| Research Abstract |
The purposes of this research project are in the following.
1. To investigate and study the influences of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism on Emerson.
2. To investigate and study how such thinkers and literary men in the Meiji and Taisho era in Japan as Masanao Nakamura, Iwano Homei, Yamaji Aizan, and Takayasu Gekko found the similarities between Emerson's thought and Neo-Confucian doctrines, especially of Wang Yang-ming, Lu Hsiang-shan, and Chu Hsi.
3. To investigate and study the formation and development of Neo-Confucianism in China.
4. To examine Emerson's thought and the doctrines of Lu Hsiang-shan and Wang Yang-ming and to make clear the similarities and differences between them.
5. To examine Emerson's thought and the doctrines of Chu Hsi and to make clear the similarities and differences between them.
The results of this research project are in the following.
1. Concerning the purpose 1, see chapter 1, paragraph 1 of the researcher's report on the research results.
2. Concerning the p
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urpose 2, 3, and 4, see chapter 1, paragraphs 2 and 3.
3. Concerning purpose 5, see chapter 2, 3, and 4.
As mentioned above, the purposes of this research project set up in the beginning can be said to be almost accomplished.
The investigator conducted researches and investigations at Harvard University during the summer in 2005, and had a valuable experience in his research work accepted as a research associate by Harvard Yenching Institute during the summers in 2006 and 2007. He also could have a chance of exchanging ideas with Pro」 Lawrence Buell, authority on Emerson studies and professor of American literature at the English department, Harvard University. As to Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, he exchanged ideas with Prof. Kohei Yoshida, professor at Toyo University, and Prof. Kiwamu Goyama, honorary professor at Kyfishfi University, and asked for their advice and teachings. He went up to Tokyo almost once a month, collected research materials at such libraries as the library affiliated to the University of Tokyo, attended study meetings on comparative philosophy and culture, and exchanged ideas with the researchers majoring in English, American, German, and French literature and thought and the science of religion. Less
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