Background
Soin Shirai was born about 1630 in Japan.
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Soin Shirai
Edit Profile索因 白井
also known as
Hakuun-Sanjin
Education
Soin Shirai studied Shintoism.
Career
Soin Shirai was a physician of the Ikkei school by profession. He assailed contemporary Shinto scholars who explained the volumes on the mythical age of Japan in Nihon Shoki in terms of Confucianism and Buddhism.
