TY  - GEN
T1  - Master Sorai's responsals : an annotated translation of Sorai Sensei Tōmonsho
T2  - Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Food and population in a Northeast Thai village
A1  - Ogyū, Sorai, 1666-1728
A2  - Yamashita, Samuel Hideo, 1946-
LA  - English
LA  - Japanese
PP  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaii Press
YR  - 1994
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm45728480
AB  - Master Sorai's Responsals was to eighteenth-century Japan what The Prince was to Renaissance Italy. Like Machiavelli, Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728) was a humanist scholar who served a prince (one of the shogun's chief lieutenants) and drew on his experiences as a house philosopher and on his vast knowledge of history and political affairs in his work. In 1720, when he began to write the letters that comprise this text, the Tokugawa regime was more than a hundred years old and beset with grave administrative and fiscal problems, about which Sorai had much to say. Samuel Yamashita's impressive translation of this work offers modern readers a rare glimpse of the prevailing political discourse of the day and the specific concepts that rulers had at their disposal as they struggled to manage their domains, find talented men for their bureaucracies, create new sources of revenue, and keep their subjects well fed and happy. Sorai himself, of course, is a presence in the text. He is by tunes earnest, frank, impatient, utterly confident, and occasionally condescending. Unlike his Renaissance counterpart, he is something of an optimist: he was convinced that the introduction of archaic Chinese culture and institutions to Japan would solve its myriad problems. Well-versed in Chinese history, philosophy, religion, medicine, and belles lettres, Sorai holds forth on everything from archaic Chinese divination to Sung poetry and prose. He offers advice on how to become a Confucian gentleman, how to learn to read classical Chinese, and which books to read and which to avoid. He even discusses his belief in a sentient, Chinese-style "heaven," a topic not well understood by modern scholars. Long regarded as one of Sorai's best works, Master Sorai's Reponsals bristles with the sharp and clear opinions of the most influential thinker of Tokugawa Japan
OP  - 131
CN  - B5244.O353 T6613 1994eb
SN  - 0585276226
SN  - 9780585276229
SN  - 9780824863531
SN  - 0824863534
SN  - 082481570X
SN  - 9780824815707
KW  - Ogyū, Sorai. : Tōmonsho.
KW  - Philosophy, Confucian : Early works to 1800.
KW  - Philosophy : Early works to 1800.
KW  - Philosophie confucéenne : Ouvrages avant 1800.
KW  - Philosophie : Ouvrages avant 1800.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Eastern.
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy, Confucian
KW  - Neoconfucianisme.
KW  - Chinese filosofie.
KW  - Japan.
KW  - Early works
ER  -