Kaibara Town Hall02 1920
Kaibara may refer to: * Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714), a Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher and botanist * Kaibara, Hyōgo was a town located in Hikami District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 10,105 and a density of 312.56 persons per km². The total area was 32.33 km². On November 1, 2004, Kaibara, along with the ...

Kaibara Ekken
__NOTOC__ or Ekiken, also known as Atsunobu (篤信), was a Japanese Neo-Confucianism, Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist. Kaibara was born into a family of advisors to the ''daimyō'' of Fukuoka Domain in Chikuzen Province (modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture). He accompanied his father to Edo in 1648, and was sent in 1649 to Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Nagasaki to study Western science. At his father's urging, he continued his studies in Nagasaki as a rōnin from 1650 through 1656. He then re-entered service to Kuroda, which led to his continuing studies in Kyoto. After his father's death in 1665, he returned to Fukuoka.Yonemoto, Marcia. (2003). ''Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868).'' p. 49. Kaibara's two most significant contributions to Japanese culture were the study of nature based on a blend of Western natural science and Neo-Confucianism, and the translation of the complex writings of Neo-Confucianism into vernacular ...
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