Itō Jinsai

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Portrait of Itō Jinsai from a work by Inoue Tetsujirō , 1902

Itō Jinsai ( Japanese 伊藤 仁 斎 ; born August 30, 1627 in Kyōto ; † April 5, 1705 ibid) was a Japanese Confucian philosopher.

Life

Itō was born into a merchant family in Kyoto. Instead of medicine, as his family wanted, he studied Confucianism at the school of Matsunaga Segiko . He belonged to the school of Kogaku (school of old erudition), which sought the original context and meaning of Confucius' conversations and rejected later interpretations and terminology, and founded the Kogigaku trend within them .

In 1666 his main work Gomō jigi ( 語 孟 字 義 ) appeared; in the essay Dōjimon ( 童子 問 , 1673) he dealt with Buddhism and Taoism. From the 1680s, Itō was established as a scholar and teacher. His son Itō Tōgai created an extensive collection of all of his father's writings and an extensive biography.

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Individual evidence

  1. 伊藤 仁 斎 二 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed November 30, 2011 (Japanese).