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Fujiwara Seika was a Confucian scholar of the late 16th to early 17th centuries.
 
Fujiwara Seika was a Confucian scholar of the late 16th to early 17th centuries.
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He met with a [[Joseon|Korean]] embassy at [[Daitoku-ji]] in [[1590]], and is said to have learned much about [[Neo-Confucianism]] from them.<ref>Doyoung Park, "A New Perspective on hte Korean Embassy (Chôsen Tsûshinshi): The View from the Intellectuals in Tokugawa Japan," ''Studies in Asia'' Series IV, 3:1 (2013), 13-14.</ref>
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He met with a [[Joseon|Korean]] embassy at [[Daitoku-ji]] in [[1590]], and is said to have learned much about [[Neo-Confucianism]] from them.<ref>Doyoung Park, "A New Perspective on the Korean Embassy (Chôsen Tsûshinshi): The View from the Intellectuals in Tokugawa Japan," ''Studies in Asia'' Series IV, 3:1 (2013), 13-14.</ref>
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He later was one of the main teachers of [[Hayashi Razan]], the first of a series of [[Hayashi family]] Confucian advisors to the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]].
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He later was one of the main teachers of [[Hayashi Razan]], the first of a series of [[Hayashi clan]] Confucian advisors to the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]].
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Seika is also said to have played a significant role in the development of the ''kunten'' marks used to render ''[[kanbun]]'' (Classical Chinese) legible for Japanese readers. This came after he spent some time in [[Yamakawa]] in [[Satsuma province]], where he studied the ''Bunshi-ten'' marks developed by [[Nanpo Bunshi]].<ref>"[http://www.shuseikan.jp/culture/culture23.html Satsunan gakuha]," ''Shimazu-ke ga hagukunda bunka'', Shôkoshûseikan official website. </ref>
    
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