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Confucianism entered Japan during the [[Nara period]], if not earlier, as the Japanese state incorporated Chinese governmental technologies & philosophies. The [[Neo-Confucianism]] of [[Zhu Xi]] and others was introduced to Japan by [[Zen]] monks in the [[Kamakura period]].<ref name=craig>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 85-86.</ref>

Confucianism entered Japan during the [[Nara period]], if not earlier, as the Japanese state incorporated Chinese governmental technologies & philosophies. The [[Neo-Confucianism]] of [[Zhu Xi]] and others was introduced to Japan by [[Zen]] monks in the [[Kamakura period]].<ref name=craig>[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Japanese Civilization'', Second Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 85-86.</ref>

However, it was not until the [[Edo period]] that Confucianism & Neo-Confucianism became more thoroughly investigated and more widely adopted.<ref name=craig/> Confucian scholars such as [[Nakae Toju|Nakae Tôju]], [[Yamazaki Ansai]], and [[Ito Jinsai|Itô Jinsai]], among many others, wrote numerous treatises on political, societal, and cosmological theory, and Confucian scholars such as [[Arai Hakuseki]], [[Hayashi Razan]], and other members of the [[Hayashi clan]], became fixtures at the shogun's court as some of his top advisors; many daimyô maintained Confucian scholars as advisors as well.

However, it was not until the [[Edo period]] that Confucianism & Neo-Confucianism became more thoroughly investigated and more widely adopted.<ref name=craig/> Confucian scholars such as [[Nakae Toju|Nakae Tôju]], [[Yamazaki Ansai]], and [[Ito Jinsai|Itô Jinsai]], among many others, wrote numerous treatises on political, societal, and cosmological theory, and Confucian scholars such as [[Arai Hakuseki]], [[Hayashi Razan]], and other members of the [[Hayashi clan]], became fixtures at the shogun's court as some of his top advisors; many daimyô maintained Confucian scholars as advisors as well. Neo-Confucianism in the vein of Zhu Xi became the philosophical orthodoxy in Japan beginning in [[1790]].<ref>Craig, 88.</ref>

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