Master Sorai's Responsals : : An Annotated Translation of Sorai sensei tōmonsho / / Samuel Hideo Yamashita.
Master Sorai's Responsals was to eighteenth-century Japan what The Prince was to Renaissance Italy. Like Machiavelli, Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728) was a humanist scholar who served a prince (one of the shogun's chief lieutenants) and drew on his experiences as a house philosopher and on his vast...
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