Tominaga Nakamoto and Andō Shōeki
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1983
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Macmillan
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Kato, Shuichi. “Tominaga Nakamoto and Andō Shōeki.” In his A History of Japanese Literature. Vol. 2 The Years of Isolation. Trans. Don Sanderson (London: Macmillan, 1983), 129-42. Author’s name is on the book as stated but given by the translator as Katō. The utopian being considered is Andō Shōeki (ca 1703/7-?), who wrote Shizen shin ‘eidō (The Way of Nature and True Vocation) (1755) in 100 volumes, with vol. 25 on his ideal society, which projects a “life of nature” into the future (136-42).
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Author’s name is on the book as stated but given by the translator as Katō. The utopian being considered is Andō Shōeki (ca 1703/7-?), who wrote Shizen shin ‘eidō (The Way of Nature and True Vocation) (1755) in 100 volumes, with vol. 25 on his ideal society, which projects a “life of nature” into the future (136-42)