the JR Kosei Line. Nakae was unusual in teaching that humanism transcended social status or gender, and that his teachings would be useful to women as well as men. While accepting the then standard view of women as usually lacking such virtues as compassion and honesty, he argued: "if a wife's disposition is healthy and pious, obedient, sympathetic and honest, then ... every member of her family will be at peace and the entire household in perfect order." His teachings spread widely not only to samurai but also to farmers, merchants, and craftsmen, and has been spontaneously called "Ōmi saint" since the middle of the Edo period. His later disciples included Yoshida Shoin. Gallery Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Nakae Tōju, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 130+ works in 200 publications in 5 languages and 740+ library holdings. 1650 -- Dialogue with the elder (Okina mondō). 藤樹遺稿 (1795) 翁問答 (1831) 藤樹全書: 中江藤樹先生遺稿 (1893) 中江藤樹文集 (1914) 孝經五種 (1925) Nakae Tōju sensei zenshu (1928) 鑑草; 附・春風; 陰騭 (1939) 藤樹先生全集 (1940) 中江藤樹・熊沢蕃山集 (1966) 中江藤樹 (1974) 中江藤樹・熊沢蕃山 (1976) See also List of Historic Sites of Japan (Shiga) Notes References Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice. (1997). "Confucianism in Japan" in Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy (Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam, eds). London: Routledge. ; OCLC 35049601 de Bary, William Theodore. (1981). Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart. New York: Columbia University Press. ; OCLC 7461831 Nauman, St. Elmo. (1979). Dictionary of Asian Philosophies. London: Routledge. ; OCLC 470939937 Shirane, Haruo. (2002). Early Modern Japanese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press. ; ; OCLC 48084101 Nakae Tōju Britannica Concise Encyclopedia 2006. Retrieved: March 26, 2006. External links Intellectual Currents in Tokugawa Japan — by Jason Chan; includes extracts from Toju's writings Takashima City web site: Toju Nakae and Toju shoin national historical site Toju's hometown in Japan — set of (stereo) photographs East Asia Institute, University of Cambridge: Further reading/bibliography 1608 births 1648 deaths 17th-century Japanese philosophers Confucianism in Japan Japanese Confucianists Japanese writers of the Edo period People from Shiga Prefecture Historic Sites of Japan