Itō Jinsai
Itō Jinsai ( Japanese 伊藤 仁 斎 ; born August 30, 1627 in Kyōto ; † April 5, 1705 ibid) was a Japanese Confucian philosopher.
Life
Itō was born into a merchant family in Kyoto. Instead of medicine, as his family wanted, he studied Confucianism at the school of Matsunaga Segiko . He belonged to the school of Kogaku (school of old erudition), which sought the original context and meaning of Confucius' conversations and rejected later interpretations and terminology, and founded the Kogigaku trend within them .
In 1666 his main work Gomō jigi ( 語 孟 字 義 ) appeared; in the essay Dōjimon ( 童子 問 , 1673) he dealt with Buddhism and Taoism. From the 1680s, Itō was established as a scholar and teacher. His son Itō Tōgai created an extensive collection of all of his father's writings and an extensive biography.
swell
- Encyclopedia Britannica - Itō Jinsai
- Chun-chieh Huang: "A Type of Confucian Hermeneutics in East Asia" in: Qingsong Shen, Kwong-loi Shun: "Confucian ethics in retrospect and prospect" , CRVP, 2007, ISBN 9781565182455 , pp. 274 ff
- Chun-chieh Huang: "Confucianism: Continuity and Development: Studies on Chinese Intellectual History" , transcript Verlag, 2009, ISBN 9783837610482 , pp. 46–47
- Conrad D. Totman: "Early modern Japan" , reissued University of California Press, 1995, ISBN 9780520203563 , pp. 179-182
Individual evidence
- ↑ 伊藤 仁 斎 二 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed November 30, 2011 (Japanese).
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SURNAME | Itō, Jinsai |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 伊藤 仁 斎 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese Confucian philosopher |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1627 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kyoto |
DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1705 |
Place of death | Kyoto |