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[[File:Ninomiya-kinjiro.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Statue of Ninomiya Sontoku at [[Odawara castle]]]]
[[File:Ninomiya-kinjiro.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Statue of Ninomiya Sontoku at [[Odawara castle]]]]
*''Born: [[1787]]''
*''Born: [[1787]]''
*''Died: [[1856]]''
*''Died: [[1856]]/10/20''
*''Other Names'': 金次郎 ''(Kinjirô)''
*''Japanese'': [[二宮]]尊徳 ''(Ninomiya Sontoku)''
*''Japanese'': [[二宮]]尊徳 ''(Ninomiya Sontoku)''
Among his writings are some which address the so-called "three teachings" ([[Shinto]], [[Buddhism]], and [[Confucianism]]) and their blending together such that they are inseparably intertwined. He describes the three writing "Shinto is the Way which provides the foundation of the country; Confucianism is the Way which provides for governing the country; and Buddhism is the Way which provides for governing one's mind."<ref>R. Tsunoda, Wm. de Bary, D. Keene (eds.), ''Sources of the Japanese Tradition'', Columbia University Press (1990), 584-585.</ref> He then compares one's learning in these three teachings to one taking a pill; he writes of how a friend drew a diagram, a pie chart, labeling one half Shinto, one quarter Buddhism, and one quarter Confucianism, to which Sontoku replied that real medicine is all blended together such that the separate ingredients are indistinguishable.
Among his writings are some which address the so-called "three teachings" ([[Shinto]], [[Buddhism]], and [[Confucianism]]) and their blending together such that they are inseparably intertwined. He describes the three writing "Shinto is the Way which provides the foundation of the country; Confucianism is the Way which provides for governing the country; and Buddhism is the Way which provides for governing one's mind."<ref>R. Tsunoda, Wm. de Bary, D. Keene (eds.), ''Sources of the Japanese Tradition'', Columbia University Press (1990), 584-585.</ref> He then compares one's learning in these three teachings to one taking a pill; he writes of how a friend drew a diagram, a pie chart, labeling one half Shinto, one quarter Buddhism, and one quarter Confucianism, to which Sontoku replied that real medicine is all blended together such that the separate ingredients are indistinguishable.
He was granted the official position of ''fushinyaku'' (public works official). He died on [[1856]]/10/20 and was posthumously granted the [[Court rank|Junior Fourth Rank]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 258.</ref>
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