YAMAGA SOKŌ (1622–1685), Japanese Confucian of the school of Ancient Learning (Kogaku). Sokō was born in Aizu, the son of a masterless warrior named Yamaga Sadamochi (1585–1664) and Sadamochi's mistress, Myōchi...

Yamaga SokŌ(1622–1685) Yamaga Sokō was a Japanese Confucianist of the kogakuha, or "school of ancient learning," and codifier of the ethics of the military class, Bushidō, the "way of the...

Yamaga Sokō (山鹿素行, September 21, 1622 - October 23, 1685) was a Japanese philosopher and strategist during the Tokugawa shogunate. He was a Confucian, and applied Confucius's idea of the "superior man" to the samurai class of Japan. This became...

Hwang Sok-yong. The Guest. Kyung-Ja Chun & Maya West, trs. New York. Seven Stories. 2005. 240 pages. $27.95. ISBN 1-58322-693-1 IT WAS SOCRATES who told the Athenians to direct one eye outside and the other in. That's exactly what the award-winning Korean novelist...

Introduction In the autumn of 1682, Yamaga Soko (1622-1685), then sixty and within three years of his death, had a telling dream. In it, he envisioned a two-line note written on vermilion paper, authored by none other than Hotta Masatoshi (1631-1684). (1) Masatoshi,...