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− | * ''Born: [[1569]]'' | + | * ''Birth: [[1569]]'' |
− | * ''Died: [[1633]]'' | + | * ''Death: [[1633]]'' |
| + | * ''Other name: Konchiin Sûden'' |
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− | Sûden was a [[Zen Buddhism|Zen]] monk who acted as a religious advisor to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and as a result played a notable role in that sphere in the foundation of the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] shogunate. Along with other scholars he drafted the Buke shohatto for Tokugawa Ieyasu in [[1615]] and read the document before an assembly of daimyô at Fushimi that same year. He was also known as Konchiin Sûden. | + | |
| + | Sûden was a [[Zen Buddhism|Zen]] monk who acted as a religious advisor to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and as a result played a notable role in that sphere in the foundation of the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] shogunate. Along with other scholars he drafted the [[Buke Shohatto]] for Tokugawa Ieyasu in [[1615]] and read the document before an assembly of daimyô at Fushimi that same year. In [[1612]] he was tasked with composing a letter to the governor of New Spain inviting Spanish trade. At Ieyasu’s funeral in [[1616]] he acted as an overseer of ceremonies, along with [[Tenkai]] and [[Bonshun]]. |
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