Background
Kenzan Sugano was born in 1680 in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan.
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Kenzan Sugano
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also known as
Hikobe
Education
He studied under Jinsai Ito and Naokata Sato.
Career
Kenzan Sugano was a scholar of the Chutze school, he started the Kaihodo private school in Fukagawa, Edo, with a subsidy from the Shogunate. His school was the most well-known private school of Confucianism in Kanto as the Kaitokudo School, established several years later in Osaka, was in Kansai. Both schools operated until the Meiji Restoration (1868).
