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(1648-1652).'' was a

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monk who studied classics under Ishō at

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. Keian accompanied the 1466 mission to the Ming court in China. In

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, he was favored by the

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.Ponsonby-Fane, p. 244. Keian delayed his return to Japan until 1475. Keian was the first to translate

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's ''Collective Commentaries on the Great Learning'' into Japanese. Keian founded Satsunan-gakuha, a neo-confucianist school in Kagoshima.Iwao, Seiichi ''et al.'' (2002)
''Dictionnaire historique du Japon'' (Vol. II)
p. 2376.

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* Iwao, Seiichi, Teizō Iyanaga, Susumu Ishii, Shōichirō Yoshida ''et al.'' (2002)
''Dictionnaire historique du Japon'' (Vol. I) (Vol. II).
Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose.
OCLC 51096469
* Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1962).
''Sovereign and Subject.''
Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. * Xinzhong Yao. (2005). ''An Introduction to Confucianism.'' Cambridge:

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