Born into a low-ranking samurai family, his father was Shiraishi Mozaemon (Yoshifusa), his mother was from the Yamashita clan, and he had many siblings. His real name was 国倫, but he also went by the pen names 鳩渓, 風来山人 (his principal literary pen name), 天竺浪人 and 福内鬼外. He is most well known by the name `Gennai`, how.....
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(from the article `Japan`) ...studies`); it contained a dialectical method of thought that, rejecting the fixed `way` of orthodox Neo-Confucianism, saw the world as being ...
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