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Itō Jinsai

Itō Jinsai
Itō Jinsai, Japanese philosopher (d. 1705)

Itō Jinsai , who also went by the pen name Keisai, was a Japanese Confucian philosopher. He is considered to be one of the most influential Confucian scholars of seventeenth century Japan, and the Tokugawa period (1600–1868) generally, his teachings flourishing especially in Kyoto and the Kansai area through the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate.

30 August 1627

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