{{Short description|Japanese scholar of Chinese intellectual history}} {{Infobox scholar | name = Toshikuni Hihara | native_name = 日原 利国 | birth_date = 1927 | birth_place = Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan | death_date = 1984 | discipline = Chinese intellectual history | workplaces = Kyoto University | education = Doctor of Literature }}
'''Toshikuni Hihara''' (Japanese: 日原 利国; 1927–1984) was a Japanese sinologist and historian. He was born in Yamanashi Prefecture and served as a professor at the Faculty of Letters, [[Kyoto University]]. He specialized in the history of Chinese thought and held a Doctor of Literature degree.<ref>''Chūgoku Shisō Jiten'', p. 453 (not paginated)</ref>
He was the editor of the ''Chūgoku Shisō Jiten'' (中国思想辞典, ''Dictionary of Chinese Thought''; 1984)<ref>cambridge.org: [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies/article/abs/chugoku-shiso-jiten-dictionary-of-chinese-thought-edited-by-hihara-toshikuni-tokyo-kenbun-shuppan-1984-452-pp-list-of-contributors-index-of-entries-y6800/47DB7CC0BD836EF4DE0410A4DFFB9A2D Review] (in partial view)</ref> of which a second edition was published after his death, revised by Usami Kazuhiro.<ref>Publisher’s preface, October 1992</ref>
== Works ==
Authored and translated books (in selection):
* ''Shunjū Kōyōden no Kenkyū'' (春秋公羊伝の研究, ''Studies on the ''Spring and Autumn Annals'' with the Gongyang Commentary''), Sōbunsha. * ''Kandai Shisō no Kenkyū'' (漢代思想の研究, ''Studies of Han Dynasty Thought''), Kenbun Shuppan. * ''Shunjū Hanro'' (春秋繁露; ''[[Chunqiu Fanlu]]''), Meitoku Shuppansha. * ''Mōshi'' (孟子, ''[[Mencius]]''), Japanese translation (co-translator), Chikuma Shobō. * ''Junshi'' (荀子, ''[[Xunzi (book)|Xunzi]]''), Japanese translation (co-translator), Heibonsha. * ''Zoku Shodan'' (続書断; Chinese: ''Xu Shuduan'' 續書斷), Nigensha. * ''Senwa Shofu'' (宣和書譜; Chinese: ''Xuanhe Shupu''), Nigensha. * ''Meiritsu Kokuji Kai'' (明律国字解, ''The Ming Dynasty Legal Code Explained in Japanese''), Sōbunsha. * (Editor) ''Chūgoku Shisōshi'' (中国思想史, ''History of Chinese Thought''), Vols. 1–2, Tokyo: Perikansha 1987
== References == <references />
== Bibliography == * ''Chūgoku Shisō Jiten'' (中国思想辞典, ''Dictionary of Chinese Thought''). Edited by Toshikuni Hihara. Kenbun Shuppan, 1984. ISBN 487636043X (with a short biography)
== External links == * [https://cir.nii.ac.jp/all?q=%E6%97%A5%E5%8E%9F%E5%88%A9%E5%9B%BD+ 日原利国] * [https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/en/histories-of-philosophy/histories-of-philosophy/japanese/20th-and-21st-century/chinese-philosophy/ Chinese Philosophy and Thought]
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