Deep Words contains translations of Honso, the "Core Text" of Gengo, by Miura Baien, 1723-1789 - a widely renowned Japanese teacher and writer of his time; Genkiron, an early draft of Gengo; and Reply to Taga, an exposition of Honso.
Rosemary Mercer has been a lecturer in philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, and also at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, where she is presently engaged in research in Japanese philosophy of the Tokugawa period.
specialists in the history of Japanese intellectual thought, history of science in China and Japan, Chinese and Japanese Neo-Confucianism.