Zhu Xi's Jiali

Family Rituals was widely read in Korea

Ryukyu and Vietnam as well as China and became the most important book of Confucianism rituals in pre-modern East Asia. In Japan this book was also accepted and several Japanese versions

Wakoku-bon was published in Edo period. But there are almost no studies about those texts up to now. In this paper

I will take up three kinds of Japanese version of Jiali and do research on its formation

characteristic

and Chinese original text. These texts are: Jiali 5volumes by ASAMI Keisai

Wengong Jiali Yijie 8volumes

and Jiali 4volumes in Xingli Daquan by KOIDE Eian.