Cinema hit Jun'an

Cinema hit Jun'an

Kinoshita Jun'an ( Japanese 木 下 順 庵 , real name: Kinoshita Sadamasa ( 木 下 貞 幹 ), other scholarly name : 錦 里 ; born July 22, 1621 in Kyoto ; died January 23, 1699 in Edo ) was a Japanese Confucianist of the early Edo -Time who taught the Neo-Confucianism of Zhu Xi .

life and work

Kinoshita studied under the Confucianist Matsunaga Sekigo ( 松 永 尺 五 ; 1592–1657), in turn a student of Fujiwara Seika . After a short stay in Edo, he returned to Kyoto, where he worked for the next twenty years. Then he was invited to Kanazawa and took up his work under Maeda Tsunari, the prince of the Maeda clan .

In 1682 he was hired by the shogunate as a teacher of Confunzianism and as a private teacher of the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi . The Kinri bunshū ( 錦 里 文集 ; 10 volumes) is one of his works .

Kinoshita's ten most important students, the Mokumon Jittetsu ( 木門 十 哲 ), are:

1. Sakakibara Kōshū ( 榊 原 篁 洲 ; 1656–1706), worked in Wakayama ,
2. Arai Hakuseki (1657-1725), adviser to the Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu ,
3. Nambu Nanzan ( 南部 南山 ; 1658–1712), worked in Toyama for a branch of the Maeda clan ,
4. Muro Kyūsō ( 室 鳩 巣 ; 1658–1734), first served with the Maeda in Kanazawa, then the Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune ,
5. Amanomori Hōshū ( 雨森 芳 洲 ; 1668–1755), worked for the daimyo of Tsushima ,
6. Miyake Kanran ( 三 宅 観 瀾 ; 1674–1728), worked on Tokugawa Mitsukuni's historical work Dai Nihon-shi ,
7. Hattori Kansai ( 服 部 寛 斎 ; 1675–1721), work for Tokugawa Ienobu ,
8. Matsuura Kashō ( 松浦 霞 沼 ; 1676–1728), worked like Amanomori Tsushima,
9. Gion Nankai (1676–1751), worked like Sakakibara in Wakayama,
10. Mukai Sōshū ( 向 井 滄洲 ; 1666–1731).

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kinoshita Jun'an . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia . Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Illustration from the "Kinri bunshū".

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Kinoshita is the family name, Jun'an the first name.