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Critical Readings in the Intellectual History of Early Modern Japan (2 vol. set)
Edited by W.J.
Boot
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• August 2012
• ISBN 978 90 04 22231 1
• Hardback (Vol. 1: viii, 518 pp.,
Vol. 2: viii, 452 pp.)
• List price EUR 390.- / US$ 534.• Critical Readings
Critical Readings in the Intellectual History of Early
Modern Japan provides an overview of recent
research into the most fascinating period in
the development of Japanese thought. Against a
background of Buddhism, which all through the
period remained the state-sponsored religion,
Chinese studies spread and became the basis
of all higher education. Chinese studies, and
the Confucianism they implied, provoked a
reaction, “National Studies”, which took the
philological method elaborated by the Chinese
scholars and applied it to the ancient Japanese
corpus, in an attempt to articulate a “Japanese”
identity. Simultaneously, the growing interest of
physicians and astronomers in European science
gave rise to “Dutch Studies.” These four fields
of intellectual endeavor together comprise the
subject of the book.
Readership: All students and scholars interested
in the intellectual history of Early Modern Japan,
either from the perspective of Japanese history or
from a comparative perspective.
W.J. Boot, Ph.D. (1983), Leiden University, is
professor of Japanese Studies at that University.
He has published widely on the Intellectual
History of Early Modern Japan.
Critical Readings in the Intellectual History of Early Modern Japan
Where to Order
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INTRODUCTION
The Intellectual History of the Tokugawa Period:
An Introductory Essay, W.J. Boot
SECTION 1: CONFUCIANISM
1. Kurozumi, Makoto (Herman Ooms,
trans.), “The Nature of Early Tokugawa
Confucianism”, Journal of Japanese Studies,
Vol. 20, No. 2 (1994), pp. 337-375.
2. Nakai, Kate Wildman, “The Naturalization
of Confucianism in Tokugawa Japan: The
Problem of Sinocentrism”, Harvard Journal of
Asiatic Studies, Vol. 40, No. 1 (1980), pp.157-199.
3. McMullen, I.J., “Rules or Fathers? A
Casuistical Problem in Early Modern
Japanese Thought”, Past and Present, Vol. 116,
No. 1 (1987), pp. 56-97.
4. Boot, W.J., “Education, Schooling, and
Religion in Early Modern Japan”, in Boot, W.J.
& Shirahata Yōzaburō, eds, Two Faces of the
Early Modern World: The Netherlands and Japan
in the 17th and 18th Centuries, International
Symposium in Europe 1999 (International
Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2001),
pp. 15-34.
5. Backus, Robert L., “The Kansei Prohibition
of Heterodoxy and Its Effects on Education”,
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1
(1979), pp. 55-106.
6. Kassel, Marleen, “Moral education in EarlyModern Japan. The Kangien Confucian
Academy of Hirose Tansō”, Japanese Journal of
Religious Studies, Vol. 20, No. 4 (1993), pp. 297-310.
Volume 2
SECTION 2: KOKUGAKU
16. Murphy, Regan E., “Esoteric Buddhist
Theories of Language in Early Kokugaku:
The Sōshaku of the Man’yō daishōki”,
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 6, No.
1 (2009), pp. 65-91.
17. Harper, Thomas J., “The Tale of Genji in the
Eighteenth Century: Keichū, Mabuchi and
Norinaga”, in C. Andrew Gerstle, ed., 18th
Century Japan: Culture and Society (Allen &
Unwin, 1989), Chapter 7, pp. 106-123.
18. Nosco, Peter, “Nature, Invention, and
National Learning: The Kokka hachiron
Controversy, 1742-46”, Harvard Journal of
Asiatic Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1 (1981), pp. 75-91.
19. Flueckiger, Peter, “Reflections on the
Meaning of Our Country: Kamo no
Mabuchi’s Kokuikō”, Monumenta Nipponica,
Vol. 63, No. 2 (2008), pp. 211-238.
20. Bolitho, Harold, “Metempsychosis Hijacked:
The Curious Case of Katsugorō”, Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2002),
pp. 389-414.
SECTION 3: RANGAKU
21. Bartholomew, James R., “Why was there no
scientific revolution in Tokugawa Japan”,
Japanese Studies in the History or Science, Issue
15 (1976), pp. 111-125
22. Hesselink, Reinier H., “A Dutch New Year
at the Shirandō Academy. 1 January 1795”,
Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 50, No. 2 (1995), pp.
189-234.
23. Boot, W.J., “Shizuki Tadao’s Sakoku-ron”,
Journal of the Japan-Netherlands Institute IX,
2008, pp. 88-106.
24. Yoshida, Tadashi, “From ‘Mind Travel’ to
‘The Plurality of Worlds’”, Journal of the JapanNetherlands Institute IX, 2008, pp.67-87.
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SECTION 4: RELIGIONS
25. Paramore, Kiri, “Early Japanese Christian
Thought Reexamined: Confucian Ethics,
Catholic Authority, and the Issue of Faith in
the Scholastic Theories of Habian, Gomez
and Ricci”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies,
Vol. 35, No. 2 (2008), pp. 231-262.
26. Scheid, Bernhard, “Shintō as a Religion for
the Warrior Class. The Case of Yoshikawa
Koretaru”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies,
Vol. 29, No. 3-4 (2002), pp. 299-324.
27. Sawada, Janine Anderson, “Religious conflict
in Bakumatsu Japan: Zen master Imakita
Kōsen and Confucian scholar Higashi
Takusha”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies,
Vol. 21, No. 2-3 (1994), pp. 211-230.
SECTION 5: MEETING THE WEST
28. Breen, John, “Accomodating the Alien: Ōkuni
Takamasa and the Religion of the Lord of
Heaven”, in P.F. Kornicki, I.J. McMullen, eds.,
Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 179-197.
29. Ōkubo, Toshiaki, “Western Learning
(Yōgaku) in the Late Tokugawa Period.
Particularly the Development of Humanistic
and Social Studies”, Acta Asiatica, Issue 42
(1982), pp. 56-74.
30. Howland, Douglas, “Translating Liberty in
Nineteenth-Century Japan”, Journal of the
History of Ideas, Vol. 62, No. 1 (2001), pp. 161-181.
31. Minear, Richard H., “Nishi Amane and
the Reception of Western Law in Japan”,
Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1973), pp.
151-175.
32. Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, “Katō Hiroyuki
and Confucian Natural Rights, 1861-1870”,
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 44, No. 2
(1984), pp. 469-492.
Index
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