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* ''Born: [[1569]]''

* ''Birth: [[1569]]''

* ''Died: [[1633]]''

* ''Death: [[1633]]''

* ''Other name: Konchiin Sûden''

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.

 

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. In [[1612]] he was tasked with composing a letter to the governor of New Spain inviting Spanish trade. At Ieyasu’s funeral in [[1616]] he acted as an overseer of ceremonies, along with [[Tenkai]] and [[Bonshun]].

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