@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006146,
 author = {LIDIN, Olof G.},
 journal = {Nichibunken Japan review : bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies},
 month = {Jan},
 note = {It was Sorai's conclusion after long studies of Chinese and Japanese history and after a 60-year long life that political disorder emanates from impoverishment.  Prosperity is what makes a state live on, while impoverishment spells the downfall of a state.  It was because the institutions had been beneficial in early China that impoverishment had not appeared and that the dynasties had lasted for more than 500 years.  With a correct seido Sorai envisages that the Tokugawa state will also be prosperous and last for as long.  With this in mind he wrote his memorandum, in which he described the sad situation and presented Shogun Yoshimune with numerous proposals for political and economic reforms.
The paper finally compares the institutions which Sorai envisaged to be the correct ones on the go-board of Japan with the institutions which developed in Europe about the same time.},
 pages = {3--13},
 title = {Ogyū Sorai's Civil Society (Seidan)},
 volume = {5},
 year = {1994}
}