Onna Daigaku and Selected Works of Monzaemon Chikamatsu and Ihara Saikaku

Abstract

nna Daigaku or The Greater Learning for Women, written in 1716, is attributed to Ikken Kaibara . Kaibara, a scholar of Japanese literature, had a great knowledge of Chinese literature and was known as a famous moralist. Onna Daigaku is attributed to Kaibara because it closely resembles the content of the chapter entitled "Women's Education" in his treatise on education, Wazoku Dojikun (1710) . Wakako Hironaka writes in the Kodansha Encyclopedia .