Kinoshita Jun'an
Kinoshita Jun'an | |
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| Born | July 22, 1621 |
| Died | January 23, 1699 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Confucian scholar, Philosopher |
Kinoshita Jun'an (木下 順庵, 22 July 1621 – 23 January 1699) was a Japanese philosopher and Confucian scholar of the early Edo period, in the Neo-Confucian tradition of Zhu Xi.
Biography[]
Born in Kyoto as the second of five brothers, Kinoshita was a child prodigy, and studied under .
In 1682, the fifth Tokugawa shōgun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, appointed him tutor to the court.
A famed educator, Kinoshita's students include Arai Hakuseki (who became advisor to the sixth Tokugawa shōgun, Tokugawa Ienobu), , Gion Nankai, Muro Kyūsō, , and .
References[]
- Zenan Shu (2009). Cultural and political encounters with Chinese language in early modern Japan : the case of Kinoshita Jun'an (1621-1698), Thesis (D.Phil.), University of Oxford
- Hiroyuki Takeuchi and Hideto Ueno (1991), 木下順庵 / Kinoshita jun'an. Tokyo: .
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.) (1979), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press.
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