朱しゅ子し学がく

noun

neo-Confucianism (Zhu Xi school); Cheng-Zhu school

Refers specifically to the philosophical system developed by Zhu Xi and his predecessors, which became influential in East Asia. In Japanese contexts, it often denotes the orthodox Confucianism of the Edo period.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、朱しゅ子し学がくは幕ばく府ふの正せい統とうな学がく問もんとされた。

  During the Edo period, Zhu Xi's neo-Confucianism was regarded as the orthodox scholarship of the shogunate.

• 彼かれは朱しゅ子し学がくの研けん究きゅう者しゃとして知しられている。

  He is known as a scholar of the Cheng-Zhu school.