VIEWPOINTS COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

1. How might Li have responded to Kaibara Ekiken and Kaibara Tōken’s advice book? How might they have responded to his work?
2. What might Kaibara Ekiken and Kaibara Tōken have made of the Japanese use of “antipollution passes”?
3. How do the works included in this feature demonstrate the power of traditional gender norms in Chinese and Japanese society? How do they reveal the limits of that power?