RT Book T1 Buddhist-Confucian polemics in seventeenth-century Japan: the critics of Hayashi Razan T2 Brill's Japanese studies library A1 Boot, W. J. A2 Boot, W. J. A2 Boot, W. J. A2 Boot, W. J. LA English LA Japanese PP Leiden Boston PB Brill YR 2025 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1921766484 AB "The History of Thought of the Edo Period is a lively area of research. You have the choice between Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, National Studies, and Dutch Studies, none of which was the state ideology, and all of which were practised together in a small, interactive intellectual world. The intellectuals shared a common language (classical Chinese), and polemics was one of the ways in which they interacted. This volume contains the new, annotated translations of two of such polemical treatises (dating from 1686 and 1687): two Buddhist monks attacking the "arch-Confucian" Hayashi Razan (1583-1657) in the name of Buddhism and Shinto"-- NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN BQ4050 SN 978-90-04-72027-5 K1 Hayashi, Razan : 1583-1657 : Honchō jinja kō K1 Buddhism : Apologetic works K1 Buddhism : Early works to 1800 K1 Buddhism : Relations : Confucianism K1 Confucianism : Relations : Buddhism K1 Buddhism : Japan : History : 1600-1868 K1 Japan : Religion : 1600-1868