荻生徂徠の市民社会（政談）

It was Sorai\u27s conclusion after long studies of Chinese and Japanese history and after a 60-year long life that political disorder emanates from impoverishment. Prosperity is what makes a state live on, while impoverishment spells the downfall of a state. It was because the institutions had been beneficial in early China that impoverishment had not appeared and that the dynasties had lasted for more than 500 years. With a correct seido Sorai envisages that the Tokugawa state will also be prosperous and last for as long. With this in mind he wrote his memorandum, in which he described the sad situation and presented Shogun Yoshimune with numerous proposals for political and economic reforms.The paper finally compares the institutions which Sorai envisaged to be the correct ones on the go-board of Japan with the institutions which developed in Europe about the same time

招待発表（1） 『風流使者記』から『峡中紀行』へ ―荻生徂徠の紀行文学―

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\u27s 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