Creating the "image of Toju Nakae" in early modern society

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K12970
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 01040:History of thought-related
• Research Institution: Tama University
• Principal Investigator: Takahashi Yasuhiro 多摩大学, 経営情報学部, 准教授 (70708031)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 中江藤樹 / 藤樹学派 / 江戸儒学 / 教育思想史 / 日本思想史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project, we analyzed how the "teachings of Nakae Toju" were shared in the same period by surveying the Toju school and various collections of letters and other works circulating in the public domain during the Edo period. As a result, most of the manuscripts in the collection of letters were from the same family of manuscripts or published books. There were no specific collections of individual letters, but rather collections of letters shared within the Toju school and published books that had been published and disseminated to the public, suggesting the homogeneity of learning within the school.

Free Research Field

日本思想史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

現代の我々は、『全集』など校訂を経たまとまったテキスト群から読み取れるものを読み解こうと試みる。そのようなアプローチからでは、パッケージ的に「思想」を理解してしまう危険性がある。本研究課題が明らかにしたように、どのような媒体で江戸期を通じて継承されたのか、というところを改めて解きほぐして各テキストの特徴を捉え直そうとしたところに、儒学思想研究における学術的意義と社会的意義がある。