斯し文ぶん

noun

this field of study; Confucian studies

A formal, literary term referring to one's own academic discipline or, historically, to Confucian learning. In modern usage it is rare and mostly encountered in scholarly or classical contexts.

• 彼かれは斯し文ぶんに生しょう涯がいを捧ささげた学がく者しゃだった。

  He was a scholar who devoted his life to this field of study.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、斯し文ぶんは武ぶ士しの教きょう養ようの中ちゅう心しんだった。

  In the Edo period, Confucian studies were central to samurai education.