“Zhu Shun Shui’s Academic Thought and Its Impact on Tokugawa Period of Japanese Culture”
Abstract
Ming Adherents Zhu Shun-shui(朱舜水) (1600.11.12~1682.4.17)bring the grief and indignation emotion to exile overseas. He still wanted "back to the Ming Dynasty", consequently, aggressive of go to Vietnam and Japan etc. place, the request supports. When he first time arrived in Vietnam, that officials didn''t courteously. They want to force Zhu Shun-Shui kneeling down to Vietnamese king. Zhu Shun-Shui would rather be killed, do not humiliated, these things are all recorded.(<annan gong yi ji shi>〈安南供役紀事〉)In 1661, Antou Seian(安東省菴) and others to help, and Zhu Shun-Shui finally achieved to be eligible for long-term stay in Japan. Oyake Shosai (小宅處齋) invited him to assist the Mito Tokugawa Mitsukuni (德川光圀) governance of state affairs. Since then, Zhu Shun-shui and Japanese academic, political and cultural have close relationships.
His unique life experiences to form his thinking, and now people have called it "Shunshui xue".(「舜水學」) "Shunshui xue"of the formation, from the late Ming politics reflect ,then the " Practical Learning " become his core of idea.
Chinese culture like "loyalty,"(忠) "filial piety,"(孝) " Tian,"(天) " gui shen,"
(鬼神)and any others about thinking method, how to communicate with the Japanese culture. Therefore, we will by contrast, induction, analysis for the study of Chinese-Japanese cultural exchanges.