Hirose Tanso (広瀬淡窓) (22 May 1782 in Hita – 28 November 1856) was a

neo-Confucian Neo-Confucianism (, often shortened to ''lǐxué'' 理學, literally "School of Principle") is a moral, ethical, and metaphysical Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism, and originated with Han Yu (768–824) and Li Ao (772–841) in th ...

scholar, teacher and Japanese writer. Born into a wealthy merchant family, Hirose founded in 1801 the Academy Neo-Confucian Kangien (咸宜園). In Hirose's lifetime, the school was attended by 3,000 young Japanese, and until 1871 by more than 4,000 young men came from all over Japan. Among its graduates were

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and

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, doctors of traditional Chinese medicine and medicine of Western Europe, politicians and administrators, traders, farmers and samurai.Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell: The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. 2. Auflage. Princeton University Press, 1988, ,
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/ref> Hirose published an anthology of his poems in 1837, a three-volume edition of his writings was published as TANSO Zenshu (淡窓全集) between 1925 and 1927.

Louis Frédéric Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, also known as Louis Frédéric or Louis-Frédéric (1923–1996), was a French scholar, art historian, writer and editor. He was a specialist in the cultures of Asia, especially India and Japan. Early life Louis-Fré ...

: ''Japan Encyclopedia''. Harvard University Press, 2002 (original title: ''Japan, dictionary and civilization'', translation by Käthe Roth), ,
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External links

* Marleen Kassel: ''Tokugawa Confucian Education: The Kangien Academy of Hirose Tansō (1782–1856)''. SUNY Press, 1996,
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References

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