history of japanese thought

This book describes the development of Japanese intellectual history from the age of mythology to the modern age. Before modern times, Confucianism and Buddhism from China constituted the main source of Japanese thought; after modern times, modern thought from the West was added, and Japanese thought moved forward in the process of reconciling and correcting these foreign thoughts. develop. The author believes that Japan's "royal power" and "gods and Buddhas" can be regarded as the two poles of Japanese intellectual history, and from this, the changes in the tension between the "cultural world" and "living world" can be observed, thus constructing the Japanese thought. basic schema of history. The whole book presents the complex context of Japanese thought history in simple and easy-to-understand language. It is a rare masterpiece for understanding the development of Japanese thought.