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Fiscal Year 2003: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This study has examined Kinoshita Naoe's thought of peace as a whole and throughout his life. When I illuminated the structure and transformation of his thought in my book Untamed Believer : Kinoshita Naoe, I felt it necessary to gather materials about his thought of peace particularly.
Chief materials about his peace thought were letters and manuscripts. I collected his letters besides already known ones up to 990. His manuscripts had not been open to the public since 1955 when Graduate School of Literature, Waseda University had bought them from Kinoshita Naoe's son spending the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for private universities. I was finally given the printout of their main part, 32 manuscripts. Also I found "Shin'yo Nippo" and "Shinano Nippo" published in Matsumoto in 1890s and used the reprinted edition of "Muro Shinpo" and so on. I compiled a lot of unknown writings of his and published The Complete Works of Kinoshita Naoe, Vol.19 at last. Then I wrote a report of this
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study editing the other materials that were not compiled into that volume.
Kinoshita Naoe's thought of peace has been revealed through many materials thus gathered. I treated of its characteristics in "Editor's Note" of The Complete Works of Kinoshita Naoe, Vol.19 and described them in "Untamed Belief of Kinoshita Naoe" and "Nonviolent Disobedience of an Absolute Pacifist." His peace thought in the Russo-Japanese war was the absolute pacifism similar to Lev Tolstoy's idea of nonresistance. This thought urged Kotoku Shusui and Sakai Toshihiko, the intrinsically non -absolute pacifists, to advocate the absolute pacifism. Also this thought let Kinoshita continue to criticize the war and patriotism differently from Uchimura Kanzo who inclined to prayer during war. After war, Kinoshita gave up socialism, but did not dismiss pacifism, and considered the thought of nonviolent disobedience. This thought, which tried to struggle with the hatred and revenge that caused the chain of violence, had been kept until the crisis in 1930s. Less
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