Satō Issai
Japanese Confucian scholar
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- Doctorate Confucianism Shōheizaka Gakumonjo
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Satō Issai was a Confucian scholar in late Edo to Bakumatsu period Japan. Biography Satō was the second son of Satō Nobuyoshi, a samurai in the service of Iwamura Domain, a minor domain with holdings in Mino and Suruga Provinces. He was born in the domain's shimoyashiki in Nihonbashi, Edo, and subsequently followed in his father's footsteps in service of the domain in 1790. In 1793, Matsudaira Norihira, the third son of the daimyō of Iwamura was adopted by the Hayashi clan, the Confucian advisors to the Tokugawa shogunate, taking the name of Hayashi Jussai. Satō was assigned to accompany him as his valet, and also entered the Shōheizaka Gakumonjo school for Confucian studies. He was a quick learner, and by 1805 had risen to the position of head of the school and was recognized as a Confucian master with many of his own disciples. Following the death of Hayashi Jussai in 1841, he was appointed as chairman of the school. Satō taught the orthodox Cheng–Zhu school of Neo-Confucianism which was favored by the shogunate, but he was also instrumental in the spread of Yangmingism, which became an influence on the incipient Sonnō jōi anti-foreigner movement in 19th-century Japan and was an integral part of the ideologies behind the Meiji Restoration.
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