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*''Born: [[1658]]''
*''Died: [[1734]]''
*''Japanese'': 室鳩巣 ''(Muro Kyuusou)''
Muro Kyûsô was a [[Confucian]] scholar in service to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] during the reign of [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]].
A student of [[Kinoshita Jun'an]], he authored several significant works, including the ''Suruga-dai zatsuwa'' and the [[1703]] ''Akô Gijin Roku'', an account of the story of the [[47 Ronin]] published the same year as [[Kira Yoshinaka|Kira Yoshinaka's]] death. This is one of the earliest and most prominent primary sources relating these events, though historians have identified the text as containing numerous inaccuracies.
Muro was also involved in re-writing the Chinese text ''[[Six Courses in Morals]]'' to make it more accessible to Japanese readers. This rewritten version, entitled ''Rikuyu engi taii'' (六諭衍義大意), was then published in [[1722]] and distributed to a number of [[han|domains]], where it was reprinted yet again and circulated even more widely.
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==References==
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n98.
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*''Died: [[1734]]''
*''Japanese'': 室鳩巣 ''(Muro Kyuusou)''
Muro Kyûsô was a [[Confucian]] scholar in service to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] during the reign of [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]].
A student of [[Kinoshita Jun'an]], he authored several significant works, including the ''Suruga-dai zatsuwa'' and the [[1703]] ''Akô Gijin Roku'', an account of the story of the [[47 Ronin]] published the same year as [[Kira Yoshinaka|Kira Yoshinaka's]] death. This is one of the earliest and most prominent primary sources relating these events, though historians have identified the text as containing numerous inaccuracies.
Muro was also involved in re-writing the Chinese text ''[[Six Courses in Morals]]'' to make it more accessible to Japanese readers. This rewritten version, entitled ''Rikuyu engi taii'' (六諭衍義大意), was then published in [[1722]] and distributed to a number of [[han|domains]], where it was reprinted yet again and circulated even more widely.
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==References==
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 315n98.
<references/>
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
