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Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism
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15 July 1989

Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714) was the focal Neo-Confucian thinker of the early Tokagawa period. He established the importance of Neo-Confucianism in Japan at a time when Buddhism had long been the dominant religious philosophy. This is the first book-length presentation of his thought. It contains a lengthy introduction to Ekken's life, time, and thought, and a careful translation into readable English of Ekken's book, Precepts for Daily Life in Japan (Yamanto Zokkun).
Mary Evelyn Tucker is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bucknell University.
Acknowledgments
PART I: Kaibara Ekken
PART II: Yamato Zokkun
1. Introduction
2. Neo-Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period
3. Biography of Ekken
4. Introduction to Ekken's Thought
5. Analysis of Yamato Zokkun
6. A Comparative Treatment of Ekken's Ethical Treatises
7. Conclusion
8. Translation of Yamato Zokkun
9. Japanese Text of Yamato Zokkun
Appendices
A. Chronology of Kaibara Ekken's Life
B. A List of Ekken's Collected Works
Notes
Glossaries
Bibliography
Index