| Abstract |
This paper focuses on Igai Keisyo’s Souko Syomei, includes the problems of its purpose, object, contents, method and justification. His motive of writing Souko Syomei was to criticize the plagiarism and fabrication of Sorai School. Igai listed Sorai School’s misapplication on country name and place names of Japan, official position and salutation of other and self. He used the textual method to the breach classical literature method and established the precedent on textual criticism in the end of Edo Period. Souko Syomei is the combination of anti-sorai and patriotism. The purpose of Igai’s writing is to respect the Mikado of Japan, to make Japan as subject and China as object, and to emphasize that Japan is the real “China” (the central). By correcting the name and manner and cancelling the respectively of China and barbarian in East Asia (the central and the edge), the subjectivity of the state system of Japan can be protected.
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