Shugiwasho - Shugiwasho

16 volumes. Written by Kumazawa Banzan, a Confucian scholar of the early Edo period. The first edition was published in 1672 (Kanbun 12), and a second edition with extensive revisions was published a few years later. This book, a dialogue-style work of over 350 articles (2nd edition), is one of Banzan's masterpieces along with the later Shugi Gaisho. While Gaisho is mainly about "matters of governing the world," Washo discusses "techniques for the daily use of scholars." This book gives us an insight into Banzan's scholarship and thought, including his Confucian eclectic position based on the Zhu-Wang school of thought, his unique theory of "human feelings that change with the times" based on his sharp insight into nature, history, and humanity, and his political and social thought that contains criticism of the current situation. The extent of his influence can be seen from the fact that an abridged copy of the work, "Shugiwa Shoryaku," exists at Suyama Totsuan in Tsushima.

[Tadashi Sakuma]

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16巻。江戸前期の儒者熊沢蕃山(くまざわばんざん)の著書。1672年（寛文12）初版刊行、その数年後大幅な改訂の加えられた2版が刊行された。350条余り（2版）の問答体の著述である本書は、のちに著された『集義外書(しゅうぎがいしょ)』とともに蕃山の代表作である。『外書』が主として「経世治教の事」に関したものであるのに対し、『和書』は「おほく学者日用の工夫」を論じたものであり、朱王折衷的な儒学的立場、自然・歴史・人間への鋭い洞察に基づく特有の「人情時変」論、現状への批判を秘めた政治社会思想など、蕃山の学問・思想の大概は本書によって知ることができる。対馬(つしま)の陶山訥庵(すやまとつあん)にその抄本『集義和書略』があることからも、その影響力がうかがわれる。

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