John A. TuckerJohn A. Tucker is a professor of history at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He specializes in early modern Japanese Confucianism and its varied roles in the intellectual history of Japan. He is the author of The Forty-Seven Rōin: The Vendetta in History (2018), as well as translation studies of Itō Jinsai's Gomō jigi (1998) and Ogyū Sorai's Bendō and Benmei (2006). He co-edited Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy (2014) with Chun-chieh Huang, and edited a four-volume series, Critical Readings on Japanese Confucianism (2013). Read More Read Less