Ansai study

Japanese: 闇斎学 - あんさいがく

A school of thought advocated by the early modern Confucian scholar Yamazaki Ansai. It is also called Kimonology. Ansai followed Confucius's "state but do not create" approach as his own academic style, and rather than creating his own unique views, he carefully read Zhu Xi's commentaries on the Four Books, Zhu Xi's collected writings and words, and compiled and published excerpts of Zhu Xi-related documents by topic. His major work, Wen Hui Pil Lu, is an encyclopedia of Cheng-Zhuism from this perspective. While he made efforts to compile theories of Cheng-Zhuism, he also made efforts to compile theories of Shintoism as a Japanese teaching (Suika Shinto), and believed that the essence of Taoism could be clarified by coexisting theoretical Confucianism and mystical Shintoism.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

近世初期の儒学者山崎闇斎の提唱した学問。崎門（きもん）学ともいう。闇斎は孔子の〈述而不作〉の立場を自己の学風とし，自分の独自の見解を創出するよりは朱子の四書注解，朱子の文集や語類を精読し，主題ごとに朱子関係の文献の内容を摘録して編著を刊行した。《文会筆録》はそうした立場での程朱学百科全書ともいうべき彼の主著である。彼は程朱学の学説集成に努力するとともに，一方では日本の教学としての神道の学説集成に力を尽くし(垂加神道)，理論的な儒教と神秘的な神道とを並行両立させることによって道の本質は闡明（せんめい）しうると考えた。

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