Kanshitsu Gakko

Background

Gakko Kanshitsu was born in 1548 in the old Japanese province of Hizen in the area of Nagasaki Prefecture. Gakko Kanshitsu’s original surname was Tatara.

Career

Gakko Kanshitsu enjoyed the confidence of Iyeyasu Tokugawa, who was the founder of the Tokugawa clan and was best known for establishing the Tokugawa shogunate, the last military regime of its kind in Japanese history. Iyeyasu Tokugawa appointed Gakko Kanshitsu the 9th head of the Ashikaga School in Tochigi Prefecture and commissioned him to publish Kōshi kego and Jōkan Seiyō (text books of Confucianism).

In 1612, Gakko Kanshitsu retired to the Enkōji Temple in Shizuoka.

He passed away in 1612. Many of his manuscripts were preserved in the Ashikaga School.

Works

• book

  • Kōshi kego

    (Kōshi kego is a chronicle of the sayings and doings of C...)

  • Jōkan Seiyō

    (Jōkan Seiyō represents a book about political morals. Th...)