Summary of the Holy Teachings - Seikyouyoroku

A book written by Yamaga Soko, a Confucian scholar and military scholar in the early Edo period. Three volumes. Completed in 1665 (Kanbun 5) and published the following year. Prior to this work, Soko's disciples had compiled the Yamaga Gorui, and this book is an excerpt and summary of the "Sacred Learning Chapter" from volumes 33 to 43 of that work. Upon its publication, the shogunate deemed this book an "indecent book," and Soko was exiled to Ako in Harima. In this book, he criticizes Neo-Confucianism, which he himself once believed in, systematically develops the Sugyo school after the turn from ancient learning, which states that "one takes the Duke of Zhou and Confucius as one's teacher, and does not take the Confucian scholars of the Han, Tang, Song, or Ming dynasties as one's teacher," and provides concise and concise explanations of 28 important terms, such as "saint," "way," "reason," "virtue," "sincerity," "heaven and earth," "nature," "heart," and "origin of the path." This book almost completely captures the essence of "sacred learning" (Sugyo school), which he himself described as a teaching that follows the principles of heaven and earth, does not go against the feelings of people, does not abandon business or rituals, and does not toy with the nature and heart of people, but gives concrete teachings, and in that sense, this book should be called the "fundamentals of Sugyo school."

[Tadashi Sakuma]

"Tahara Tsuguro et al., eds., Japanese Thought Series 32: Yamaga Sogyo (1970, Iwanami Shoten)"

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江戸前期の儒者・兵学者山鹿素行(やまがそこう)の著書。3巻。1665年（寛文5）成立、翌年刊行。本書に先だち素行の門人たちによって『山鹿語類』が編纂(へんさん)されていたが、本書はその巻33から巻43までの「聖学篇(へん)」を抜粋要約したもの。刊行により、本書は幕府から「不届成(ふとどきなる)書物」とされ、素行は播磨(はりま)赤穂(あこう)に配流されることになる。本書において、かつて自らも信奉したこともある朱子学は批判され、「周公・孔子を師として、漢(かん)・唐(とう)・宋(そう)・明(みん)の諸儒を師とせず」とする古学転回後の素行学が体系的に展開され、「聖人」「道」「理」「徳」「誠」「天地」「性」「心」「道原」など28の重要語句に対して、簡にして要を得た説明がなされている。天地に則(のっと)り、人物の情にもとることなく、事業・法礼を廃棄せず、性心をもてあそぶことなく具体的な教えを述べるもの、と自ら示した「聖学」（素行学）の核心はほぼ本書に尽きているのであり、その意味において本書は「素行学原論」とでも称すべきものである。

［佐久間正］

『田原嗣郎他編『日本思想大系 32　山鹿素行』（1970・岩波書店）』

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