Yamazaki Ansai
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Yamazaki Ansai was a Japanese philosopher and scholar. He began his career as a Buddhist monk, but eventually came to follow the teachings of Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi. He combined Neo-Confucian ideas with
Yamazaki Ansai
Fukko Shinto
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Fukko Shintō is a movement within Shinto that was advocated by Japanese scholars during the Edo period. It attempted to reject Buddhist and Confucian influence on Shinto and return to a native Japanes
Yamazaki Ansai
…circles (Yoshida, Ise), and thereby making it available for future generations to freely study and interpret. In time, however, the rise of Kokugaku and Fukko Shintō turned Suika Shinto into a target of criticism until it gradually faded from prominence; it is nonetheless credited with having paved the way for these…
Hirata Atsutane