1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Chinese Elements in the Japanese Ethical History : Generation, Situation and Metamorphoses of Chinese Thoughts, Kangaku, and Kanbungaku

Research Project

Project/Area Number	09610036
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	倫理学
Research Institution	THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
Principal Investigator	KUROZUMI Makoto The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 教授 (00153411)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	ITO Takayuki Musashi University, Department of Literature, Associate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (20251499)
Project Period (FY)	1997 – 1999
Keywords	Kangaku / Confucianism / intellectual history / Japanese culture / Kokugaku / suncretism / China / religion
Research Abstract	We published several papers about the Japanese Kangaku history from ancient period to the 20ィイD1thィエD1 century. At first the Kangaku had superior power, but it become peripherized by the Kokubunbaku factors. The two have made the modes of syncretic combination in Japane se language-cultural sphere. In early modern Japan, the Kangaku stimulated the Kokugaku, which showed important attempts of looking for the stability of religious world of Japan. But this was not been done successfully. In modern Japan, Chinese elements become a crucial factor of Japanocentric Asiatic ideology. By the corporation of young scholars, we made clear many points about the intellect ual history of Chinese and Japanese thought.