ItÅ Jinsai
Jinsai Itō (Japanese伊藤 仁 斎; * August 30 1627 in Kyoto, † April 5, 1705 ibid ) was a Japanese Confucian philosopher.
Life
Itō was born the son of a merchant family in Kyoto. Instead, as requested by his family medicine, he studied at the school of Confucianism Matsunaga Segiko. He belonged to the school of Kogaku ( school of ancient learning ), which sought to the original context and meaning of the Analects of Confucius and later interpretations and concepts refused, and established within that, the direction of the Kogigaku.
In 1666 he published his major work Gomo Jigi (语 孟 字 义); in the essay Dōjimon (童子 问, 1673 ) he studied with Buddhism and Taoism. From the 1680s Itō was established as a scholar and teacher. His son Itō Togai created an extensive collection of all 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 of the Chinese intellectual history ", transcript Verlag, 2009, ISBN 9783837610482, pp. 46-47
- Conrad D. Totman: "Early modern Japan " reissue University of California Press, 1995, ISBN 9780520203563, pp. 179-182