Master Sorai's responsals
an annotated translation of Sorai Sensei Tōmonsho
by Sorai Ogyū
Master Sorai's Responsals was to eighteenth-century Japan what The Prince was to Renaissance Italy. Like Machiavelli, Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728) was a humanist scholar who served a prince (one of the shogun's chief lieutenants) and drew on his experiences as a house philosopher and on his vast knowledge of history and political affairs in his work.
In 1720, when he began to write the letters that comprise this text, the Tokugawa regime was more than a hundred years old and beset with grave administrative and fiscal problems, about which Sorai had much to say.
Samuel Yamashita's impressive translation of this work offers modern readers a rare glimpse of the prevailing political discourse of the day and the specific concepts that rulers had at their disposal as they struggled to manage their domains, find talented men for their bureaucracies, create new sources of revenue, and keep their subjects well fed and happy.
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Agrarische ontwikkeling, Landbevolkerung, Food supply, Aliments, Approvisionnement, Infrastructure, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Conditions rurales, Rural population, Ernahrung, Villages, General, Case studies, Ernahrungsgewohnheit, Population rurale, Dorpen, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Etudes de Cas, Philosophy, japanese| Edition | Availability |
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Master Sorai's responsals: an annotated translation of Sorai Sensei Tōmonsho
1994, University of Hawaii Press
in English
082481570X 9780824815707
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