The Adoption of the Qing scholarship amongst Tokugawa Confucian Thought: seeking for the new framework of the intellectual trajectory after the Sorai School

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520797
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese history
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: MAKABE JIN 北海道大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 教授 (30311898)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 徳川儒学思想 / 清朝考証学 / 舶来漢籍

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research analyzed Tokugawa Confucian thought from the view point of the adoption of Qing scholarship. The practice of analyzing Tokugawa Confucianism history from within the framework of Inoue Tetsujiro’s history of Chinese philosophy has been improved. By re-examining the Inoue’s classification of philosophy, this study tried to show the new framework of intellectual trajectory after the Sorai School. In accordance with the deepening understanding of Qing scholarship, the acceptance of the methods of evidential research in textual criticism naturally resulted in the use of such techniques in critical readings of the books and historical documents themselves. This study focused on the evidential research and “eclectic” movements in Japan examined those who visited at the Ashikaga School, Japanese oldest academic institution, in the eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries.

Free Research Field

日本政治思想史