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Kaibara Ekken or Ekiken (貝原 益軒, also known as Atsunobu (篤信), 1630 - October 5, 1714) was a Japanese Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist. Events 869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople Year 1714 ( MDCCXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Neo-Confucianism (/( is a form of Confucianism that was primarily developed during the Song Dynasty, but which can be traced back to Han Yu and Li Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life [1]

Ekken was born into a family of advisors to the daimyo of Fukuoka Domain in Chikuzen Province (modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture). The ( were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings The was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Hizen Province (in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture) Chikuzen (筑前国 Chikuzen no kuni was an old province of Japan in the area that is today part of Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyūshū, but without WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. He accompanied his father to Edo in 1648, and was sent in 1649 to Nagasaki to study Western science. literally bay - Door, " Estuary " edo once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the ( is the Capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan. At his father's urging, he continued his studies in Nagasaki as a ronin from 1650 through 1656. A was a Samurai with no lord or master during the Feudal period (1185–1868 of Japan. He then re-entered service to Kuroda, which led to his continuing studies in Kyoto. Kuroda (黒田 is a Japanese surname. People Aki Kuroda (黒田アキ or 黒田明比古 (born 1944 Japanese painter After his father's death in 1665, he returned to Fukuoka. [2]

Ekken was destined to introduce two great innovations towards the Tokugawa shogunate. The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the, and the, was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the Shoguns of One of such was the systematic study of nature based on Neo-Confucianism, which was the beginning of the empirical science in Japan. Ekken's second innovation was to translate the abstruse and forbidding philosophy of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism into the language of the ordinary Japanese. Confucianism ( is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of the fifth century B

Ekken's science was confined to Biology and focused on the "natural law". Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles Ekken became as famous in Japan as people such as Charles Darwin when it came to science. Charles Robert Darwin (February 12 1809 &ndash April 19 1882 was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all Species of life He advanced the study of botany in Japan when he wrote Yamato honzō, which was a seminal study of Japanese plants. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The Japanologist Philipp Franz von Siebold called him the "Aristotle of Japan. Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold ( February 17, 1796 in Würzburg - October 18, 1866 in Munich) was a German physician "[2]

Ekken was known for his manuals of behavior, such as changing his Confucian ethical system based on the teachings of Zhu Xi (also known as Chu Hsi) into an easy "self-help" manuals. Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (朱熹 born October 18, 1130, Yuxi, Fujian province China &ndash died April 23, 1200 Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (朱熹 born October 18, 1130, Yuxi, Fujian province China &ndash died April 23, 1200 As an educator and philosopher, it appears that Ekken's main goal in life was to further the process of weaving Neo-Confucianism into the very fabric of Japanese culture. In this context, his is best known for such books as Precepts for Children and Greater Learning for Women (Onna daigaku); 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. "[3]

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  1. ^ Kaibara Ekiken - Biography of Kaibara Ekiken
  2. ^ a b Yonemoto, Marcia. (2003). Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868). p. 49.
  3. ^ Ko, Dorothy et al. (2003). Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan. p. 199.
  4. ^ Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Personalities : Kaibara Ekiken
  5. ^ Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Personalities : Kaibara Ekiken
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  7. ^ Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Personalities : Kaibara Ekiken
  8. ^ Regions - IIAS Newsletter Online
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