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20: 126: 141: 194:); but modern scholarship argues that it was actually prepared by other hands. Although the genesis of the work remains unchallenged, the oldest extant copy (1733) ends with the lines "as related by our teacher Ekiken Kaibara" and the publisher's colophon states that the text was written from lectures of our teacher Kaibara." 109:
Kaibara's two most significant contributions to Japanese culture were the study of nature based on a blend of Western natural science and Neo-Confucianism, and the translation of the complex writings of Neo-Confucianism into vernacular Japanese. His synthesis of Confucian ideas and Western science
182:(also known as Chu Hsi) into an easy "self-help" manuals. As an educator and philosopher, it appears that Kaibara's main goal in life was to further the process of weaving Neo-Confucianism into Japanese culture. In this context, he is best known for such books as 557: 106:
from 1650 through 1656. He then re-entered service to Kuroda, which led to his continuing studies in Kyoto. After his father's death in 1665, he returned to Fukuoka.
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Kaibara was known for his manuals of behavior, such as changing his Confucian ethical system based on the teachings of
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to study Western science. At his father's urging, he continued his studies in Nagasaki as a
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Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868).
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Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868).
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and focused on the "natural law". Kaibara became as famous in Japan as people such as
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Bronze Statue of Kaibara Ekken at his gravesite (Kinryū-Temple, Fukuoka-City, Japan)
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when it came to science. He advanced the study of botany in Japan when he wrote
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National Archives of Japan, illustrated scrolls plus text by Kaibara Ekiken:
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Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Personalities : Kaibara Ekiken
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Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan.
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Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan.
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de Bary, Wm. Theodore; Keene, Donald; et al., eds. (2002).
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Japanese Confucianist Philosopher, Pre-Linnaean botanist
147:. Book of healthy way written by Kaibara Ekken in 1713. 344: 342: 340: 337: 76:Kaibara was born into a family of advisors to the 565: 436:Cranmer-Byng, L. and S.A. Kapadia, eds. (1914). 427:Kaibara, Ekiken and Shingoro Takaishi. (1905). 249:(The Book of Life-nourishing Principles), 1713. 47: 399: 544:guide to Ama-no-Hashidate, text by Eiken ( 480:Berkeley: University of California Press. 299: 139: 124: 18: 558:"Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works" 171:. The 19th-century German Japanologist 566: 528:guide to Itsukushima, text by Ekiken ( 514:guide to Mt. Yoshino, text by Ekiken ( 118:, and reflect similar concerns to the 52:, December 17, 1630 – October 5, 1714) 542:Tanngo no kuni Amano hashidate no zu, 282: 280: 175:called him the "Aristotle of Japan". 134:National Museum of Nature and Science 362:(hosted by George Mason University) 13: 619:17th-century Japanese philosophers 604:Japanese writers of the Edo period 599:18th-century Japanese philosophers 376:"Regions - IIAS Newsletter Online" 303:The Invention of Religion in Japan 277: 197: 151:Kaibara's science was confined to 14: 650: 491: 237:(Medicinal herbs of Japan), 1709. 98:in 1648, and was sent in 1649 to 94:). 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Japanese name
surname
Neo-Confucianist
philosopher
botanist
daimyō
Fukuoka Domain
Chikuzen Province
Fukuoka Prefecture
Edo
Nagasaki
rōnin
Shinto
State Shinto
Kokugaku

National Museum of Nature and Science

Botany
Materia medica
Charles Darwin
plants
Philipp Franz von Siebold
Zhu Xi
Confucian Shinto


The Invention of Religion in Japan
ISBN

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