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*''Born: [[1627]]''
*''Died: [[1705]]''
*''Japanese'': [[伊藤]] 仁斎 ''(Itou Jinsai)''

Itô Jinsai was a prominent [[Confucianism|Confucian]] scholar of the [[Edo period]]. Though initially a devotee of the [[Zhu Xi]] [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucianist]] school of thought, he later turned to advocating a greater focus on the original Confucian teachings of [[Confucius]] and [[Mencius]] themselves.

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==References==
*David Lu, ''Japan: A Documentary History'', ME Sharpe (1997), 245.

[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
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