Abstract: Chinese thoughts and cultures have spread from Korean Peninsula into Japan, and been presented in new form safter assimilation and transformation by Japanese nation. In the field of comparative study on thoughts between Chinese and Japanese,Japanese scholar Mizoguchi Kozo took conceptual comparison as the hitting point, combined objective historical facts of culture and history in these two countries, utilized diversified research methods like literature,etymology and social survey, so as to conductcomparison on the concepts such as “Tian”,“Gong Si”,“Li” and “Xin” within the philosophical thoughts of Chinese and Japanese.Through comparison, he explored different interpretations of Chinese and Japanese ideological concepts in cultural context. On this basis, he attempted to reestablish the cultural cognition of Chinese and Japanese cultures. Meanwhile, he provided a new idea on interdisciplinary cultural comparative study.

Key words: Mizoguchi Kozo, comparison between Chinese and Japanese thoughts, Tian, GongSi, Li, Xin