The Tokugawa Confucianism and the Modern Evidential Scholarship

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370093
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Kokushikan University
• Principal Investigator: Takemura Eiji 国士舘大学, 21世紀アジア学部, 教授 (80319889)
• Research Collaborator: Kornicki Peter Francis 英ケンブリッジ大学 ; Elman Benjamin A. 米プリンストン大学 ; Tortarolo Edoardo 伊トリノ大学東ピエモンテ校 ; Domanska Ewa ポーランド、ポツナン大学 ; Guthenke Constanze 英オックスフォード大学 ; Grafton Anthony 米プリンストン大学 ; Pollock Sheldon 米コロンビア大学 ; Collcutt Martin C. プリンストン大学 ; Tankha Brij Mohan デリー大学, 名誉教授 ; Sato Masayuki 山梨大学, 名誉教授 ; Okawa Makoto 中央大学 ; Ozaki Jyunichiro 東北大学〈院〉
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 日本思想史 / 比較思想史 / 儒学 / 考証学 / フィロロギー / 日本 / 清代 / 中国

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research cluster has investigated the methodological peculiarities of the ‘evidential Confucians’ in Japan, and examined it in conjunction with their counterparts in China and the philologie of Germany in a similar period. The most notable methodological developments include the qualities of classical philology and historical chronology in the second-half of the Tokugawa period; such disciplines as grammar and usage, phonetics, prosody and lexicography also developed in the era. The Japanese evidential scholarship owed considerably to the increasingly influential Qing China scholarship, but the exports of Japanese scholarly achievements to China was also an important factor for the mutually beneficial scholarly development on both sides of East China Sea.
The mid-to-late Tokugawa scholarship was highly responsible for the development of the Bakumatsu ‘evidential’ scholarship that further helped develop 'modern' academic disciplines such as history in Meiji Japan.

Free Research Field

日本思想史