7th East Asia Culture Research Meeting of 2010

Speaker: Shyu Shing-ching (Professor, National Taiwan University Department of Japanese Language and Literature)

Date: 26th October 2010, 18:30-20:30

Venue: Hosei University Ichigaya Campus, ’58 Building 2F Research Center for International Japanese Studies Seminar Room

Chair: WANG Min (Professor, Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies)

Summary of Meeting

We welcomed Prof. Dr. Shyu Shing-ching, National Taiwan University Department of Japanese Language and Literature, and conducted the meeting on the theme of “Zhu Shunshui from the point of view of East Asia”.

In this report, Prof. Shyu discussed about activities of Zhu Shunshui focusing on Nihon Kisshi, call for reinforcements to Japan, and his influence toward early Mitogaku school.

Prof. Shyu pointed out that Zhu Shunshui’s Nihon Kisshi caused controversy with Chinese political movement on reconstruction of social order to Tokugawa Shogunate.

Zhu Shunshui’s advocacy of the importance of practical sciences received empathy from Confucianists in the early Edo period Japan. In this meaning Zhu Shunshui was a kind of transmitter of civilisation and devoted his knowledge and wisdom to Japanese cultural development.

Reported by SUZUMURA Yusuke (Visiting Academic Researcher, Research Center for International Japanese Studies, Hosei University)