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*''Born: [[1624]]''
*''Died: [[1705]]''

Kitamura Kigin is known as the compiler of the first major printed collection of commentaries on the ''[[Tale of Genji]]''.

He was a student of [[Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu]].

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==References==
*Rebeckah Clements, "Speaking in Tongues? Daimyo, Zen Monks, and Spoken Chinese in Japan, 1661–1711," ''The Journal of Asian Studies'' Vol. 76, No. 3 (August) 2017: 605.

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