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*''Birth: [[1600]]/10/12''
*''Death: [[1682]]/4/17''
*''Other Names'': 之瑜 ''([[Chinese name|ming]]: Zhīyú, J: Shiyu)'', 魯嶼 ''(zi: Lǔyǔ, J: Royo)'', 楚嶼 ''(Chǔyǔ)'', 文恭 ''(posthumous name: Wéngōng)''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': [[朱]]舜水 ''(Zhū Shùnsuǐ / Shu Shunsui)''
Zhu Shunsui was a [[Ming loyalist]] who became a prominent Confucian scholar in Japan, after fleeing there following the fall of the [[Ming Dynasty]].
Zhu was originally from the town of Yuyao in [[Zhejiang province]]. During the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu journeyed to Japan four times; he also met with [[Coxinga]] and attempted to secure Japanese aid for combatting the [[Qing Dynasty|Qing]], but was ultimately unsuccessful.
He settled in [[Nagasaki]] in [[1659]], and came to live together with [[Ando Seian|Andô Seian]]<!--安東省庵-->, a Confucian scholar in service to [[Yanagawa han]] ([[Chikugo province]]). Shunsui later became a scholar in the service to [[Tokugawa Mitsukuni]], lord of [[Mito han]], and played a significant role in the birth and development of [[Mitogaku]] (the Mito school of historical philosophy). His students included [[Kinoshita Jun'an]]<!--木下順庵--> and [[Asaka Tanpaku]]<!--安積澹泊--> Impressed with his scholarship and service, Mitsukuni granted Zhu a posthumous name, Wéngōng (J: ''Monkyô''). Shunsui was his scholarly pseudonym (C: ''hào'', J: ''gô'').
He died in [[1682]] at the age of 83.
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9C%B1%E8%88%9C%E6%B0%B4?dic=bijyutsu Zhu Shunsui]," ''Bijutsu jinmei jiten'' 美術人名辞典, Shibunkaku.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9C%B1%E8%88%9C%E6%B0%B4?dic=nihonjinmei&oid=60232890 Zhu Shunsui]," ''Digital-ban Nihon jinmei daijiten'' デジタル版 日本人名大辞典, Kodansha 2009.
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