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Kaibara Ekken

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Gender Female
Death309 years ago
Date of birth December 17,1630
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Fukuoka
Japan
Date of died October 5,1714
DiedHizen Province
Children Kaibara Yoshifuru
BooksCultivating Ch'i: A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way of Health
Yojokun: Japanese Secret of Good Health
The Philosophy of Qi: The Record of Great Doubts
Onna Daigaku
Yojokun: Life Lessons from a Samurai
The Way of Contentment
Onna Daigaku: A Treasure Box of Women's Learning
NationalityJapanese
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Kaibara Ekken Life story


Kaibara Ekken or Ekiken, also known as Atsunobu, was a Japanese Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist. Kaibara was born into a family of advisors to the daimyō of Fukuoka Domain in Chikuzen Province. He accompanied his father to Edo in 1648, and was sent in 1649 to Nagasaki to study Western science.

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