Japanese Thought in the Tokugawa Era

A Bibliography of Western-Language Materials. Compiled and edited by Klaus Kracht.

The bibliography pragmatically tries to achieve completeness to some extent in the fields of academic, religious, social, political etc. discourse, excluding works of Western authors written before the mid-19th Century, excluding, with few exceptions, works of Western authors written before the mid-19th Century. Sources and studies on the fine arts and on "Bushido" and the martial arts were only included in exceptional cases. The Compiler has refrained from evaluating comments. Instead, chapter-headings were included where they are helpful to inform the reader. Contents: 1. General, 2. Buddhism, 3. Christianity, 4. Confucianism, 5. Chu Hsi Confucianism, 6. Wang Yang-ming Confucianism, 7. Neo-Classical Confucianism, 8. Bushido, 9. Learning of the Mind, 10. National Learning, 11. Western Learning, 12. Various Thinkers of the 18th Century, 13. Mito School, 14. Late Tokugawa Thought, 15. Miscellaneous. 426 Seiten, broschiert (Izumi. Quellen, Studien und Materialien zur Kultur Japans; Band 6/Harrassowitz Verlag 2000)