| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The "Records of Editing Dainihonshi" are drafts of letters written by members in Shokokan and now in Kyoto University and the Ibaraki Prefectural Historical Archives. Many concrete articles of editing and publishing by the Mito clan are written in them but except for "Dainihonshi", they have never been examined.
Very important books edited by the Mito clan are the "Anthology of Zhu-ShunShui" 28 volumes published in 1715 and the "Memorandum of Zhu-ShunShui" 3 volumes published in 1708. Confucianist Zhu-ShunShui (1600〜1682) who was a vassal of Ming-dynasty China, was exiled to Japan. He was invited by Mitsukuni Tokugawa, the Load of the Mito clan, to edit ShunShui's work the "Anthology of Zhu-ShunShui". After Shunshui's death Mitsukuni ordered his vassals of Shokokan to collect Shunshui's prose and poetry. He also asked Seian Ando, a pupil of Zhu-ShunShui and helped his life in Nagasaki, to write a preface to the "Anthology of Zhu-ShunShui. It was in 1696.
Judging from this research the following facts were glanced. From the beginning, Tanpaku Asaka, also a pupil of Zhu-ShunShui, played a very significant role. He had close connections with the Ando family, who were Confucianists of the Yanagawa clan, also to collect Seian's prose and poetry. After Seian's death, the Yanagawa clan and the Mito clan continued to cooperate with each other. A publisher in Kyoto Tazaemon Ibaraki and his whole family Hikokuro Ogawa in Edo who contracted to publish books edited in Shokokan, were always conscientious workers for the Mito clan.
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