Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Reinterpreting Matsumiya Kanzan: On the Interval between State Shintō and the Idea of the Three Religions
- Chapter 2 The Confucian Classics in the Political Thought of Sakuma Shōzan
- Chapter 3 The Confucian Traits Featuring in the Meiroku Zasshi
- Chapter 4 The Invention of “Chinese Philosophy”: How Did the Classics Take Root in Japan’s First Modern University?
- Chapter 5 Inoue Tetsujirō and Modern Yangming Learning in Japan
- Chapter 6 Kokumin Dōtoku for Women: Shimoda Utako in the Taishō Era
- Chapter 7 Modern Contextual Turns from “The Kingly Way” to “The Imperial Way”
- Chapter 8 The Discourse on Imperial Way Confucian Thought: The Link between Daitō Bunka Gakuin and Chosŏn Gyunghakwon
- Chapter 9 The Image of the Kingly Way during the War: Focusing on Takada Shinji’s Imperial Way Discourse
- Chapter 10 Watsuji Tetsurō’s Confucian Bonds: From Totalitarianism to New Confucianism
- Chapter 11 Thinking about Confucianism and Modernity in the Early Postwar Period: Watsuji Tetsurō’s The History of Ethical Thought in Japan
- Chapter 12 Yasuoka Masahiro and the Survival of Confucianism in Postwar Japan, 1945–1983
- Chapter 13 Universalizing “Kingly Way” Confucianism: A Japanese Legacy and Chinese Future?
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
Chapter 8 - The Discourse on Imperial Way Confucian Thought: The Link between Daitō Bunka Gakuin and Chosŏn Gyunghakwon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2023
- Frontmatter
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Reinterpreting Matsumiya Kanzan: On the Interval between State Shintō and the Idea of the Three Religions
- Chapter 2 The Confucian Classics in the Political Thought of Sakuma Shōzan
- Chapter 3 The Confucian Traits Featuring in the Meiroku Zasshi
- Chapter 4 The Invention of “Chinese Philosophy”: How Did the Classics Take Root in Japan’s First Modern University?
- Chapter 5 Inoue Tetsujirō and Modern Yangming Learning in Japan
- Chapter 6 Kokumin Dōtoku for Women: Shimoda Utako in the Taishō Era
- Chapter 7 Modern Contextual Turns from “The Kingly Way” to “The Imperial Way”
- Chapter 8 The Discourse on Imperial Way Confucian Thought: The Link between Daitō Bunka Gakuin and Chosŏn Gyunghakwon
- Chapter 9 The Image of the Kingly Way during the War: Focusing on Takada Shinji’s Imperial Way Discourse
- Chapter 10 Watsuji Tetsurō’s Confucian Bonds: From Totalitarianism to New Confucianism
- Chapter 11 Thinking about Confucianism and Modernity in the Early Postwar Period: Watsuji Tetsurō’s The History of Ethical Thought in Japan
- Chapter 12 Yasuoka Masahiro and the Survival of Confucianism in Postwar Japan, 1945–1983
- Chapter 13 Universalizing “Kingly Way” Confucianism: A Japanese Legacy and Chinese Future?
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
Confucius was neither an advocate of classicism nor a glib progressive. He made the Great Way his model, led fairly, did not divide the scholar and the warrior, combined wisdom, benevolence, and courage, respected the ruler and loved the nation. Everything he held up was perfectly consistent with the Japanese Spirit. His virtuous teachings clarify superbly our Imperial Way and have long provided support for our Imperial Way. (Takada Shinji, “The Greater East Asian War and the Shibunkai”).
Our Shibunkai has long supported the promotion of the precepts in the Imperial Rescript on Education, by purifying the teachings of Confucius and integrating them with the Imperial Way. Simply stated, we could call it Mito Learning. (Uno Tetsudō, “The Mission of the Shibunkai in the Current Situation”).
Introduction: Memories of Imperial Way Confucianism in Korea
This essay investigates discourse concerning Imperial Way Confucianism (皇道儒教 Kōdō jukyō) considered academically authoritative in Korea, in terms of the intellectual links between Imperial Japan and colonial Korea. While research on Imperial Way Buddhism has produced substantial results in Japan, Imperial Way Confucianism in colonial Korea has yet to become a common topic, appearing primarily in colonial-era research by Korean students studying in Japan related to the Chosŏn Gyunghakwon Confucianism Institute (조선 경학원; in Japanese 朝鮮経学院 Chōsen Keigakuin), together with occasional mentions in modern and religious history written by Japanese or Korean scholars. The majority of the research related to Imperial Way Confucianism was conducted by individuals affiliated with Daitō Bunka University (大東文化大学 Daitō Bunka Daigaku), founded as Daitō Bunka Gakuin (大 東文化学院) in 1924, and re-founded as a university in 1949. Its mission statement included the study of “Confucianism that purifies the Imperial Way and national polity.” It cannot be said, however, that the scope of this research included Japanese Confucianism or Imperial Way Confucianism in the 1930s.
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- Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan , pp. 111 - 129Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022