Tokugawa Feudal System Collapse

The aim of the writing was that ‘verifying most clearly and certainly the necessity of what the Tokugawa feudal system collapsed’ from a point of view, for instance, history of thought, thus followed the crushed process of such legitimate worldview in the feudal Japan as Confucian, especially neo-Confucian in the country, then, explaining ‘a pattern of modernization in Japanese thought widely and in Japanese society narrowly’. Moreover, this work has three parts that appeared each independently in an academic magazine in the wartime period 1940s, all having consistency with the same critical mind, is complemented mutually. Besides, Maruyama’s writing feels like ‘an artwork’ with the elaborate theory, splendid style, which might never compare with any others, seems to be difficult to summarize in a short introduction comparable to this indeed.
In the following second part shows that ‘to be natural’ and ‘to be artificial’ in the early modern intellectual history of Japan as the contrary systems each, in addition to, the last one, there the author is explaining of the formation of the nationalism in the early period. The main points of this work are summarized in the following outline that the second part is the key in the contents especially, verifies the early modern intellectual history of Japan as ‘a questionable history’ with a point of view of ‘how to consider or base the feudal social system of Japan’, was proved by both the first and third