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Jiseiroku （ 自省録，Meditations）, by the Korean neo-Confucianist Yi T’oegye （1501-1570）, influenced Japanese Confucianists in the Tokugawa period, such as Yamazaki Ansai（ 1618-1682） and Otsuka Taiya（ 1677-1750）. Yokoi Shōnan（1809-1869）, a Confucianist and samurai from the Kumamoto domain, was deeply moved by this book and claimed Yi T’oegye to be one of two true Confucianists since Zhu Xi（ 1130-1200） and highly recommended its reading. I have attempted in this paper to examine the influence of Jiseiroku on Shōnan’s thought in his thirties and early forties, and his following discourses and way of life. I introduce the thought of Otsuka Taiya, a neo-Confucianist also from Kumamoto, because he, too, was impressed by Jiseiroku and respected by Shōnan. Shōnan read the writings and analects of Taiya and laid the ground for the adoption of T’oegye’s stoic discipline and departure from worldly interests. I conclude that, for Shōnan, Yi T’oegye was not only the model for the Confucian way of life in the face of adversity, but also an example for self-cultivation leading to a freedom from worldly interests. |
