Über den Autor Banzan, Kumazawa
John A. Tucker is a professor of history at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He specializes in early modern Japanese Confucianism and its varied roles in the intellectual history of Japan. He is the author of The Forty-Seven Ronin: The Vendetta in History (2018), as well as translation studies of Ito Jinsai's Gomo jigi (1998) and Ogyu Sorai's Bendo and Benmei (2006). He co-edited Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy (2014) with Chun-chieh Huang, and edited a four-volume series, Critical Readings on Japanese Confucianism (2013).