Kumazawa Banzan: Governing the Realm and Bringing Peace to All below Heaven
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- Real Author: Kumazawa Banzan
- Editor and Translator: John A. Tucker, East Carolina University
- Date Published: January 2021
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108425018
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Kumazawa Banzan's (1619-1691) Responding to the Great Learning (Daigaku wakumon) stands as the first major writing on political economy in early modern Japanese history. John A. Tucker's translation is the first English rendition of this controversial text to be published in eighty years. The introduction offers an accessible and incisive commentary, including detailed analyses of Banzan's text within the context of his life, as well as broader historical and intellectual developments in East Asian Confucian thought. Emphasizing parallels between Banzan's life events, such as his relief efforts in the Okayama domain following devastating flooding, and his later writings advocating compassionate government, environmental initiatives, and projects for growing wealth, Tucker sheds light on Banzan's main objective of 'governing the realm and bringing peace and prosperity to all below heaven'. In Responding to the Great Learning, Banzan was doing more than writing a philosophical commentary, he was advising the Tokugawa shogunate to undertake a major reorganization of the polity - or face the consequences.
Read more- A full translation of the first political economy text in early modern Japanese history
- Offers students of Japanese history and thought an introduction to a pivotal thinker and text, contextualized within larger historical and intellectual developments in East Asian history
- Allows students without training in Japanese language to access a complete text pertaining to early modern Japanese political thought
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- Date Published: January 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108425018
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 222 x 142 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I:
1. The heaven-decreed duty of the people's ruler
2. The heaven-decreed duty of the people's ministers
3. Revering good counsel
4. A grand project for growing wealth
5. Eliminating anxieties over flooding and relieving droughts
6. Preparing for northern barbarians, emergencies, and bad harvests
7. Filling Shogunal coffers with gold, silver, rice, and grain
8. Eliminating debt from the realm below heaven
9. Helping Rōnin, vagrants, the unemployed, and the impoverished
10. Making mountains luxuriant and rivers run deep
Part II:
11. The ebb and flow of the ruler's blessings
12. Returning to the old farmer-Samurai society
13. Eliminating landless income and increasing new fiefs
14. Lowering the cost of foreign silk and textiles
15. Eliminating Christianity
16. Reviving Buddhism
17. Reviving Shintō
18. Worthy rulers reviving Japan
19. Governing with education
20. Those who should teach in our schools
21..A little kindness provides benefits
22. Wasted rice and grain
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