Kyosai Wakabayashi

Japanese: 若林強斎 - わかばやし・きょうさい

Year of death: January 20, 1732 (February 15, 1732)
Year of birth: 7th July 8th Enpo (1679.8.14)
A Confucian scholar from the mid-Edo period. His given name was Masayoshi, later Shinkyo, and the pen name Kyosai. Born in Kyoto, he became a disciple of Asami Keisai at around the age of 24. After 10 years of hard work, he is known as one of the three greatest disciples of Keisai. After Keisai's death, he lectured his students on Neo-Confucianism of the Saki school, but unlike his teacher, he also became deeply devoted to Shinto. He inherited Yamazaki Ansai's Suika Shinto, and based on the idea of the unity of Shinto and Confucianism, he emphasized the simultaneous study of Confucianism and Shinto. This can be said to be a form of Neo-Confucianism that was more Japanized. His works include Kyosai Sensei Zasawa Bunki, written by his senior disciple Yamaguchi Shunsui, and Daigaku Jo Kokyu, which explains Neo-Confucianism from the perspective of Shinto. <References> Ushio Hirotaka, Wakabayashi Kyosai (Series: Japanese Thinkers, Volume 13)

(Atsushi Shibata)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：享保17.1.20(1732.2.15)
生年：延宝7.7.8(1679.8.14)
江戸中期の儒学者。名は正義,のちに進居,強斎は号。京都に生まれ,24歳ごろ,浅見絅斎に入門する。苦学すること10年,絅斎門下三傑のひとりと称される。絅斎没後,門人に崎門の朱子学を講じるが,師と異なり神道にも深く傾倒していく。山崎闇斎の垂加神道を継承し,神儒一致の考え方に基づき,儒教と神道の兼学を強調した。朱子学をより日本化させたひとつの姿といえる。高弟山口春水の手になる『強斎先生雑話筆記』のほか,神道によって朱子の文を解した『大学序講義』などがある。<参考文献>牛尾弘孝『若林強斎』(叢書・日本の思想家13巻)

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