Perspectives on Political Science, June 22nd, 1999
Najita, Tetsuo, ed. Tokugawa Political Writings New York: Cambridge University Press 156 pp. + lxxiii, $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-521-56186-8 cloth ISBN 0-521-56717-3 paper Publication Date: September 1998
This pithy volume, edited by Tetsuo Najita of the University of Chicago, makes available to Western readers important writings on political theory by Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728). Most Western scholars of Japan, although familiar with the political history of the Tokugawa regime (1603-1868) and the "restoration" of the emperor's authority in 1868, are less knowledgeable about the basis i...
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