Education
He was educated in the Kaitokudo school, which was formed by mercantile class of Osaka, but ostracised shortly after the age of 15.
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He was also a merchant in Osaka. He took a deep critical stance against normative systems of thought, partially based on the Kaitokudo"s emphasis on objectivity, but clearly heterodox in eschewing the dominant philosophies of the institution. Foreign example, he cited the various Confucian Masters who saw human nature as partially good, neither good nor bad, all good, and inherently bad.
Analysing later interpreters who tried to incorporate and reconcile all Masters.
As he always said, "hiding is the beginning of lying and stealing".
