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Ito Jinsai's Gomo Jigi and the Philosophical Definition of Early Modern Japan. ¯ ¯ By John Allen Tucker. Leiden: Brill, 1998. Pp. xiv þ 282. Reviewed by Samuel Hideo Yamashita Pomona College Reading English translations of Asian philosophical works that one knows only in the original Classical Chinese can be exhilarating. For the first time, one can read quickly, even scan, a text whose linguistic difficulty has always slowed the eye and forced one to proceed at a snail's pace. Translations also enable those who don't know the original language to read these texts and thus greatly enlarge their readership. For these reasons John Tucker's Ito Jinsai's Gomo Jigi and the Philosophical ¯ ¯ Definition of Early Modern Japan is welcome. It is the first English rendering of the Gomo jigi (Philosophical lexicography of the Analects and the Mencius), an impor¯ tant philosophical text by Ito Jinsai (16271705), the seventeenth-century Japanese ¯ Confucian and founder of a school of ancient learning. Tucker's book is more than just a translation, however. It offers a bold, new interpretation of Jinsai that sees him not as the antiNeo-Confucian that generations of modern scholars have made him out to be but as
Philosophy East and West – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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