ITO Jinsai and Jigekanjin During the Kanbun with the Cue of YAMAGATA Munefusa

As the most important outcome of the social interaction between ITO Jinsai and YAMAGATA Munefusa, the article 論語父在觀其志章解 from the Collection Works of Ito Jinsai is taken by this paper as a clue to sort out the biographies of the three brothers of jigekanjin Munefusa and their communication with Jinsai. Specifically, this paper presents an overview of the content of the article 論語父在觀其志章解 and investigates the similarities and differences between it and the same chapter of the second Volume of Jinsai’s main work 論語古義. As a conclusion, this paper indicates that Jinsai held a significant interest in ritual studies during the Kanbun, and one of the causes of this interest was exactly the social interaction between Jinsai and jigekanjin. This paper offers a different image of Jinsai from the previous studies and therefore provides a different perspective for the Jinsai study.