Tanegashima: the arrival of Europe in Japan
In: Nordic Institute of Asian studies monograph series 90
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In: Nordic Institute of Asian studies monograph series 90
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 567-580
ISSN: 1469-8099
Little did it occur to me when I began to translate Ogyū Sorai's Kyōchūkikō ('Report from Journey to Kai') some years ago that this endeavour would lead me to the first work that was written by this philosopher. Even after I had shown that the Kyōchūkikō was only a new and shorter edition (1710) of the earlier travelogue Fūryūshishaki ('Report of the Elegant Emissaries'), written in 1706, it still took time before I realized that this must be the very first work to come from Sorai's brush. The Fūryūshishaki must be his first work and this means that he was 40 before he wrote anything that was literary, and of any length. What we have from before that time are short pieces, letters, poems, and memoranda; also the lexical work Yakubun sentei, which was probably written, at least partially, before 1706.
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 567
ISSN: 0026-749X
In: Izumi Bd. 5
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 289
ISSN: 1715-3379