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* ''Born: [[1569]]''
* ''Died: [[1633]]''
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.
[[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]