Approximately 150 materials on Ogyu Sorai, a Confucian scholar in the Edo period who explained to the Shogunate a novel way of thinking about the economy and recruitment of human resources, were donated to the University of Tokyo for research.
Ogyu Sorai was a Confucian scholar in the Edo period who was asked by Yoshimune Tokugawa, the 8th general, to explain the importance of recruiting human resources regardless of his status, and influenced many intellectuals.
The descendant Ogyu family has kept about 150 materials for nearly 300 years after the death of Ogyu, but recently donated them to the Komaba Library of the University of Tokyo so that they could be widely used for his research.
Of these, the draft of "Wu Gyu Jueju Hyakushu uta", which is annotated with Chinese poetry, has sidelines and writings everywhere, and you can trace the process of Sorai's recommendation.
In addition, letters from the disciples are left behind, and it is expected to be a valuable material that approaches the real image of Ogyū Sorai, who had his own ideas about economic policy and how to deal with the swaying Ako Ronin.
Daiki Takayama, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, said, "If the understanding of Ogyū Sorai changes through future research, there is a possibility that the perspective on culture and learning in the Edo period will change. I want to. "