Davis

4 viii contents 30. Western Science and Japanese Neo-Confucianism: A History of Their Interaction and Transformation Roald E. Kristiansen Volume Three RELIGION Introduction Religious Dimensions of Confucianism: Cosmology and Cultivation Mary Evelyn Tucker 32. The Worship of Confucius in Ancient Japan 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 Kiri Paramore 34. Primeval Chaos and Mental Void in Early Tokugawa Ideology: Fujiwara Seika, Suzuki Shōsan, and Yamazaki Ansai Religious Aspects of Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Thought of Nakae Tōju and Kaibara Ekken Mary Evelyn Tucker 36. Unspeakable Things: Sai On s Ambivalent Critique of Language and Buddhism Gregory Smits 37. Ghosts and Spirits in Tokugawa Japan: The Confucian Views of Itō Jinsai

5 contents ix 38. The I Ching in the Shinto Thought of Tokugawa Japan Wai-ming Ng 39. Rethinking the Akō Ronin Debate: The Religious Signifijicance of Chūshin gishi Jiun Sonja ( ): A Response to Confucianism within the Context of Buddhist Reform Paul B. Watt 41. Quiet-Sitting and Political Activism: The Thought and Practice of Satō Naokata Mind and Morality in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Religions: Misogi-kyō and Maruyama-kyō Janine Anderson Sawada 43. Religious Conflict in Bakumatsu Japan: Zen Master Imakita Kōsen and Confucian Scholar Higashi Takusha Janine Anderson Sawada 44. The Idea of Heaven: A Tokugawa Foundation for Natural Rights Theory Sannosuke Matsumoto 45. On the Boundary between Religious and Secular : The Ideal and Practice of Neo-Confucian Self-cultivation in Modern Japanese Economic Life Gregory K. Ornatowski Volume Four TRANSLATIONS Introduction

6 x contents 46. Fujiwara Seika and the Great Learning Richard Bowring 47. A Translation-Study of the Kana Shōri (Neo-Confucian Terms for Japanese) Yamaga Sokō s Seikyō yōroku: An English Translation (Part One) Yamaga Sokō s Seikyō yōroku: An English Translation and Analysis (Part Two) Yamaga Sokō s Seikyō yōroku: An English Translation and Analysis (Part Three) Last Testament in Exile: Yamaga Sokō s Haisho Zampitsu Shuzo Uenaka 52. Buddhism as Viewed by Two Tokugawa Confucianists: Itō Jinsai s Letter to Dōkō and Its Refutation by Satō Naokata Joseph John Spae 53. Grappling with Chinese Writing as a Material Language: Ogyū Sorai s Yakubunsentei Emanuel Pastreich 54. Ogyū Sorai s Instructions for Students: A Translation and Commentary Richard H. Minear 55. Hakuseki on Spirits: An Analysis of Arai Hakuseki s Kishinron Kate Wildman Nakai Index Nominum

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