著者

吉田 宰

出版者

日本近世文学会

雑誌

近世文藝 (ISSN:03873412)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.105, pp.17-30, 2017

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Nishimura-Enri (1718-1787) is an amateur astronomer in Kyoto who wrote <i>Kyokōshi</i> (1775), <i>Uchū-mondō</i> (1778), and many other essays. Tatsuo Hino, one of few critics who deal with his essays, importantly notes that the author often cites Kumazawa-Banzan's Confucian discourses. Indeed, although he learned much about astronomy from his predecessor Nishikawa-Joken, his philosophical aspect was to no small degree cultivated under the influence of Bazan. Critically following Hino's argument, here I will examine Nishimura's philosophical astronomy in order to shed a new light on the humanities and sciences of the mid-Edo Period.