著者

Lidin Olof G

出版者

国文学研究資料館

雑誌

国際日本文学研究集会会議録 = PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE (ISSN:ISSN0387)

巻号頁・発行日

no.6, pp.96-107, 1983-03-01

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In 1706 Ogyū Sorai went for his lord, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, to Kai Province. During the journey he wrote a travel chronicle, together with his companion Tanaka Shōgo, which was presented to Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu upon return to Edo. Four years later (1710) Ogyū Sorai revised this chronicle, made it shorter, and gave it the title Kyōchūkikō. The title of the first version was Fūryūshishaki.The Fūryūshishaki and Kyōchūkikō were Ogyū Sorai's first literary works. Before 1706 we do not find much written by him. In a certain sense they were also his last literary works. Most of his later writings were in philosophy, political science, military matters, and other academic fields. At 40 years of age Ogyū Sorai began his literary career by writing a travelogue in which he showed his rich personality as in no later academic work. Unfortunately, he never again tried his hand at this sort of literature.In the study of Ogyū Sorai the Fūryūshishaki and the Kyōchūkikō are the natural starting-point. From there one can continue with his philosophical works and perhaps finish with his political work Seidan, which he wrote late in life.