Master Sorai's responsals
an annotated translation of Sorai Sensei Tōmonsho
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Author
Contributions
- Yamashita, Samuel Hideo, 1946- - Contributor
Publication
1994 - University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii
Language
English
Word Count
32,750 words, Guess
Page Count
131 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1091159M
- ISBN-10082481570X
- OCLC Control Number30156584
- OCLC Control Number28375480
- Internet Archivefoodpopulationin0000fuku
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- Library of Congress Control Number94015416
- LibraryThing4971398
- Goodreads1148328
Classifications
- DDC181/.12
- LCCB5244.O353 T6613 1994
Description
Master Sorai's Responsals was to eighteenth-century Japan what The Prince was to Renaissance Italy. Like Machiavelli, Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728) was a humanist scholar who served a prince (one of the shogun's chief lieutenants) and drew on his experiences as a house philosopher and on his vast knowledge of history and political affairs in his work. In 1720, when he began to write the letters that comprise this text, the Tokugawa regime was more than a hundred years old and beset with grave administrative and fiscal problems, about which Sorai had much to say. Samuel Yamashita's impressive translation of this work offers modern readers a rare glimpse of the prevailing political discourse of the day and the specific concepts that rulers had at their disposal as they struggled to manage their domains, find talented men for their bureaucracies, create new sources of revenue, and keep their subjects well fed and happy.
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