Confucianism: The Life and Thought o f Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714). Albany:
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This book consists o f two main parts: an analysis o f certain aspects o f Kaibara Ekken’s life and thought, and a translation of the first half of Kxma/o zokkun,or Precepts fo r Daily Life in Ja pa n,accompanied by a photocopy of the Japanese text. This, the first book-length study of Ekken in English, is a significant con tribution to the literature on Japanese thought and religion. Chapter three serves as a good, concise biography, and the bibliography of works in Japanese and English is extensive. The translation is generally accurate and readable. In part one, the author develops two main points about Ekken, the first being that he was important in adapting Neo-Confucianism to “the Japanese context” ; he did this mainly by writing ethico-religious treatises in Japanese (what the author somewhat misleadingly calls “a simplified Japanese”)to pro mote wide-scale education in basic Confucian concepts. Second, Tucker argues that Ekken’s life and thought represent an integration of two poles in Chu Hsi’s teachings, namely the investigation of things (manifested in Ekken’s in terest in empirical research) and self-cultivation (manifested in Ekken’s reli
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