The edition of RYUSHI SHINRON inserted on JHTI is from the Ryushi shinron (Master Ryū’s New Thesis), taken from the Nihon Shisō Taikei (Series on Japanese Thought, vol. 38, pp. 391-419) published by Iwanami Publishing Company in 1976. The copyright negotiation with Iwanami is pending, but permission to publish this text electronically was verbally granted by Iwanami in April 2012. Each paragraph of this text, electronically reproduced, is included in JHTI.
The English translation of the RYUSHI SHINRON inserted on JHTI is from Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued: Yamagata Daini's Ryūshi shinron of 1759 by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (University of Hawai'i Press, 1995, pp. 127-171). Permission to publish this translation electronically was granted by the translator, Dr. Bob Wakabayashi, to JHTI in March 2014.
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