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He left China and arrived in [[Nagasaki]] for the first time in [[1642]]. For the following two years, he spent time in Nagasaki, [[Quang Nam]] (Vietnam), and [[Ayutthaya]] (Thailand), among other places, seeking aid against the Manchu threat. In [[1644]], as [[Beijing]] fell, he gave up, settling more permanently in Japan. In Nagasaki, he came to live together with [[Ando Seian|Andô Seian]]<!--安東省庵-->, a Confucian scholar in service to [[Yanagawa han]] ([[Chikugo province]]).  

He left China and arrived in [[Nagasaki]] for the first time in [[1642]]. For the following two years, he spent time in Nagasaki, [[Quang Nam]] (Vietnam), and [[Ayutthaya]] (Thailand), among other places, seeking aid against the Manchu threat. In [[1644]], as [[Beijing]] fell, he gave up, settling more permanently in Japan. In Nagasaki, he 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), and in the Mito project of the ''[[Dai Nihon Shi]]''. 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'').

Shunsui later became a scholar in the service to [[Tokugawa Mitsukuni]], lord of [[Mito han]], and took up residence within the domain's [[daimyo yashiki| ''naka yashiki'' mansion]] in the Hongô area of [[Edo]] (today part of the Faculty of Agriculture campus of the [[University of Tokyo]]). Zhu played a significant role in the birth and development of [[Mitogaku]] (the Mito school of historical philosophy), and in the Mito project of the ''[[Dai Nihon Shi]]''. 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, in [[Edo]].

He died in [[1682]] at the age of 83, in [[Edo]].

*"[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.

*"[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.

*[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 59.

*[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 59.

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