Sources of Japanese Tradition

A sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from eighteenth century to post-World War II period. It presents writings from modern Japan's philosophers, religious figures, writers, and political leaders. It also offers introductory essays and commentary to assist in understanding documents' historical setting and significance.

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Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, and Ryusaku Tsunoda

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Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period. Now greatly expanded to include the entire twentieth century, and beginning in 1600, Sources of Japanese Tradition presents writings from modern Japan's most important philosophers, religious figures, writers, and political leaders. The volume also offers extensive introductory essays and commentary to assist in understanding the documents' historical setting and significance. Wonderfully varied in its selections, this eagerly anticipated expanded edition has revised many of the texts from the original edition and added a great many not included or translated before. New additions include documents on the postwar era, the importance of education in the process of modernization, and women's issues.

Beginning with documents from the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate, the collection's essays, manifestos, religious tracts, political documents, and memoirs reflect major Japanese religious, philosophical, social, and political movements. Subjects covered include the spread of neo-Confucian and Buddhist teachings, Japanese poetry and aesthetics, and the Meiji Restoration. Other documents reflect the major political trends and events of the period: the abolition of feudalism, agrarian reform, the emergence of political parties and liberalism, and the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars. The collection also includes Western and Japanese impressions of each other via Western religious missions and commercial and cultural exchanges. These selections underscore Japanese and Western apprehension of and fascination with each other.

As Japan entered the twentieth century, new political and social movements-Marxism, anarchism, socialism, feminism, and nationalism-entered the national consciousness. Later readings in the collection look at the buildup to war with the United States, military defeat, and American occupation. Documents from the postwar period echo Japan's struggle with its own history and its development as a capitalist democracy.

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Preface
Part IV The Tokugawa Peace
20. Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate, by Willem Boot
Ieyasuís Revenge and Compassion
21. Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period, by Willem Boot
Fujiwara Seika and the Rise of Neo-Confucianism
Hayashi Razan
The Later History of the Hayashi Family School
The Way of Heaven
22. The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan
Yamazaki Ansai and Zhu Xi Studies, by Barry Steben
The Mito School, by Barry Steben
Kaibara Ekken: Human Nature and the Study of Nature, by Mary Evelyn Tucker
The Oyomei (Wang Yangming) School in Japan, by Barry Steben
Kumazawa Banzan: Confucian Practice in Seventeenth-Century Japan, by Ian James McMullen
Nakae Tojuís Successors in the Oyomei School, by Barry Steben
23. The Evangelic Furnace: Japanís First Encounter with the West, by J. S. A. Elisonas
European Documents
A Christian Critique of Shinto
Alexandro Valignanoís Japanese Mission Policy
A Jesuit Priestís Observations of Women
Japanese Documents
The Anti-Christian Edicts of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Fabian Fucan Pro and Contra
A Buddhist Refutation of Christianity
24. Confucian Revisionists, by Wm. Theodore de Bary and John A. Tucker
Fundamentalism and Revisionism in the Critique of Neo-Confucianism
Yamaga Soko and the Civilizing of the Samurai, by John A. Tucker
Ito Jinsaiís School of Ancient Meanings, by John A. Tucker
Ogyu Sorai and the Return to the Classics
Muro Kyusoís Defense of Neo-Confucianism
25. Varieties of Neo-Confucian Education
Principles of Education
Yamazaki Ansai, by John A. Tucker
Kaibara Ekken, by Mary Evelyn Tucker
The Shizutani School, by Mary Evelyn Tucker
The Merchant Academy of Kaitokudo, by Tetsuo Najita
Lecture on the Early Chapters of the Analects and Mencius
Items of Understanding, 1727
Items of Understanding, 1758
Ogyu Soraiís Approach to Learning, by Richard Minear
Hirose Tansoís School System, by Marleen Kassel
26. Popular Instruction
Ishida Baiganís Learning of the Mind and the Way of the Merchant, by Janine Sawada
The House Codes of Tokugawa Merchant Families
The Testament of Shimai Soshitsu
The Code of the Okaya House
Ihara Saikaku
Mitsui Takafusa
Muro Kyuso
Hosoi Heishu
How to Behave at Temple Schools
27. The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics III, by Donald Keene
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
28. Haiku and the Democracy of Poetry as a Popular Art, by Donald Keene
Matsuo Basho
Issa
29. "Dutch Learning," by Grant Goodman
Engelbert Kaempfer
Sugita Genpaku
Otsuki Gentaku
Shiba Kokan
30. Eighteenth-Century Rationalism
Arai Hakuseki's Confucian Perspective on Government and Society, by Kate Nakai
The Function of Rites
The Evolution of Japanese History
Hakuseki's View of Christianity and the West
Hakuseki's Approach to Fiscal Policy and Trade
Tominaga Nakamotoís Historical Relativism
Ando Shoeki's Ecological Community
Miura Baien's Search for a New Logic, by Rosemary Mercer
"The Origin of Price"
Baien's System of "Logic"
Space and Time
Heaven-and-Earth Is the Teacher
Jori and Science
Kaiho Seiryo and the Laws of Economics
31. The Way of the Warrior II
The Debate over the Ako Vendetta, by John A. Tucker and Barry Steben
Okado Denpachiro
Religious Nuances of the Ako Case, by John A. Tucker and Barry Steben
Hayashi Razan
Hayashi Hoko
Muro Kyuso
Ogyu Sorai
Sato Naokata
Asami Keisai
Dazai Shundai
Goi Ranshu
Fukuzawa Yukichi
The Ako Vendetta Dramatized, by Donald Keene
Hagakure and the Way of the Samurai, by Barry Steben
32. The National Learning Schools, by Peter Nosco
Kada no Azumamaro
Kamo no Mabuchi
Motoori Norinaga
Love and Poetry
Good and Evil in The Tale of Genji
Hirata Atsutane
Okuni Takamasa
33. Buddhism in the Tokugawa Period
Suzuki Shosan, by Royall Tyler
Takuan Soho, by William Bodiford
Bankei
Hakuin Ekaku
Jiun Sonja Paul Watt
34. Orthodoxy, Protest, and Local Reform
The Prohibition of Heterodox Studies
The Kansei Edict
The Justification for the Kansei Edict
The Later Wang Yangming (Oyomei) School, by Barry Steben
Sato Issai
Oshio Heihachiro
Agrarian Reform and Cooperative Planning
Ninomiya Sontoku
35. Forerunners of the Restoration
Rai Sanyo and Yamagata Daini: Loyalism
Rai Sanyo's Unofficial History, by Barry Steben
Yamagata Daini's New Thesis, by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Honda Toshiaki: Ambitions for Japan
Sato Nobuhiro: Totalitarian Nationalism
36. The Debate over Seclusion and Restoration
The Later Mito School
The Opening of Japan from Within
Sakuma Shozan: Eastern Ethics and Western Science
Yokoi Shonan: Opening the Country for the Common Good
Yoshida Shoin: Death-Defying Heroism
Fukuzawa Yukichi: Pioneer of Westernization
Reform Proposals of Sakamoto Ryoma, Saigo Takamori, and Okubo Toshimichi
Sakamoto Ryoma: Eight-Point Proposal
Letter from Saigo Takamori and Okubo Toshimichi on the Imperial Restoration
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