Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism
Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism

Author: Mary Evelyn Tucker

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780887068898

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Kaibara Ekken (1630--1714) was the focal Neo-Confucian thinker of the early Tokagawa period. He established the importance of Neo-Confucianism in Japan at a time when Buddhism had long been the dominant religious philosophy. This is the first book-length presentation of his thought. It contains a lengthy introduction to Ekken's life, time, and thought, and a careful translation into readable English of Ekken's book, Precepts for Daily Life in Japan (Yamanto Zokkun).

Tokugawa Political Writings
Tokugawa Political Writings

Author: Tetsuo Najita

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-08-27

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780521567176

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An English edition of works by the great Japanese political thinker Ogyu Sorai.

The Social Dimension of Shin Buddhism
The Social Dimension of Shin Buddhism

Author: Ugo Dessì

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-08-23

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9004193790

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Shin Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū), although weakened in many ways by secularization, continues to be a stable presence in Japanese society, as is emblematically shown by the very symmetrical position of the Nishi (Honganji-ha) and the Higashi Honganji (Ōtani-ha) head temples in the center of Kyōto, and by the recent projects for their renovation. This book addresses the need for more academic research on Shin Buddhism, and is specifically directed at describing and analyzing distinctive social aspects of this religious tradition in historical and contemporary perspective. The contributions collected here cover a wide range of issues, including the intersection between Shin Buddhism and fields as diverse as politics, education, social movements, economy, culture and the media, social ethics, gender, and globalization.

A History of Law in Japan Until 1868
A History of Law in Japan Until 1868

Author: Carl Steenstrup

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9789004104532

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Japan's modern written law is Western. However, this law operates in a society whose values are pre-Western. In order to understand the function of modern law one has to study older systems of law as well. The main phases of Japan's pre-modern legal development are first, the indigenous customary law of the Yamato state. Next, the import and adaptation of Chinese codes from the 7th century onwards. Third, the use of Chinese legal techniques to bring order to the indigenous feudal law, culminating in the thirteenth century, and leading to the independence of Japan's legal system from that of China. Fourth, the mature system of written law and custom of the Tokugawa state. It is owing to the existence of well-functioning channels of law that Japan was able to modernise rapidly.

Japan, Turkey and the World of Islam
Japan, Turkey and the World of Islam

Author: Selçuk Esenbel

Publisher: Global Oriental

Published: 2011-02-04

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9004212779

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Widely known for her writings on Islam with a particular focus on the transnational history of politics in Islam and Japan, this volume brings together twenty of the author’s key essays thematically structured as 'Japan and Islam', 'Japanese Ottoman Relations and Japanese-Turkish Interaction', and 'Reflections on Tokugawa Japan from Turkey'. Awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize for Japanese Studies in 2007, Selçuk Esenbel’s volume will provide an invaluable reference resource for current and future research in an increasingly important context.

A History of Japan, 1582-1941
A History of Japan, 1582-1941

Author: L. M. Cullen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-05-15

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780521529181

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This 2003 book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan.

The Tokugawa World
The Tokugawa World

Author: Gary P. Leupp

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 1199

ISBN-13: 1000427331

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With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope. In its early modern period, under the Tokugawa shoguns, Japan was a world apart. For over two centuries the shogun’s subjects were forbidden to travel abroad and few outsiders were admitted. Yet in this period, Japan evolved as a nascent capitalist society that could rapidly adjust to its incorporation into the world system after its forced "opening" in the 1850s. The Tokugawa World demonstrates how Japan’s early modern society took shape and evolved: a world of low and high cultures, comic books and Confucian academies, soba restaurants and imperial music recitals, rigid enforcement of social hierarchy yet also ongoing resistance to class oppression. A world of outcasts, puppeteers, herbal doctors, samurai officials, businesswomen, scientists, scholars, blind lutenists, peasant rebels, tea-masters, sumo wrestlers, and wage workers. Covering a variety of features of the Tokugawa world including the physical landscape, economy, art and literature, religion and thought, and education and science, this volume is essential reading for all students and scholars of early modern Japan.