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(★)(1.Contact with foreign thought and traditions, particularly the traditions of China, has greatly affected Japanese culture. Among the more influential religious and intellectual system to have entered Japan are Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity. Although scholars have argued that without these imported elements the Japanese cultural tradition would be insignificant, native values have survived from earliest times and have provided the foundation for the acceptance and assimilation of outside influences. These indigenous traditions in Japan have rarely been expressed explicitly as a system of thought ; but the search for a Japanese cultural identity or national self-image has been earnestly pursued. One such movement in this search was known as ´kokugaku [national studies]´. Important during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, kokugaku was the first major movement in Japan through which the intrinsic values in ancient Japanese life were rediscovered from studies of ancient Japanese texts. Motoori Norinaga [1730-1801] was its greatest leader. This volume represents the first intensive and detailed study in English of Norinaga´s life and thought, exploring fundamental questions about the interpretation of Japanese culture. In this work Mr. Matsumoto views Norinaga´s thought as having evolved out of a long developmental process rather than as being an established, abstract system of ideas. He divides Norinaga´s life history into four stages -childhood and adolescence [1730-1751], young adulthood [1752-1763], adulthood [1764-1780], and old age [1781-1801]- placing each stage in its proper social, historical, cultural, and spiritual context. The author argues that the progression of Norinaga´s ideas was closely related to his personal search for meaning and identity and at the same time represented the sociocultural reality of Japan. 2.Shigeru Matsumoto, after having earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tokyo, received his doctorate in the study of religion from Harvard in 1967. He is currently Research Associate in the Institute for Studies of Cultural Interchange at the University of Tokyo and teaches at both Tenri University and Waseda University.) |
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